Wedding China, what have you done with yours?

I use mine when we have more than 6 people and always for Christmas etc. My daughter uses her grandmother’s in the same way.
All China will survive a medium wash in the dishwasher as long as you open the door as soon as the cycle finishes to let the steam out and let it all air dry, or wipe it dry. This is especially important if it has a metallic trim.

We gave our dinner service still in good condition to our charity shop

How lovely to still have your wedding present china!
Ours was broken long ago through constant use ( I rarely save things for best.)

MiniMoon.....Haddon Hall is a fab pattern.?

Our wedding “china” was all Denny Arabesque which was used every day for many years but eventually all sold successfully when after 25 years we decided on another Denny pattern.

Denby not Denny! Autocorrect!

I volunteer in a charity shop and customers are always looking for tea sets. One lady drills a hole in plates and makes cake stands and sells them for charity.

Some nursing homes like china teasets for their special afternoon tea days.

My in-laws gave us a Royal Doulton (aegean) teaset as an engagement present and it was used occasionally.
DS and DiL chose Royal Doulton China as wedding presents and it's exactly the same greyish-blue colour. They'll be happy to have it once their kitchen extension is complete!

I have Royal Albert Old Country Roses full dinner service, tea service, cake tower and sandwich plates and coffee set with exquisite demi tasse cups, soup coupes, tourines and serving dishes all for 16. It comes out at Christmas and if we have a lot of visitors for dinner, so very rare. I do love it and my daughter does not want it but my son has said he would like it as it reminds him of special dinner and teas from his childhood, which surprised me as he is not really sentimental. Mine takes up 2 cabinets and I have tiny silver teaspoons and sugar tongs too which i quite enjoy polishing every 2 weeks or so. It does look lovely when table set with it all but as someone said can't go in dishwasher so impractical. I have a smaller service of Royal Albert Memory Lane which has pretty forget-me-not pattern full dinner and tea and coffee service for 8 which I shall leave my other son. I use this to serve afternoon tea to friends when they visit and put cakes on stand if several friends at once. I like drinking out of bone china cup. If you don't want them others might love them, put them up for sale on ebay but collect only as a nighmare to post.

I'm another who had no wedding china. Later I acquired a set by buying one piece per week via a supermarket offer. (MacFisheries - does anyone remember them?) Years later I finally acquired the set I really wanted - Denby. Still in daily use.

Never had any. I like to buy new every couple of years and give what I don't want to local tea-rooms and boot sales.
Cutlery has to have handles the ends of which don't dig in your palms and have a proper balance.
The only items of note are an antique set of tea spoons which each have a different hand painted ceramic? of one of Henry VIII's wives, inset on the finial.

Mine, what now seems a horrendous amount of pieces for a dinner service, is stored in a large tea chest in the garage together with my 'Roses' tea set.

My grans tea set. I made a special cream tea for my grandsons girlfriends birthday. She loved it.

Diane227
I like the matching paper cups and napkins. Very pretty.

Am using mine but the tea and coffee sets are boxed up ready to go to auction as they are never used. DCs have said they would like the dinner service (12piece) shared between them in due course - suits me

Royal Doulton stoneware in Fieldflower, which I have added to on eBay. It has big red and orange poppies, so a bit dated but we use it regularly. I am afraid the tiled floor at the new house may take a toll!
Our crystal glasses also get regular use and the very few that have been broken were replaced. Not bad for 41 years!

I started to buy a Denby dinner/tea service when I got engaged. I used to buy a plate or cup & saucer on payday. I then put what I hadn't already bought on my wedding list. Use it occasionally but do use my MiL's Royal Albert as there is loads of if and the only set I have enough of for a family get-together.

My beautiful Royal Doulton 8 place set is stored in a cupboard awaiting a return to value. Dream on! How well I remember collecting pieces every salary day until the set was completed. So expensive but such a joy to use and it was regularly aired as we did lots of entertaining. Not so nowadays, of course, but it holds so many precious memories. Foolish, I know, but....there y'go.

We had a set of Wedgwood when we married, long since broken. I collected a Royal Worcester bone China dinner service which I use occasionally. My grandmother left me her Royal Doulton dinner service which I have added to over the years. It is now enough for 18 settings and is used when the family come for Sunday lunch or at Christmas. I love it and enjoy using it. Everyday is plain white china. We also had a canteen of silver cutlery for 12 which is now 18 with my mother’s canteen added when she died. Used regularly as well.

Sell to a vintage shop. We have loads of crystal glasses that we got over the years in the seventies. It won't go in the dishwasher and just takes up room in the cupboard. I know my daughter or son would not want it. I also have a Denby coffee set, unused as the cups are tiny.

Do people still have China cabinets???
I can remember my gran having one.

I didn't have any wedding china, but I have my grandmother's royal Copenhagen service - we use it every day, as we don't see the point of keeping things for best,

We don't give large parties, so when would we use it, if we did keep it for best?

I doubt charity shops will want it, as they are full up of china that no-one ever seems to buy. Giving it to a small café or the tea and coffee service to a tea shop might be possible.

You could advertise it online and see if there are any customers.

Sr69. Yes, to answer your question.
We have my mum's, but it is full of my coloured glass collection.
It is a nice, tall, piece of furniture.

Being a quiet wedding just after the war we didn’t have any wedding presents. However later we bought a Spode plain dinner service and I still use what is left of it. Tea sets were taken by charity shop.