Last week was comfort food week at our house. 🙂 I wasn’t planning on it, but with the 8 inches of snow that fell on Monday followed by the HH getting a major head cold {that lasted 5 days!} and pretty much parking himself in bed, it just sort of happened.
Oddly enough though, if I had to describe last week in one word…. that word would have been C O Z Y. Cold outside, warm inside and zero sense of urgency to leave the house. {Although The Girl and I did have an adventure day, but that was only to give the HH some quiet time}.
One can never go wrong with Ritz Cracker Chicken.
Or a heaping dish of pork fried rice.
The best chocolate chip cookies on the planet earth. I found the recipe years ago and can’t imagine there is a better one out there for chocolate chip cookies.
Turkey dinner. I think we are now down to 2 frozen turkey breasts in the freezer. {We bought 6 last October when market Basket had them on sale for $0.99 a pound.} I’ll be sad when they’re gone but I’m pretty sure Market Basket will have the same deal next fall and we can stock up again. I think 6 was the perfect amount to by for our family size.
Oh, and I just want to give you a heads up now, so you’ll be prepared for next Thanksgiving….. Make a batch of Cranberry Apple Jam for your pantry. Mark my words…. after serving all of our turkey dinners this past winter with a side of the cranberry apple jam, I will never by a can of that jellied cranberry sauce again. Seriously, this jam rocks. You need it.
Leftover turkey means two things: Turkey casserole with a mashed potato topping, and….
Homemade turkey soup with homemade bacon and cheese biscuits. Yum Yum Yum.
Side note: Does this look like your mother in her late 20’s, maybe 30’s even late 40’s if the artist was trying really hard for the youthful mom angle? Anywho, if this painting does resemble your mother and you are looking for a unique mother’s day gift, you can find this one of a kind painting at Cape Ann Auction & Estate Sales in Gloucester, MA.
You’re welcome. 🙂
And last but not least… Check it out! The Girl and I spotted my wedding dishes at Beverly Bootstaps in Beverly, MA. Someone in the area must have had the exact same set and decided to finally get rid of them. {Mine are almost 25 years old!}
How funny is that? I remember having those giant soup bowls {seriously, who eats 4 cups of soup at one time!?} but I didn’t go home with any of them. Why? Because I still have a cupboard full of the same dinner and salad plates {that my husband won’t let me get rid of}. At this rate, we will STILL be eating off those dishes when we are 70. You just can’t break those suckers. Trust me, I’ve tried. 😉
Do you still have your wedding dishes? Or your grandmother’s china? Do brides these days still request plate settings? Curious minds want to know.
Have a great Monday everyone and stay warm.
~Mavis
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Kari says
I will never understand how you can eat mashed potatoes without gravy. 🙂 Your meals look good. Thanks for the ideas!
Mavis Butterfield says
Sometimes I put ketchup on them. 🙂
Lace Faerie says
Looks tasty. Even better with a dollop of sour cream on top!
Sheila says
Hi Mavis, yes I still have my everyday wedding china, my formal China, my everyday glasses and my crystal as well as both my grandmothers formal China and silver! Do I use any of them? …. that would be a big negative lol! I just can’t seem to part with any of it! I do have my crystal displayed ,but the rest is packed away!
I don’t think most brides register for place settings like we all did back in the day. I’m sure some do ,but more and more when I get invitations the brides are registered at places like Anthropologie, bed bath and beyond and target!
Pippa says
I have (and use) my great great grandmother’s china set – from the late 1800s!. It was passed down to me with all pieces intact. Lovingly used for all holidays throughout the years.
chickengrandma says
I’m 66 years old and still have my grandmother’s china. I use it for holidays. But neither of my daughters want the two other sets of dishes from my grandmother.For the holidays, I wash those dishes by hand and not in the dishwasher. Maybe that is why they are not popular with the “younger” ones.
