wedding registry, wish I never..

I love my China, I specifically chose Micasa Cameo because it's just a platinum ring and nothing else. I'm hoping it will remain timeless and I will still love it in 25 years.

I use it often, DH hates it though because he doesn't like hand washing it. He humors me though, when I go through the effort of cooking large meals, I want to serve it on special dishes!

ETA: I also like how simple it is because I can flourish the table with fun colors in the form of chargers, napkins, and table decor which is cheaper to replace as trends and my tastes change.

I have my Mom's china and crystal.

Most of the time it all sits in my china cabinet. Once a month it is just me and dh and we pull it all out and say we eat like adults.

Jennifer

That was super smart, scrappyoutlaw!  Wish I'd chosen something so timeless. 

We registered when we married (18 years ago) and have service for twelve. We use it. We picked a fairly basic pattern. We added the soup bowls maybe twelve years ago. I'd like to get the accent plates at some point. We haven't broken a piece yet. We shouldn't have registered for the coffee server; I think we've used it once. Pouring coffee into it and then into cups isn't going to happen.

Whenever I am in the dumps, dh fixes me an appetizer plate on the china, and it makes me smile.

As a cautionary tale, I posted a few months ago about my grandmother's china. I had never seen her use it, and my father had it in his garage for over 30 years waiting to pass it on to me, which he did a few years ago. It has been sitting in boxes in my garage. It isn't my taste, I had no personal sentimental attachment to it, I have my own china, and I have a vintage dish collection for more casual use. We moved a few weeks ago, and I gave it away. There is no place for it in the new house, and I didn't want it sitting around in a third garage. If you like your china, use it. If not, consider selling it/sending it on to someone who would give it some air.

I have the most hideous tea service and dinner set, still boxed up in the garage, and given to us by a rich relative of my husband. Rich does not equal taste. I really should get rid of it. I would never use it in a million years.

If you live near Chicago, you could pass that hideous Old Country Roses to someone who loves it.

Would love to visit Chatsworth (the one in England, right?). Have not been to England for many years. The first time I saw OCR was at my to-be husband's aunt's house in Stoke-on-Trent, if I remember her home correctly.

Hated it at first. Then it grew on me. We ended up buying a few seconds, and after we married we bought it a little at a time until we have the set and some serving and decor pieces.

Your husband would never notice the absence of that box!

I never had a wedding registry but I did get some china from my grandmother. I sold it to a church for $50 when I needed cash.

My mother gave me a set of antique china from my stepfather's mother. On Ancestry.com I found a nephew of his and arranged to meet with him and I gave him the china that was his grandmothers.

My mother has a set of 1950's china that I never liked but it has really grown on me now and someday I will have that china which will mean the most to me anyway.

I did use my various china sets on certain occasions, but I don't miss not having any. I'm glad I never had a registry but tell you what, I got some unusual wedding gifts as a result. Like someone took 5 black document frames and put in black and white photocopies of victorian paintings. My bridesmaid gave me a brass tabletop mirror, and our best man gave us seashells with scenes painted on them. Ummmmm, really? Gotta love your friends.

I registered for the same pattern as my Mom. I always loved hers and I figured that we could share pieces if we needed to. It's a plain cream Lenox pattern with 2 gold circles around the edge and middle of the plates. My mom has had it for over 20 years and it's still in style.

I only use mine for Christmas but I still love it. It helps that our home has a formal dining room and that we purchased the previous owners china cabinet, dining table and chairs so I have somewhere to display it all.

For my first wedding, I registered for everyday China (Mikasa) that we still use most of the time, as well as good flatware (also still used daily) and my own pattern of formal China, which I've rarely used. Even so, I don't regret registering for it. When our parents are gone, I will be the one hosting and will be able to use it then. What I didn't register for was sterling flatware as I knew that I would be inheriting three sets: my mother's, grandmother's and great-grandmother's. I love having multiple sets of dishes that I can switch out and am lucky enough to have a kitchen with enough cabinetry to store it all. My mom even just sent over my grandmother's China because I have more room than she does.

What I regret NOT doing is registering at all for my second marriage. We weren't planning a formal wedding so I didn't see the need (plus, I already had a fully stocked house), but it frustrated the heck out of DH's friends and relatives. Not that he has ever complained!

Do you actually own the teapot? A whole set of that pattern wouldn't fit my style, but I think the teapot is fun. Speaking as a dish nerd, it's such a great example of that type of China - the flowers and the shape lines. I would display it or mix it in with more subdued dishes.

When gsquaredmom returns to Chicago, she can drop the teapot off at my house on the way home from the airport. I'm sure she doesn't want the teapot. Nah. No way.

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And this has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of my post, but Ryann: I ALWAYS agree with you, no matter the topic. What's with that???

I have my grandmothers silver. We use it for big meals.
I have some crappy China my inlaws didn't sell at one of their estate sales. Not my taste at al. Even my dh thinks it's ugly it he made me take it. It's going to goodwill in my next clean out.

I wod love to have a nice classic pattern with just a gold or silver rim.

Our silver is our everyday flatware. I don't have any stainless. Use it!