To be annoyed at some items on my friends wedding list

[snitchrose168]

I really don't know if I have a right to be mad at this but I am. My friend is getting married next month and we have discussed the wedding list. She decided to go with white denby. Very nice. She was at my house last month and commented on my nice Jamie Oliver dinner set. It's white with a little stripe pattern. I love it. I have just logged on to her wedding list and there is no white denby. In it's place is Jamie Oliver's entire set! I am a little miffed.

Gift her yours and spend the money on a new one for yourself?

Pootling!!!!

OOh I love a bit of Willow pattern putriyno...

When I was younger I don't think my family could have ever had a whole matching set. We had one plate from the 'pretty' link, one 'funky' AND a 'swirly' How the hell did that happen? I suspect my mother may be one of those people who invite people round who bring cake with them and then the plate is never returned to them. This is why I have two of MIL's plates in the cupboard anyway...

You know what i would love ... a tea set like you only get in village halls and at WI meetings ... they're sort of utility green and blue and wibbly....

Oddly enough, unless you commission a dinner service in an edition limited to one, there's a reasonable chance that someone else may have the sheer brass neck to use the same crockery. Instead of being unrealistically silly about this, why not congratulate your friend on having the same impeccable taste as you? Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Or so I've heard.

When I got married, this was all the rage!

My mum too OP.

Sigh.

Cant you look at it another way?

Cant you be flattered that she admires your taste so much she has copied it???

whoops pootling yes I meant your links!

My taste has always been a little on the interesting side so every time the 60s/70s stuff comes back I get very excited!!!

Great isn't it? Makes me think we are just a bit 'uniform' these days (either white, off white or Kath Kidson fake retro)

this is my tea set :)

Oooh that is preeeety....

pootling - !!! that link is horrifying!

My problem is that I quite often look at things and can't actually work out whether I think they are utterly beautiful or utterly foul.

It's a bit of a prob

thanks

she should get them now on sale in debenhams and put something else on her list tbh.... she could get them dirt cheap and get a load of nicer stuff as he wedding gifts.

Such a boring wedding gift, I always refuse to buy people plain white crockery from wedding lists, no way in hell I am I spending my cash on overpriced white dishes!

Eh? Yeah, YABU. A bit petty as well. As to the question of white Denby and Jamie Oliver dinnerware, I guess there really is not accounting for sense of taste.

Pootling
my mum & dad had the pwetty one, and my grandad hadthe funky one

my ex's mum had the entire 70s set, though, so don't like that one

Do you mean Beryl Pootling? My grandma and grandad had that.

Oh i do purple

Fantastic - now i know what to look out for ...

Probably.

Did you think your set was unique?

we've got those in the village hall!
proper church and village hall cups, they are.
and school canteens.