Anne in VA says
I’m 40-something and grew up with my grandma using her silver quite often. She passed it along to me and I use it when we have friends over for supper. There’s nothing more inviting than a beautifully set table with fresh flowers. We got dishwasher safe china when we got married about 15 years ago. Good thinking Lenox!! We have every day dishes and utensils, but there’s just something special about using the good stuff! I’m terribly old fashioned and so are most of our friends. Several of them have gorgeous hand painted china that their relatives painted. It is a hand-wash only thing and makes me nervous to even eat on it at someone else’s house. What if I drop it?? Eeek!!
I don’t think young couples today register for china. I haven’t seen that kind of thing on a bridal registry in years.
Gina says
Great looking meals this week! I have a turkey in the freezer that I need to make. Thanks for the reminder. I also MUST try that cranberry apple combo. Mmmm. Sounds great!
I registered at the local main street jeweler for my wedding dishes. I was out of the norm in 1985 as I registered for stoneware (Noritake Sunset Mesa) instead of china. Most of my friends were registering for china or both but never just stoneware. I still use them as my everyday dishes.
Couples these days aren’t registering for dishes and that makes me sad. Even though mine are stoneware, I still hope to pass them down one day to a granddaughter or grandson- who might really be touched with the wedding gift of an old lady! I actually have a set of brown pottery dishes received from my husband’s grandma when I took over making Thanksgiving dinner. She wanted me to have them since Thanksgiving at her house had always been eaten on those dishes. Those are sweet cherished memories and I was so touched that she wanted me to have the dishes.
Recently I was invited to a bridal shower where the couple had only registered for a honeymoon account. Like-they want no gifts except money. Ugh! I wondered what we would do at the shower and if the bride would just open cards and thank us all for such a “special gift” of the green. Yep. She did. I found it very odd not to be oohing and ahing over the latest tea towel or hand embroidered pillow cases. (Oh yea… those are a thing of the past also LOL.)
Some couples these days are only in it for the money. They are really missing out. As you become old married couples, memories of the gift’s giver from your wedding become more cherished than the gift itself.
Thanks for another great post. Happy Monday!
Jane says
Hello mavis, I choose Franciscanware in the Ivy pattern, 8 complete place settings and gravy boat as my mothers wedding gift to us. After 41 years of marriage some pieces have broken, disappeared, or (teacups) used for craft projects! They are still my favorite pattern, the dishes woven into the fabric of everyday life .
Karen L Andersen says
My Mother’s pattern was Ivy by Franciscan. Pretty much all pieces are chipped and have been discarded. At some point, I’d started to give her hand made ceramics which complemented that pattern. Upon clearing her estate, all of the ceramic pieces came to me!
E in Upstate NY says
Having downsized/closed houses for sale on both sides of family, I promised myself that I would NOT do that to my children. R I G H T! There are things that I just can’t rehome.
China however, isn’t one of them. What a formal dinner party I could throw with this list: My mother’s 12 place china, made in occupied Japan; her mother’s 12 place china, also made in occupied Japan; my mother’s everyday china, early Corning ware, heavy and also unbreakable; my wedding china, only 6 place settings also unbreakable; my later china purchase, 24 place settings [yes, 24!].
Now for silverware, my mother’s 12 place setting of silver plate, my mother-in-law’s 12 place setting of silver plate, a mish-mash from both sides of same pattern that comes out to 6 silver plate place settings.
For drinking, the original 12 place etched glass ware that came with each of the two dish settings from my mom and her mom. Then my parents decided that that was “old fashioned” and fell in love with a Swedish crystal design. Whiskey sour, both kinds of champagne glasses, red wine, white wine, water, juice, aperitif, and I know I’m forgetting something here.
Yes, its actually overwhelming, as is all the silver support items, wine bottle holders, chafing dishes, dessert platters, candle holders, vases, etc.
And yes, most certainly my parents entertained very elegantly!
cat says
Hey Mavis!
