77: Picking the perfect china pattern

77 days to go!

We registered a long time ago - like last April or early May.

I L-O-V-E to shop (what girl doesn't) so I was very excited about setting up our registries and going into Macy's and checking out the goods and using the little scanner to add items. We set up two registries. One at Macy's and one at Crate & Barrel. The Macy's registry has the bulk of our items on it and it was the only of the two stores that we actually visited to add things to the registry. We completed the entire Crate & Barrel registry online.

One of the obstacles we faced when adding items to our registry was picking out a china pattern and deciding if we needed/wanted a "fancy" china and an everyday china.

We decided that we did want to go ahead and register for both so we picked out this Kate Spade china for our "fancy" china:

Kate Spade St. Kitts Nag's Head Dinnerware Collection

And later we added this Lenox pattern to be our everyday dishes:

Lenox Aspen Ridge

I love the Lenox dishes. I really wanted something that was plain and white. A pattern that I could use different accent pieces with and dress up with fun and exciting place mats and napkins and general tableware. When Macy's sent me an email with an announcement of this new line of Lenox china I just knew it was the perfect pattern I had been searching for.

After some debating we decided that we really didn't need both a "fancy" china and an everyday dish set so we went ahead and removed the Kate Spade china from our registry and kept just Lenox pattern.

I think the timeless pattern will be perfect for us!