China Dinnerware "Service for"?

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Jessie

I'm looking in to buying some new China Dinnerware. The thing is I'm not sure on the right "service for" number. I have a rather large family both on my side and with my in-laws. I want to get the right number so that when I have everyone over for the holidays we donât run out. Can anyone help?

Answer
mom says to count the maximum number of guests you expect at one time then add four extra

12 guests + 4 spare = 16

you would order a service for 16 - that way if one ever got broken or you needed a plate to set a cake on you have it

How many formal place settings do we really need?

Crazybird

Literally everything me and my fiance own is from either a thrift store, flea market or pawn shop. We don't need a bunch of material crap to be happy, and we put money into our savings account like crazy. We do tend to host a lot of small dinners (like 4 or 5 people), and we've really been wanting a nice set of stemware and flatware for a long time. We've requested no gifts for our wedding (we really don't want a bunch of stuff we already have like pans and towels), so we think now would be a good time to buy these items, so we can remember them as something special as our wedding "gift" to ourselves. We're planning on spending about $1500. For that, we can get a service for 12 flatware set and a 16 piece stemware set (8 wineglasses, and 8 iced beverage glasses), or a service for 8 flatware set, the 16 pieces of stemware and 8 awesome turkey napkin rings. The only reason the napkin rings even caught our eye is because we both find Thanksgiving as our favorite holiday, and we can really picture these on our table for every future Thanksgiving in the years to come. I can seriously never ever imagine hosting 12 people at a formal sit down dinner, but the saleslady insists the extra 4 place settings are the better way to go and we'll regret it if we don't get them. We kind of feel like we'd regret it more not getting those napkin rings. We have never spent so much on frivolous things like this, and we really want to make the right choice in getting the items we will use and enjoy most. More than anything though, we ant to get something we can always remember as having as newlyweds, and something we can pass down to our future children. Does anyone have any suggestions on which way to go? I know it's "traditional" to have a service for 12, but do you actually ever use all 12 place settings at once? Or if you were in our situation, would you get the napkin rings that really grabbed your attention and get a more reasonable number of place setting you can actually imagine using?

And we're looking at Reed and Barton, which is an extremely nice brand. The number of glasses isn't really negotiable to us, as we frequently have 10+ people over for drinks, but not for sit down dinners. And don't worry, we are by no means draining our savings or spending more than we can afford on this purchase, we simply picked an amount that seems reasonable to us for our first important houseware purchase together :-)

Answer
I personally was never able to buy special dinnerware. I hope you love what you picked out. I will probably inherit my Mother-in-Law's Desert Rose pattern, which I really don't care for. My two sisters-in-law both have two or three sets of 12 each that they have purchased or inherited.

If you are choosing a classic pattern for all these things, and are buying at a large, nation-wide chain (like Macy's) then I'd go for the 8-piece settings and get the napkin rings. Now, you can "register" just like a newly married couple for the rest of your items, and include things like the large serving platter, and other special service pieces. It will be there in the future if you want to continue buying one piece at a time until you've got all twelve settings. Face it, as your family grows, the number of people at your table will, too. And there's always that nice couple across the street to invite.

You could also mention to people who ask that you are registered at Macy's for gifts.

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