Speaking as a younger gal here, I had my dishes bought already but I actually have four sets of dishes! Stoneware, corelle for every day use and much to my husbands dismay two different sets of china that were passed down to me. He’d rather just have one set of dishes period.
My girlfriends and younger sisters are registering for dishes by the way, even if they aren’t individual place settings.
Jamie says
My daughter is getting married in less than two weeks. She is registered at Amazon for gifts she will need setting up her first home, but not for dishware. Most dishware is not meant to last these days, so this family has gone to commercial restaurant quality dishes and she wanted the same. It was also easier to find banquet sized plates, not the huge plates you see in regular stores.
Last week she went to Goodwill with a friend and found old rusted cast iron she restored and seasoned, since they are the only pans we use and she is used to.
Mel says
My husband and I bought our everyday dishes before we married, but I’m the last female descendant on both sides of my family, so I have my grandmother’s china, my great aunt’s silver (all the way down to the asparagus server–that’s a real thing), and a bunch of miscellaneous china and crystal from other relatives. My favorite set bears the ridiculous motto “Touch not the cat” and some Irish crest. I also have an antique china cabinet from my great aunt to hold it all.
We don’t use any of it just because we don’t really have the occasion, but I bought a few extra pieces used just to round out the sets in case we ever want to. My brother has my grandmother’s everyday dishes, so those get used.
When you register for gifts at places that sell china, they try to convince you to register for it, which I guess is nice if you aren’t inheriting it. Then again, if your spouse is like mine and buys things like a full set of moose mugs from National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, space may be an issue.
Susie Janov says
Mel, your “Touch not the cat” got me curious so I Googled it. It’s actually Scottish, not Irish, and is the motto of the MacPherson clan. I also saw that it could be the motto for Clan MacIntosh and Clan MacBean. I suppose you could figure out which one yours is from the “crest” or badge on the plates. How fascinating!
Mel says
Ah yes, that’s right. We actually have some with Irish designs and some with Scottish. I think you’re right–the cat ones are the Scottish. They’re from relatives I never actually met, so it’s harder to keep straight. The crest doesn’t seem to match any of those names, so I’d have to dig more to figure it out.
Rebecca in MD says
I have been married for 45 years and no longer have my wedding china (an inexpensive set I bought before we were married). At one point I had four different sets of dishes. One set was only used for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Last year I cleared them all out and now we have all white porcelain dishes. They can be placed in the oven up to 400 degrees, as well as in the microwave. They work as well for holidays as for every day, and I think food looks better on white dishes. Simple living is my goal……..
Pam says
Rebecca,
I have done the same…married for 32 years and got rid of all sets of dishes and went to all white and love them.
Mary Elizabeth Tait says
We are married 40 years this July……As an only child and only grandchild, I did not register for fine china as there was plenty to go around, but I did register for a stoneware pattern for everyday use. My mother in law commented that “they will do nothing but chip” (she also wasn’t too thrilled about the wedding )….the funny part is that she was the one who put a chip in one plate!!! We laugh about that to ourselves!
Mrs. C. says
I have a few pieces of my grandmother’s china, but my cousin has most of it, which is fine by me.
I have my wedding china.
I have my mom’s, too, which I love and it costs a fortune so it stays.
Mrs. C. says
Oh, and I have my everyday dishes since before I got married, but they are dwindling in number.
Deborah says
My daughter registered for Fiestaware when she got married 5 years ago. I have my mother’s China and my own. We use a stoneware that I bought for everyday but they are chipping and I’m already tired of them. If they do need to be replaced I will go with with porcelain too, I agree food looks best on a white plate and it’s easy to find service ware to match.
Rose says
I think a lot of couples are choosing to focus on building memories with each other instead of worrying so much about a house full of stuff. Some couples already have everything they need when they get married. Some couples would rather choose their own things without having to return 4 extra toasters.
