With This Ring: March 23, 2018
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New Age STAG PARTIES<br />
Guess what guys – dodgy pub<br />
crawls, tacky strip clubs and stupid<br />
stunts are all old hat. The new<br />
age bachelor party is all about<br />
awesome activities with your real<br />
mates and enjoying some good fun<br />
with a bit of class and maturity.<br />
Some modern bachelor parties<br />
even invite the bride and her<br />
bachelorettes along too!<br />
Craft beer has come of age, so why not<br />
choose a tasting at a local craft brewery or<br />
outlet with some good food too. Breweries<br />
often offer great “dude food” matched<br />
with a pint of your favourite cold beer.<br />
Test your nerve with a big ticket activity<br />
like sky diving or a tandem sky dive.<br />
Maybe give it a go on a flight simulator<br />
or race track or take your friends to an<br />
escape room experience at Escape Artists<br />
and test your ability to solve puzzles and<br />
crack codes as a team!<br />
Enjoy a local gig or music festival,<br />
book tickets for a show, a favourite<br />
international artist on tour or a comedy<br />
club evening. Spend a day at the races<br />
in town or out in the country or enjoy<br />
yourselves at a sporting spectacle like Big<br />
Bash, ODI or rugby sevens.<br />
Get away from it all on a traditional<br />
fishing, camping or road trip, or book<br />
a bach by the beach, hire a jet ski, learn<br />
to sail or have a surf lesson or try a new<br />
activity like paddle boarding.<br />
Challenge your sidekicks to golf, a car<br />
rally, an “Amazing Race”, a poker evening<br />
or a mini Olympics with quirky activities,<br />
sports and challenges. BUT whatever you<br />
decide to do, make it fun, play it safe, be<br />
sure it is legal and take some photos to<br />
look back on later!<br />
<strong>With</strong> <strong>This</strong> <strong>Ring</strong> 89<br />
Afternoon<br />
DELIGHT<br />
A sugar-licious bridal shower tea party is in<br />
vogue, romantic, elegant and easy on the bank<br />
balance, so what’s not to like for your girly<br />
guests of all ages?<br />
Picture a range of beautiful teas, served in beautiful fine<br />
china cups, with dainty finger food displayed on tiered<br />
cake plates and delicate platters.<br />
Tea foods won’t break the budget and you can prepare<br />
many of the selections yourselves – remember New<br />
Zealand has a long tradition of “bringing a plate” so it’s<br />
perfectly acceptable to continue the custom.<br />
You will want to feature light, delicate sandwiches<br />
with dainty fillings and crusts removed, little vol au vent<br />
cases oozing with savoury flavour, cute little quiches and<br />
tasty bites on sticks or in tiny cones and perhaps some<br />
international finger foods like mini samosas, sushi or<br />
arancini balls.<br />
Follow up the savoury with sweet treats – cookies,<br />
cakes, featherlight biscuits, chocolate-dipped<br />
strawberries, iced muffins, buttered loaves, sugared<br />
almonds, praline, fudge and handmade chocolates.<br />
Compliment your beautiful edibles with a menu of<br />
fragrant teas; traditional, Earl Grey, herbal, and fruit<br />
flavours, served hot or ice cold. Make them by the cup, in<br />
a chilled glass or in a silver teapot. Go fancy with sugar<br />
cubes and tongs, petite milk jugs and silver spoons.<br />
Use beautiful table linen that is genuinely vintage or<br />
evokes the elegance of the past, tie napkins with pretty<br />
ribbon and decorate the table with posies of tea roses.<br />
Best of all you can have your tea party at the traditional<br />
time of 4pm, make it a morning event, or serve it as a<br />
light and languid ladies lunch to sit over and savour well<br />
into the afternoon!
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