I ♥ Macy's!

Over the last few months I've been starting to think about what kinds of things to register for. Tim lives on his own, and I did while in undergrad, so we already have some things, but I've been trying to fill in the gaps of what's missing and what really should just be replaced. I know that I have plenty of time to work through this before I need to actually put together a registry, so I've been focusing a little more on trying to choose styles, themes, patterns, etc. One thing that I keep coming back to is china. 


Surprisingly, Tim has had a lot of input about our everyday china. For the most part, Tim is the typical "You figure it out and tell me when to show up" groom, so I really enjoy when some random aspect of wedding planning catches his attention. Even if it is the shape of the dinner plates. Tim has taken a very strong Anti-Circular Plates stance in preference of square plates. :) Too cute. I think we're going with stoneware for our everyday china... something in a pretty blue or green maybe?

As for our fine china... I found a pattern that I thought I liked (Waterford - Alana), but I couldn't find it in any stores here. When I asked a salesperson at Bed Bath & Beyond about it, he said that they're not carrying it in the stores anymore because it didn't sell very well. He also was able to describe what it looks like in person to me, which is important because the same picture can look different on every computer screen. From his description (and a few other people's corroboration of it) I decided against choosing it. So I decided to let it rest for a while and I would search more later. Then, when I was waiting for Voltron to be done at the groomer's, I stepped into Bed Bath & Beyond to kill some time and I came across a china pattern that caught my eye.  In addition to being beautiful in person, they had a 40-piece 8 person setting that was on sale for half its price! This definitely piqued my interest. So, being the nerd that I am, I researched customer satisfaction ratings for this item. Everyone said great things about it! I wasn't sure if I should go ahead and purchase it now or if I should just wait and register for it and see what happens, so I asked a few family and friends about it and they encouraged me to go for it. A few days later, I got a Macy's advertisement in the mail for their one day sale that priced the same 40-piece set for even less! Coupled with a gift card that I got from my super-duper future sister-in-law (or in wedding chat talk: FSIL... haha..i'm a dork...) and a store credit my mom had, we ended up getting 8 settings for less than the price of 1! I couldn't be happier about this decision. I love every piece in this pattern, and am so excited to have gotten such a great deal on it!

So, here it is! Mikasa - Parchment in all it's glory. :)

I also went to my first Southern Living at Home party at my other FSIL's house, where I purchased some really cute appetizer plates they had in my wedding colors. Super excited to get those in! It's fun to start seeing things like this come together. Every little thing is like a reminder that this is actually happening and we're actually getting married. When I showed the china to my youngest brother, he said, "It's fancy. It's like Mom's plates." It was really funny to me to have a comparison made with my parents' wedding things... because they're adults. It's hard for me to feel like an "adult" a lot of the time because I'm still in school and still living with my parents, but sometimes the little things (like buying some plates) make me realize that I am an adult. And adult things are happening in my life. Like getting married. :) So so happy.