My case was completely different from most brides – I was moving to another country! I asked for people to gift money or small things I could pack. Money was far more useful! It wasn’t about the money so much as being practical. I did ask for a special recipe from everyone to take with me in a cookbook so people would be able to give me something memorable and personal that I would use.
Wedding traditions change over time- and they should! Brides don’t always have a dowry and a cedar chest and a hand embroidered set of sheets and pillowcases to go with their China sets nowadays, either. And that’s completely okay.
Mel says
I think this is true–it depends on the circumstance and the tradition. Different areas of the country also have different norms. I’ve found that even thank you notes for gifts are now optional. When I got married, I made handmade thank you cards and mailed them out with photos that week because I thought it was supposed to be a big deal (and really wanted to say thank you!). A few years later, I bought gifts for a couple other weddings I attended, and those couples didn’t do thank you notes, but I think times just change. Postage can be steep too, so maybe that’s a factor in that particular shift.
Athena says
I didn’t do thank you notes for our wedding gifts but wanted to so badly! Unfortunately my sister lost the list of gifts, which she was in charge of, and my active military husband deployed soon after our wedding so I was already dealing with a lot! I do regret not sending them though and feel guilty every time I remember. 🙁
Mel says
I’m sure your guests understood! And like I said, I think that convention is changing, so they may not have even noticed. Some guests didn’t give us gifts (we encouraged this), so I ended up sending everyone a note and a photo to thank them for attending and just also thanked them for the gift if they sent one. But it was still tricky to keep straight, so that’s why I don’t think anything of it if I don’t get a thank you.
One of my friends gifted us a bundt pan for our wedding, and I used it to cut corn off the cob (you hold the cob in the middle hole and slice down the sides, and the kernels fall in the pan instead of spraying everywhere) before I ever baked a cake in it. My husband walked by and said “So THAT’S what that’s for!” I texted my friend to tell her, and I think she appreciated that far more than the actual card we sent her. I think people just like the idea of you enjoying their gift, even if you don’t remember what came from whom.
Katie W says
If I gave a gift in person, and received a thank you then, I’d rather not have a note mailed to me. I open it, read the note, and then toss it. I’m appreciative of the effort in writing and sending the note, but to me it’s unnecessary if I was thanked in person. I know this makes me sound like a terrible person, haha, but I promise I’m not. I’ve just tried to be more realistic with things that come into my house and how much stuff I keep around. Do I need to keep that Christmas or Birthday card for forever? No, I don’t. After Christmas, they get rounded up and discarded. I enjoy birthday cards displayed for a couple weeks and then out they go. I’ll keep one if it has a really special note or memory. Most just have a signed name. Same with thank you cards, but 95% of them have the same fill in the blank response. So I stopped feeling bad about not keeping them. For these same reasons, I send out way less thank you cards than I used to. (FWIW I’m 29, so I think this is much more common in my generation.)
Diana says
I HAD THOSE EXACT DISHES! Mine were hand-me-down from a family member (I think they were her wedding dishes too) and I took the whole set to a consignment store once me and my husband got married. The dishes we got for our wedding were awful. I think we have three bowls and one plate left from the original set. Replaced everything else with goodwill finds and Ikea. Oh and we’ve only been married 5 years!
Jennifer says
Dh and I were engaged after 7 days – ring and all!! I was a total shock to his parents, btw.
Anyhoo, the first and probably most significant fight/disagreement we had was that we were planning to elope, so I didn’t want a shower or even to register for gifts. He had a house, I had an apartment and between the two of us, we had more than enough of everything. I suggested that any family could just send us a check (this was in 1992) if they wanted to give us something.
In her world, you just DIDN’T NOT get registered and collect an entire set of good china and everyday ware. She thought that would show a lack of class and I was so in love I couldn’t care less about it. My parents still had their china and I had only seen it twice in my life, so it wasn’t important.
