<p>I like my wedding china, Royal Doulton Sherbrooke, I also have Lenox Holiday so I don’t use my Royal Doulton very often. My dining room is red so I don’t always like the Royal Doulton in there. I also have everyday dishes, inbetween china and things I picked up at Pottery Barn, Target and antique stores. We entertain fairly often so I like to change things up!</p>
<p>HIMom, I like the idea of “if you invite the guest, you pay for the guest”. :)</p>
<p>I have never been a china person. Didn’t want it then, and not now. Would love to replace the everyday stuff I have now with a plain white with some detail on the edge.</p>
<p>It’s interesting … I’ve looked up a lot of these china patterns and they were available when I was planning my wedding, but I don’t remember seeing any of them in stores at that time, and some of them I like better than what I ended up getting.</p>
<p>I’ve found that ebay is much cheaper than Replacements. My china was Spell Binder from Noritake.[Noritake</a> China 5 Piece Placesetting Spell Binder 9733 - eBay (item 230502105548 end time Aug-20-10 16:59:32 PDT)](<a href=“http://cgi.ebay.com/Noritake-China-5-Piece-Placesetting-Spell-Binder-9733-/230502105548?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0]Noritake”>http://cgi.ebay.com/Noritake-China-5-Piece-Placesetting-Spell-Binder-9733-/230502105548?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0) and I still like it.</p>
<p>My everyday was a little wild, Rangoon by Wedgwood. [Wedgwood</a>, RANGOON, Platter - eBay (item 160276150324 end time Aug-15-10 06:44:59 PDT)](<a href=“http://cgi.ebay.com/Wedgwood-RANGOON-Platter-/160276150324?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0]Wedgwood”>http://cgi.ebay.com/Wedgwood-RANGOON-Platter-/160276150324?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0)</p>
<p>Nice dishes. Both sets.</p>
<p>I would have changed everything about my first wedding. The groom decided after 3 months to move back in with his parents. We were 24 and they bribed him to go home (they lived in another state). He wanted me to go with him but I refused. I had an apartment to pay for and he didn’t treat me well. We divorced a few months later.</p>
<p>My parents informed me on the way to look at wedding dresses that my mom already had picked out one for me. It was a white bridemaid’s dress with big ruffles around the off the shoulder top. No lace, no decoration. I told my mom I didn’t like it and if she liked it so much she should wear it! I wanted sleeves and lace. She would not let up! It looked like a 1940’s prom dress. She would not let up although my dad and the sales clerk tried to help me. I finally gave in thinking I could change it before the wedding (I can sew) but my parents picked up the dress the before the wedding and I didn’t even get to try it on again or look for another! I still hate the dress and my mother. </p>
<p>The groom’s parents disowned him at the reception because he married me.
The cake didn’t turn out right and had to be redone and the photographer decided to go home before the reception, which was a meal in the parent’s house, was over. My parents would not let me have a say in anything because my mother told me only she knew how to do a wedding.</p>
<p>I had two friends there and my parents didn’t even want that. It was all their friends and co-workers and some family. I was miserable and it showed in the pictures.</p>
<p>I would have done everything over.</p>
<p>Oh, shyanne, please tell me that you have lived happily ever after despite horrible parents, inlaws and groom!</p>
<p>I got married again 2 years later and wore a dusty rose dress with lace and sleeves that I picked out and my husband informed my mother that HE was planning the wedding so she had to butt out. We had 40 friends come. And we went to Niagra Falls for the honeymoon. Just celebrated our 25th.</p>
<p>Yay!! That’s great!</p>
<p>Did I tell you that my MIL wore white to our wedding? Nothing too Oedipal there, huh??</p>
<p>Glad to hear it, shyanne!</p>
<p>You can’t go wrong in dusty rose.</p>
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<p>Wow. They sound like the in-laws from hell. I’m glad you got out quickly and that second husband gave you a wedding you were happy with.</p>
<p>Thank you for the nice comments! That was only part of what went on but I know I will try to be the best mother-in-law possible when the time comes.</p>
<p>Oh, yeah, my MIL, when the colour was pink, not dusty, she wore turquoise…way to draw all the attention to yourself in real life and in the photos</p>
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<p>Someone should have told this to Woody’s MIL :)</p>
<p>Heh My wedding was over the top formal. My MIL made her own dress ( she is not a seamstress ) . A nice run of the mill “I can go to work in this” dress. The seating chart accomodated that fact and she was seated at the table furthest in the back.</p>
<p>lol still waiting for the MIL thread. I love her now, but we had some rough patches early on … hehe</p>
<p>My husband’s sister and I have never gotten along well. She was the only daughter with 3 brothers and was a spoiled brat. I was the first daughter-in-law, and since I wasn’t a whiny 22-going-on-14 year, my MIL really liked me. As a result, my SIL was J-E-A-L-O-U-S. I had her as a bridesmaid in my wedding, and she spent the last 3 months before the wedding insisting she needed surgery on her leg and saying she was gonna be in a wheelchair for the wedding. There was no surgery and her leg made a miraculous recovery after the wedding. She spent the reception sneaking alcohol to my 17 year old brother and his girlfriend. I think she was hoping one of them would make a scene and ruin things. When that didn’t work she grabbed the microphone and sang a truly awful off-key version of “Under the Boardwalk.” It went over like a lead balloon.</p>
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<p>Fast-forward 6 years. SIL is finally getting married. She’s from NYC area and had her bridesmaids in black - apparently no one in NYC owns any clothes in any color other than black. I’m from the South, moved to New England - I grew up believing you should wear COLOR to weddings - no white (don’t compete with the bride), no black (funeral). I was the only relative or in-law who wasn’t chosen to be in the bridal party. And I wore a very tasteful chemise dress - in a deep pink. So now when you look at the family photos, your eye is drawn to ME - other than the bride in her white dress, I’m the only one not in black. I swear I didn’t do it on purpose, it never occurred to me (I never even saw the bridesmaid’s dresses until the day of the wedding). But I secretly think it’s kind of funny. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Lafalum, I sent a PM to you.</p>
<p>Great story, Lafalum!</p>
<p>My maid of honor wore dusty rose, and my now discontinued china was Noritake Etienne–with a black border decorated with dusty rose flowers. I still like dusty rose!</p>