China Patterns

Chris and I finally completed our registry, we've decided to just maintain two as registering at more places just seemed rather daunting, so if you feel so inclined to buy us a little something something, you can find us at either bed bath and beyond or crate and barrel (which i previously did a post on if you will remember)

the one question i kept asking myself was, do people still register for fine bone china? i'm assuming they do considering the section that we saw at bed bath and beyond was ginormous! far more selections than the casual dining china...my original thought was to just register for some classic white dishes...something like these:

(image via corelle)

classic, white and totally replaceable if i broke one, i get another white dish, it matches and i don't have to worry about discontinuity and such because, well a white dish is a white dish!

BUT in reality when we stared registering, my fiancee kept picking out these earthenware style dishes, and instead of casual white we ended up with these puppies:

(image via bed bath and beyond)

this is the nova black collection by sango...it's not white, it's not classic but it's not too bad, i can live with it... and if it means so much to C, i will happily eat off of these for the rest of my married life...so for a set of 8 we registered these for and ready to move on.

UNTIL i started thinking about what happens when i have the inlaws over for christmas and i want to actually set a nice dinner up for everyone? or when i have a giant fancy house, i'm not gonna serve my fancy dinner that i will spend hours slaving over on plain casual china, NO i will need the fine bone stuff...so enter in what I dub thee worthy:

(image via bed bath and beyond)

this is the lenox continental platinum set...its classy, simple and totally up my alley, like what i would've wanted in the white casual china that i for went...but C was not sold...he asks why are we going to register for "classic" white fine bone china? if we're going to be serving a fancy dinner, we better serve it on fancy ornate china, so he picked this out to illustrate his point:

(image via bed beth and beyond)

Vintage Jewel set by Lenox, it's medieval looking, it's positively ornate beyond description and it evokes all kinds of dungeons and dragons motifs ( to me at least anyway) but it is oddly charming in a weird dorky/geeky way...so our registry coordinator (?) Laura showed us what this would look like on a table, and once we matched the crystal goblets and the crazy silverware,napkins and napkin rings...it looked pretty good to me. i was able to envision my fancy thankgiving meal, giant turkey and my "king arthur" dishes... alright that sold me, and it's totally us...it was fairly painless. So i didn't choose the china patterns, the fiancee did...but hey i got him to promise to buy me a castle to live in so we can use our wedding china the way they're meant to be used for, meals served fit for a king, thats us... royalty... :)

Did you choose your china patterns? or did your future husband have a hand in all of this?

(p.s. i better be getting a castle in the not too distant future, complete with moat and snapping turtles! from a certain man i am to marry!)