We decided to go the check route and we survived. I’m sure most of them were too busy deciding if A) I was pregnant as we married 5 weeks later) or B) we would be married in 6 months anyway.
On a sad note, his mom died two weeks ago and I miss her terribly. We became best friends and I can proudly say I never called her my in-law.
Allison says
I loved Where’d you go, Bernadette! Also, I think I started reading your blog around the same time I read that book, and I have always thought of you and Bernadette in a similar light – similar (written) voices for sure, and the Pacific Northwest connection. I am curious what you think of the rest of the book.
Lolly says
We got married in 1997 (JUST had our 22nd anniversary!). I had 32 days to put together a wedding (he was military, overseas), and picking out dishes wasn’t an important part of preparing to get married. I had a full set of grocery store dishes my brother had saved up to buy me for Christmas, and my sister had found off white Pfaltzgraff plates at the .99 store, lol, so I had those. I was set. Then I mailed them overseas….and the box looked like a soccer ball when it arrived. So we picked up a small set of OLD dishes from the thrift store on post (an old, old German pattern….that I adore to this day). Once we got reimbursed from the broken dishes, I went looking in the px….and they had expensive, UGLY options, so I saved the money and eventually started collecting Polish Pottery (like, drive to Poland and shop). They’ve been the best dishes ever, and back then I could get plates @ $1-2 each (now….$38-70 each, oh heavens!). I happily got the pretty and cheap pottery, and mixed and matched my pieces, and we still use those plates and bowls and bakeware.
I never wanted china. My mom used hers for Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. That seemed like a huge expense for using 3 times a yr. I preferred to use pretty dishes daily. I did end up with some pretty Villeroy and Boch transferware plates….I think it was 14 plates for 12 Deutschmarks? Or €12? Those are my “fancy” plates, lol, but we use them all the time, same as my Polish Pottery. (They are a green Burgenland, but I don’t often see my exact pattern online.) I DO have a couple of sets of silverplated silverware. Idk….maybe the German silver is true silver….it’s put away and I haven’t looked at it in years. It was pretty, and cheap, at a flea market, so I bought it. And the silverplate I have I bought at an estate sale a couple yrs ago. It was pretty and crazy cheap. The only silver I use regularly are a few spoons, that we use to scoop our coffee with, lol.
My mom’s china….idk the maker. It’s a small blue flower on white. It’s pretty enough. She stopped using it yrs and yrs ago. My sister has it now. My grandparents on both sides didn’t have any fancy china to pass on. If my mom’s mom had any wedding china, she got rid of it yrs and yrs before she passed. She didn’t like old things. That, and I think both grandma’s were from poor families and were poor, too, so fancy china wasn’t important. My dad’s mom DID collect china teacups, and each granddaughter (and maybe great-granddaughter) got one of the tea cup sets after she passed.
A says
Your Burgenland is fabulous. I love china and I had to look it up. Enjoy!
Paula says
No, I never had wedding china. I remember getting a cool set of stoneware dishes. I used them for many years until most of them broke over the years. Several years ago my husband and I moved to our retirement home in
Asheville, N.C. The area is known for the large number of artists that live here. I really wanted dishes made from local clay. As I began to research local potters. I found one I loved, East Fork Pottery (check out their website). We visited their studio and had a personal tour. There we met Alex Matisse, one the founders of the company. Do you recognize the name? He is the great grandson of Henri Matisse. He grew up in the Boston area. I love, love, my dishes. I use them everyday.
Dana says
HI Paula ~
Just saying hi from a fellow East Fork pottery lover and Asheville resident. Can’t get enough of their beautiful dishes.
🙂 Dana
Paula says
Hi Dana!
I love Mavis and East Fork. Yes, they a beautiful story! Two years ago, we hosted a meet and greet for them at our home. It was a blast! I think their business has sky rocketed since then.
