The Tea Party Society was established in January of 2006 by three clever tea sippers. Since then the klan of awesome people have dedicated their time and effort to the member specific society. Outsiders, as they may be refered to, will be accepted into the society with proper request of the first tier proprietors, as well as the second tier affiliates. Consider yourself lucky to recieve a formal invitation to the Tea Party Society synod.
As for the members, well done, you have shown yourselves to be faithful to the makers of tea and considerate of those around you as long as they respect tea. If any members choose not to abide by the rules set forth (refer to Tea Party Society handbook v.1) they will become less than dregs to the current members and possibly shunned by those who have heard via gossip.