Wedding presents still in use

Forgot that I still have two sets of cut glass fruit bowls also wedding presents. Plus a whole Chinese dinner set and chopsticks from when we lived in Singapore 1970ish.
Still using a Pyrex glass measuring jug from around the same time, also a wooden rolling pin, and have only just retired my Philips electric mixer, bought in 1969.
And my late DM's huge yellow mixing bowl comes out every year to mix the Christmas puddings!

From 54 years ago, a few things such as Pyrex casseroles and a set of utensils, ladles, carving set, that sort of thing. Of our original dinner service I think there are just 2 dinner plates and 5 soup bowls left! DH's aunt bought us a dinner service too, most of which is now with DD as she loves it.

Before we were married DH and I fell in love with a beautiful set of expensive Norwegian stainless steel cutlery; we bought the entire range gradually, box by box as we couldn't afford the whole lot all at once.
It has been used almost daily since 1972 and still looks brand new - it was a good investment!

60 years old in December. Oneuda cutlery set including dessert forks and spoons. Wooden bread board, rolling pin, pyrex bowl set, 1 small stainless steel pan, some Worcester mugs.
Not wedding presents but used fo.
r 40 years Denby dinner service (8 place setting) tea service and mugs.
Had a clear out about a year ago with a lot of 60s dinner, coffee sets taken to charity shop as they just were not used or even likely to be used.

My son now has a set of four kitchen chairs, and a plaster bust of Gladstone, that were wedding presents to my parents in 1952.

Portmeirion Pomona china - added to and replaced over the years but still used everyday. I find it very cheering.

I'd forgotten about my Prestige hand whisk. That was a wedding present too. I don't use it, but I would never part with it. Beautifully made and still in excellent condition from 1964.

Like Chocolatelovinggran wedding china - still used daily 35 years on and 10 years post-divorce…

I still use my electric carving knife. Can’t slice meat and bread by hand very well. Wed in 1970. Still have a stainless steel percolator and a lovely stainless steel teapot and matching water jug we got as weddings presents. Married 56 years.

Sorry! My post only makes sense if I remember to add the photo!!

This stainless steel serving dish. Stainless steel was very popular in the early sixties.
The large fork belonged to my granny and then my mother. It was used in the old days for beating the Yorkshire pudding batter. I still use it for cooking.
The knife used to have a green handle and was a gift to my mum from my father. It's for slicing tomatoes. Very much a modern item in its day. I still use the knife, but for piercing potatoes and veg to test if they are done.

I still have some cut glass fruit bowls that an aunt gave us nearly 60 years ago. The large bowl that went with it I lent to someone who broke it.

We have our cutlery set, stainless steel from 59 years ago, also a Pyrex bowl and a tray given by a great aunt.

I have a breadboard and the sharpest of sharp serrated bread knife from my parents' wedding presents in 1940. Used daily. Plus their green enamel bread tin.

From our wedding a Moulinex liquidiser used daily for the last 2 years to make banana milkshakes, an orange Le Creuset casserole, Dartington glasses, only 2 left of Whitefriars sundae dishes, brown Wedgewood Sterling soup dishes and plates, a Habitat decanter, a Dartington decanter. These last 2 not used but nice to look at. Who does use a decanter these days I wonder? And a Le Creuset fondue set used a lot in the 70s but not for years and years now. I remember a wooden fruit bowl not in use now...but where is it? I could use it now. I shall have a search.

We have a set of stainless steel mixing bowls. Nearly 63 years old and still in constant use.

Thank you Witzend; I’ll probably just stick with the new one. I assume it will last the same 52 years 😂. I just can’t say goodbye to the old one!

Romola

We had, and I still have, a large pottery bowl with our names and the date of our wedding in 1965. It was made by the wife of an uncle who was a professional potter. They were much loved and I treasure their bowl.

That's a lovely keepsake to have - so personal.

This is an interesting post and shows the difference in generations . I was 29 when I met my dh and we both had a property and had most of the things we needed . Infact we doubled up on lots of things .. We had a wedding list at John Lewis and struggled to find stuff to put on it .

We had, and I still have, a large pottery bowl with our names and the date of our wedding in 1965. It was made by the wife of an uncle who was a professional potter. They were much loved and I treasure their bowl.

A le Creuset casserole; serving dishes & a big salad bowl; my sideboard still used after 40 years.
Duvet covers, a rug and tablecloths have all worn out or moved on though.

My ironing board is still going strong.
It's only in the last couple of years that a kitchen swing-bin received as a wedding present was finally replaced.

I can't think of anything else.

But I do have small table with a lift-up top that was made and given to my parents when they married, and a few things from my grandma's house that might possibly have been given to her and my grandad when they married.
Those things mean a lot to me.

54 years and quite a lot -
Moulinex liquidiser. (Did have to get the two pin plug replaced with a 3 pin though .)

Most of wedding present cutlery

Large saucepan and stockpot (that was when non-stick was a revelation)

Quite a bit of pyrex

Royal Worcester bowls

Ironing board bought with Green Shield Stamps (many covers since then!)

Quite a lot of untensils that my Mum bought me in John Lewis to kit me out

A huge wooden pepper mill and 2 wooden spoons that came as a set with some other wooden stuff but some of it got woodworm

I also have, and use, one of my Grandmother's tablespoons which is from their wedding present cutlery (1914)

I forget about the orange Le Creuset casserole which we still use as it’s perfect for two being 20 cm diameter.

It was our Golden Wedding this year. We are still using the China my parents gave us and a couple of the saucepans. I still have the wooden bread board my parents were given in 1952.

Quite a lot of things, really, including glassware, vases, a clothes airer, casserole dishes, a dinner service, towels to name a few.

My Kenwood Chef dates back to late 1972, A special buy from Tesco, and I made sure I bought it on a Tuesday so that I got double Green Shield stamps.

From my wedding we still have: the beautiful antique chest of drawers my parents -in-law gave me, my best dinner set and canteen of cutlery, towels. We had a quiet wedding, 20 guests, even the priest performing the ceremony was family, so quite a small crop of wedding presents. One towel is still in use as dusters.