<p>Noritake “Ireland Morning Jewel”</p>
<p>Pretty, but if I did it again I would just go with plain china, no flower patterns.It was discontinued years ago, but my Mom bought a whole lot right before, so I have plenty. It seems to me as if not very many couples are actually getting china these days.</p>
<p>Love this thread!</p>
<p>My china from the second wedding was Royal Doulton Rhodes - very simple and still very pretty. But after the wedding we went to the Crate and Barrel outlet and bought plain white “restaurant” china.</p>
<p>I’m moving and unsure whether to take the Noritake “Bolero” china.</p>
<p>My younger S’s wedding was the day after Hurricane Gloria on LI at my parents aeach house. I think ours was the only house on LI that had power that day. My then-BF, now H went to LILCO that morning and demanded somehow that they get power to our house and THEY DID!! The day was absolutely beautiful!!
After elaborate rehearsal dinner had to be cancelled, my dad heated up cans of baked beans and hot dogs on our grill! My lord, I’m sure my mom was spinning in her grave!</p>
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<p>Just looked it up - it’s gorgeous!!!</p>
<p>I adore china (too bad I don’t adore cooking.) Besides the rejects up in the attic, I have maybe 6 full sets, plus odds and ends, in active use.</p>
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<p>This is beautiful, too (love the shape of the cup) but a tad formal for me…sort of deserving of a state dinner and household help.</p>
<p>My first (and only) wedding would not be at the age of just-turned-21. Too young!</p>
<p>That’s what would be different for me. The rest is not that important. I’m glad my kids live in a time where it’s the norm to be a little bit older.</p>
<p>My first and only wedding, in NYC City Hall, 28 years ago. Cost $10 for license. Two friends as witnesses. Best, happiest, most fun day of my life. I wouldn’t change a thing. Not now, not then, not ever.</p>
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<p>And no angry relatives? That’s great.</p>
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<p>Yeah, just one of those, but it wasn’t any of the four parents, who*** loved it ***when they found out (after the fact). So who cares? Not me. Not him.</p>
<p>“That’s great.” Yes indeedy, it is great. To this day, I cannot figure out, for the life of me, why people do up those big, big-a$$ weddings.</p>
<p>:::scratching head in uber-puzzlement:::</p>
<p>My sister’s first wedding was in our home and they got more casual from there. Her third was in the pastor’s office. I even got her new last name wrong that year on the Christmas card because I had never seen it spelled out.</p>
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<p>Me, too! </p>
<p>While Mr PMK was in flight school, his friend married a real southern belle. They had all their wedding gifts sent to their new apartment and it looked like Tiffanys had blown up in their living room. When they came to our house for dinner, she looked at our plates and said, very nicely, “These are the most darlin’ everyday dishes.”</p>
<p>I replied in my then very strong New Jersey accent, “Those are my every damn day dishes. If the pope and the queen come for dinner, they are eating off of those dishes.”</p>
<p>We had so much fun together; I miss her (they divorced and she cut off contact with all of us from her military spouse days.)</p>
<p>For our 20th anniversary, we decided to stop replacing pieces as they broke and instead got new dishes; white Fiesta. They are made in the US, heavy as heck and I can use all my colorful, mexican pottery as serving dishes. Love it!</p>
<p>I bought yellow Fiesta. I love it, but I do think food looks better served on white dishes.</p>
<p>Do I get to change the in-laws? My H is great, my FIL thought it was all about him. Two minutes after my future H and I announced we were engaged he was all over the *I have to rent a tux … a tux … I need a tux …" </p>
<p>I would have been SO much happier if he could have just gotten over what he wanted – I wore a Laura Ashley tea length bridal gown and the bridesmaids were in Laura Ashley and the guys would have been great in navy blazers, white slacks and LA or Vineyard Vines ties … but he HAD to have a TUX. So all the men HAD to have TUX. </p>
<p>And I would have made my parents put up a tent on the lawn … or better, arrange with the landowner next door to rent the unused in 20 years meadow, mow it, and have a tent there. </p>
<p>ps. 1984</p>
<p>Also would have changed honeymoon location. We went to Antigua. Should have done Nantucket or Bermuda. Or Hawaii.
And I would have really tried to have my horseman uncle, who was like a second father to me, do a horse and carriage thing. Might even have changed the church if we could have pulled off the horse and carriage. It’s not like we didn’t have the carriage and horses … we had two churches … the church 7 miles uptown where I was confirmed and married, and the 1/2 mile down the street church where I was baptized like three generations before me …</p>
<p>I was lucky enough to get my mother’s china since I was married last in my family of 7 girls!
It is beautiful - Bernardaud Limoges that was commissioned for Queen Elizabeth’s first official visit to France in 1957. I know it’s sounds crazy but my parents took my severely disabled older sister to Lourdes and my mother sure as hell was not going to pass up a shopping trip in Paris.</p>
<p>I have Noritake Limerick. I think the Bolero pattern is beautiful. I just want a more classy pattern. I keep trying to foist mine off on my daughters but neither of them want china.</p>
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<p>I LOVE it!</p>
<p>@ Woody - My mom actually suggested we have hot dogs and beans for our rehearsal dinner and I was the one that was mortified. Ditto with the suggestion that I just order a dress out of the JCPenney catalog. I love my mom, but she just doesn’t get it, never has and never will.</p>
<p>I was 24, H 26. We had a small church wedding 40-50 guests, all my family & friends cuz H had just arrived from another country. My college roommate and her husband were our attendants. It was followed by a picnic reception in my parents’ backyard, prepared by 2 of my aunts. </p>
<p>I would change my dress. I made it in Jan. & we ended up getting married in August. It was a beautiful hand beaded gown with matching hat but it had long, not sheer, sleeves. I wasn’t thinking ahead when I did that. </p>
<p>I would have liked for some of H’s family & friends to be there. Parents weren’t going to make the trip, then his father decided we should postpone the wedding by a month so he could come. That was less than a week ahead of time, so it was impossible. College friend was supposed to come but canceled, so H was all alone with my family.</p>