The Elusive Plate Debate

We started our registries kind of early. I read somewhere that you should do it quickly in case anyone wanted to send us an engagement present. No one did, the interwebs lied to be me yet again. Sad face.

Now, I am going to introduce you to something that I usually get the same reaction to. That reaction:

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I realize that this is a little weird... But what others sometimes don't realize about me, is that I have kind of a morbid sense of humor. Also, somewhere along the line I became obsessed with the theory of death meaning change, that every ending is a new beginning. The best reason or example I have of this is the always misinterpreted death tarot card. Which is simply a symbol of Change, the End of This Stage and the Beginning of a New Stage. I'm not a very spiritual person, but this has always had a lot of meaning to me.

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A little bit more on the bright side of things, I have a lotus flower tattooed on my back as a symbol of rebirth. But that is another post, I don't have any pictures of this tattoo on me right now.

Anywho...

I have a dream kitchen. I have planned for a long time that when I finally get a house and my own kitchen, I am going to deck it out in a Mexican Day of the Dead theme (If you don't want to follow that link and you're wondering where the link between all that babbling and this is, the Day of the Dead is a celebration of death and honoring of dead relatives and I like the way it is something morbid highlighted with celebration. Go with it, I know it's tough!)

Of course I want to do it tastefully and not go overboard, but I want to start with a lot of bright, primary colors and then decorate from there. Mostly I was interesting in using the brightly colored flowers often seen on sugar skulls.

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See? Morbid can be bright and fun, too!

So, registering gave me a good starting place because I could register for things in my color scheme.



I found and fell in love with these plates at the very beginning of my registry. Laurie Gates, Lola.

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I love the colors and the flowers. It wans't too girly and you could definitely see how it related to the sugar skulls.

Big problem. Clearance. They were gone within a week of my finding them and I was a little bit more than devastated. (A little bit more meaning freaking out to all my friends and family at the loss of my perfect plates.)

I searched and I searched and I finally found something comparable. Actually, something better! You see, on top of my bright Mexican primary color thing, my favorite color is green and BFs is orange, so I wanted to use both of these colors a lot. And here they are, I present Laurie Gates Tess Collection:(Source)

I'm in lurrrrve!! They are perfect for fun, casual dinnerware that I can show off instead of hiding in the cabinets like our bright red uglies and collections of random plastic bits we have right now!I cannot wait to get stacks of these and start eating off of them! Yippeeee!

Yeah... so, I'm excited.

But I also wanted some 'nice' plates in case we ever have company. However, I was not prepared to ask people to pay the prices of fine china. I just couldn't do it. I happened to also fall in love with some Laurie Gates plates that I thought would be good for 'nice' dinners:

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No, the reason I like them has nothing to do with the fact that they're my other favorite color eggplant which just happens to also be our wedding color. Why would you think that?

OK, that's why I love them. So sue me.

Has anything simple given you the run around during the entire engagement/registering/wedding process? And anybody else out there with a weird obsession/dream kitchen?