Linda Sand says
That painting looks a lot like me in the late 60s. Obviously, I am a lot older than you. 🙂
Mavis Butterfield says
That is AWESOME!!! 🙂 Don’t you think it should be hanging on your wall? 🙂
Marcia says
It also looks a lot like my mom on her wedding day (1969). She even wore a green dress.
Linda says
My hubby and I’ve been married for 31 years and yes, I have my wedding china and I use it everyday. I actually went through a phase of wanting to get rid of it but my husband kept saying, “But it’s our wedding china. How can you just get rid of our wedding china?” Honestly I don’t know if he’s really that sentimental or afraid I’ll regret it! Ha! But for years it sat in the china cabinet and only used on holidays! I finally decided that life was too short…they’re just dishes- use them and elevate the everyday! After I started using them, I inherited a set of beautiful fine china! They’re very spring looking so I dig them out and use them this time of year!
As a side note, my son got married 3 years ago and he and his beautiful bride registered for china. It’s beautiful and they’re enjoying using both an everyday set and a classic pattern for her fine china. Several people commented that they enjoyed gifting them with the dishes- that they too noticed it wasn’t as popular to register for dishes as it once was.
Laura T. says
Linda, I agree with you. Life’s too short to use nice things a couple times a year! I have my china & my grandmother’s. I use it all through the year!
Lolly says
When my great-grandma died, they found years and years worth of Christmas and birthday presents put away, “to use someday”. She felt the tablecloths and whatnots were too pretty for everyday use….or she didn’t want to ruin them….or who knows. But she never got to fully enjoy using the beautiful things she owned. I was in 9th grade, and I remember my dad being gobsmacked by the things that she never ever got to use. I think that made an impression on me. I want to use my pretty things. Some may get broken or damaged in the process, but everyday I smile at the pretty pottery mugs I drink from (I get to choose which one each day!), and I smile at the pretty cloth napkins I use with bfast, lunch, and dinner, and I smile at the pretty dishtowel I choose each am to replace the one from the day before….that I made out of pretty fabric. I get to dry my hands on it. I use the potteries I’ve collected over time, looking thru and choosing which bowl, which platter, which memory from when I bought it. I love pretty things around me, and I love using those pretties every single day. I’m glad I’ve not squirreled them away for my grandkids to have to toss, unused….
ann in E. oregon says
I couldn’t agree more!! 🙂
Heather says
I never had wedding dishes. We started with a set of Corelle dishes. Most of them are gone except for the bowls. A few years ago I gained the extra set of stoneware dinner plates from my mom and I got a set of white dinner plates from my mother-in-law last October since we were having a crowd for Thanksgiving. Luckily I did since she lost everything in the Paradise, CA wildfire in November. She still had four sets of china, etc in her house. I do have a set of Christmas dishes that my mom’s second husband gave me when he sold his house and moved in with my mom.
Maggie says
Those big bowls aren’t for soup, they are for ice cream. Or maybe popcorn.
My daughter got her great great grandmother’s china, and then my sister got a set that sorta almost coordinates with it as part of an auction purchase, so she is set for china. She’s 29 and loves old stuff. Her brother just had a baby girl – my first grand – so she gets my china that was my grandmother’s when I am done with it. I do use it but not as often as I would like to. Every day use stuff is cheap Walmart black plates. They’re not bad.
Marcia says
Got married in 1996. I have that pattern, but in 3 “pasta bowls” (it was a wedding gift). There used to be 4, plus a massive bowl. We gave away the massive bowl and one of the others broke. They are great serving bowls and good for big ass salads.
We still have our wedding china (Lenox Kelly). We rarely use it, as our house is tiny, they are stored in the back of the closet, and they have gold on them so they have to be hand washed. I think we last used them 3 years ago. I’d love to use them again, now that the kids are getting a bit older.
Dana says
After graduating from high school in the late 70s, I purchased a set of Pfaltzgraff pottery in the Folk Art design. They were tan with blue design. I remember working a 2nd job for a few weeks to pay for them. I didn’t get married till I was 30 and did not get China then. I love my “back to the 70s ” pottery wear and have used them every day since.
