One Saturday each year the Gordon Rugby Club in Sydney hosts Ladies Day, an annual tradition were the women of rugby (wives, mothers, sisters, daughters and friends) are celebrated and thanked for their contribution to the club and rugby community. I love the Gordon Rugby Club. My husband has played there for many years and through the club we have gained many life-long friends and I was more than happy to play ‘organiser’ this year (a move I regretted for just a minute at 2am the night before whilst icing cupcakes).
The planning took over my life for at least a month, hence the lack of posts lately, but Ladies Day has finally happened and it was a success.
The weather on Saturday was phenomenal and we had an absolute cracker of a day eating, drinking and partying! I thought that I’d share the day with you. Maybe you’re looking for party recipe inspiration, or idea’s for decorations or maybe you’d just like a squizz. Enjoy the pics.
We ate!
Pete Evan’s Pumpkin, Potato and Sage Fritters (found in his fantastic book My Party Canapes and Cocktails)
Lamb Meatballs
Ginger Chicken Cakes with Mango Mayo (found in Canapes by Eric Treuille and Victoria Blashford-Snell)
Brown Rice Salad (recipe to come)
Thai Beef Salad (recipe to come)
Fruit Skewers
Vanilla Cupcakes
Hummingbird Bakery’s Red Velvet Cupcakes
Choc Brownies with Salted Caramel Icing
Stephanie Alexander’s Apple, Ginger and Creme Fraiche cake
Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream
We ate... a lot!
We drank!
Thanks to The Willoughby Hotel our thirsts were quenched with gorgeous wines and bubbly!
Thanks to Willoughby Hotel
We were spoiled!
Thanks to some very generous sponsors our girls were spoilt and entertained. Giftbags supplied by Style Space Colour contained 2 of the latest CD’s from Sony Music, makeup from Face of Australia and gift vouchers from Frockaholics, Leona Edmiston, Reads Online, Osmen Furniture and Virgin Wines.
More sponsors came on board with great prizes including Revlon, Thalgo, Essie, De Costi’s, Osmen and Mantra Chatswood.
Martha Stewart's paper pom poms
Wine and dine
Antipasto platter
Lamb kofta's with hommus
Boxes of Thai Beef Salad and Brown Rice Salad
Choc bites with Salted Caramel Icing
Stephanie Alexander's Apple, Ginger and Creme Fraiche cake, fruit skewers and lollllllies!
Cupcakes and slices
Amazing singer Tim Bowen entertaining the ladies
Two of the gorgeous ladies
One of our gorgeous friends
and another little beauty!
Goodie bags including Face of Australia products, CD's from Sony, vouchers from Leona Edmiston and Frockaholics
Bring on Gordon Ladies Day 2013
Huge thanks to everyone who helped on the day (especially my beautiful mama) and to our wonderful and extremely generous sponsors.
Bring on Gordon Ladies Day 2013!
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Well done gorgeous girl! What an amazing event you put on – I wish I could have been there, the food looked absolutely delicious. A xxx
Thank you Amy! I would have loved to have had you there. We will have to meet up at some stage soon xxx
What a gorgeous day out! You should be so proud of yourself, you did a wonderful job Steph!
When I was growing up I had a friend whose father was the Club Secretary. Every Saturday he’d take us to Gordon Rugby where we’d watch every game from the 4ths to the 1sts. I loved it. I’d be given a pie and a sausage roll and then a couple of bucks to spend on lollies. Fabulous fun! Oh, and then there was the rugby of course. xx
Amazing day Stefy! x