Candles burned on the tables and along the bar at our 1920s speakeasy party, which also had live music and a dessert bar.

Vintage cars and a brick speakeasy door

Two flat cutouts of vintage cars stood along a railing outside, one red and one white with Love the Journey painted on its spare tire. Behind the red car, the entrance was a brick front with a plain door, WANTED posters and a large print reading Repeal the 18th Amendment.

Flat cutout of a red vintage car along a railing at night, with a brick speakeasy front behind
Brick speakeasy front with a plain door, WANTED posters and a print reading Repeal the 18th Amendment
Lounge corner with a leather chesterfield chair, a round table, a gold wire screen and a bar behind
Dance floor facing a stage lit with red light and drapes, leather sofas in the foreground
Taper candles dripping wax in gold-painted bottles beside a red rose and a gold feather
Brass candelabra with three lit candles on a bar in front of shelves of bottles and glasses
Old photographs of the Jefferson Liquor Company and three women in 1920s dress propped in wooden crates on burlap

Leather chesterfields and stacks of old books

Inside, brown leather chesterfield chairs and sofas made small lounges, one in front of a backdrop printed with full bookshelves. Stacks of old books on the tables held red roses and black feathers, and taper candles dripped wax down gold-painted bottles.

Two brown leather chesterfield armchairs around a small wooden table in a curtained lounge
Pink and cream roses in a glass vase filled with pearls between two tea lights
Gold-framed Dessert bar sign beside a gold-painted bottle holding a lit candle
Wooden tables before a painted backdrop of women in white fur wraps and a man in a top hat
Stack of old books with a black feather and red flowers between candles, leather chairs blurred behind
Gold-framed Speakeasy Libations menu listing Bee's Knees, Mary Pickford and Mint Julep, with candles behind
Leather chesterfield sofas and coffee tables in front of a backdrop printed with bookshelves

Speakeasy Libations at the bar

A gold-framed menu headed Speakeasy Libations offered a Bee's Knees, a Mary Pickford and a Mint Julep. Old photographs leaned in wooden crates on burlap, one of them showing the Jefferson Liquor Company announcing Prohibition, and another crate held a sign reading Prohibition Ends Here, Drink Up. For Old Hollywood, guests posed on a red carpet outside the tent.

Framed sign reading First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you
Brass luggage cart holding wooden crates, old books and small photographs
Lit wooden crate topped with a bottle of red and pink roses, a feather and a candle
Sign reading Prohibition Ends Here Drink Up in a wooden crate draped with burlap
Flat cutout of a white and orange vintage car reading Love the Journey, along a railing at night

Photography by Angie Myers