Julia Park Tracey says
I never had “wedding” china, but I inherited my great-aunt’s Red Wing Pottery luncheon set when she died. Then, in the back of a cupboard, I found *her* mother’s fine china — so I have some of a Limoges set from 1905 — dinner plates, salad plates, a couple of serving pieces and the demitasse cups/saucers. Those were all I really wanted. My great grandparents were from southern Alabama and used to have fancy dinners. I remember drinking from the demitasse cups at Thanksgiving at my great-aunt’s house, and eating a fancy fruit cocktail appetizer.
I made do with my own purchased dishes or Target sets or occasionally Goodwill dishes, until I inherited these, and now I kind of haunt E-Bay looking for more pieces of the Red Wing Magnolia pattern (chartreuse).
“Touch Not the Cat” is an excellent Mary Stewart novel, btw.
Kay says
I am so blessed to have both my Granmother’s china.
My Fraternal Grandmother’s china came from a giveaway from soap products.
I do not know where my Maternal Grandmother’s china came from…
But I had them tested for lead once..we were told that they had a high level of lead..
Funny part about that ..those were used daily for over 50 years and my Grandparents died at over 70 and over 80.
Must have been hardy people.
Tracy L. says
So funny, I just had this conversation with my girls yesterday. They are 26 & 28 and think China is “old fashioned”. It’s what people my age (53), did, but is no longer the norm. But, then the question became, if I get rid of the China, do I get rid of the matching flatware? If I don’t have the China, what do I need the hutch for, if I don’t keep the hutch I should also get rid of the matching dining table. And, before you knew it that whole part of the house was remodeled and I was spending $$$. My husband just said, we’re keeping the China. : )
Lolly says
Lol, I love this!!!
Tracy says
I’m a freak….I have nine sets of china. From the super fancy to the everyday. And believe it or not, I use all of them! I love a good table top setting. I know. I’m a freak…
Danyell says
I am 37 and the only one my age that I know that have family China. And I have not been to a wedding in 15 years that put China on registration.
Darcy says
Before she died my grandmother gave me her set of china that my grandfather bought for her at a jewelry store in honor of her first Mother’s Day in 1942. I had a setting for 8 but last Mother’s Day my husband and daughter were able to find 4 additional plates from the same design on Etsy. I use them for almost all of our family get-togethers.
Lynn Y says
I have recently fallen in love with my wedding china all over again and have been thinking about collecting additional pieces. My pattern never lost value; in fact, it has increased in value. We use it for holidays. It’s not a problem to hand wash as the dishwasher gets filled up with all the other dishes from our get-togethers.
I’ve been addicted to watching Dr. Lori on YouTube lately (an antique appraiser) and am more cautious with any antique china I buy. My wedding china is okay to eat off of; however, she states that one must use caution with eating off of very old china as they used lead in the design patterns back in the day.
Katie W says
Mmm yummy food. I’m only on year 6 of marriage, but we still have our dishes! We went the practical route. White dishes and a set of silverware from Target. I think they are classy and timeless. So we’ll use them for as long as they last. We did not register for wedding china. I don’t think we’d ever use it.
Gee says
I have my wedding china from 1974, a beautiful service for 12, including all the serving pieces. Each place setting is hand-painted in Germany with a different set of flowers. The flowers are named on the back and identified with a letter so I can match up each piece for one place setting. One of the cups has a bee inside, another a fly. 🙂 I don’t use them that much now, because I rarely have a bunch of people over anymore, but I used to, and I love them. With my crystal water goblets, which have a wide gold band, the table never looked better.
I also have a service for 12 luncheon set of amber depression glass that my grandmother collected using S & H green stamps. She gave it to me, the only granddaugbter, when I was 8. It’s also politically incorrect, as it includes two ashtrays. 🙂