Old wedding presents still used

I have a dinner service that I bought just after my wedding……..it’s kept for ‘best’ and rarely used. I also have a glass vase that my DGM bought for my 21st birthday which was not long after I married. I’ve treasured it ever since but doubt that it will be so loved when I’m gone.

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What a great idea Cariad!!

Thank you. It was sure and certain the most useful present I could have asked for and, without it, I'm not sure whether I could have stretched far enough to get average level 2 bed house in average area and might have had to settle for a 1 bedroom flat instead and I was scared I'd get trapped in it for goodness-knows-how-long. I did get trapped - for a LONG time - in my starter house....but at least it was a house and not a flat - whew! No maintenance charges, an extra bedroom I could (and did) use to get some lodger income initially.

Rolling pin, dinner service-still intact but we only use it 4-5 times a year. A cut glass
vase I use every time I get a bouquet big enough, and one of those enamelled casseroles with a dimpled lid.
Oh and my ironing board, though it has had many replacement covers.

I have been married 67.5 years. Still have and use a blue plastic type. Mixing bowl and a bread bin with stuff in ( junk).it was from my lovely Aunt Vera.

I still use my parents bread board and the sharpest bread knife ever plus green enamelled bread bin from their wedding in the early 1940s. Also their bone handled knives daily.
I use our wedding present Moulinex blender and coffee bean grinder, the blender for banana milkshakes which DH drinks daily. I will have a think of more.

I don’t think I still have any of my own wedding presents, but we do still have a Spode dinner service that was a wedding present to my parents in 1935. It lives at my son’s house because I don’t have space for it. I doubt if it’s used much, if at all.

Kitchen utensils from my much loved friend who died young. A Pyrex bowl with lid ( autumnal design) was part of an engagement present. Denby Cotswold dinner set and a set of cutlery. Probably a few more things dotted around too. Engaged 48 years ago.

Sorry 51 years ago! Have no idea why I pressed the 6.

I still use a bread board daily that was given to us as a wedding present just over 56 years ago.

I'm still using 2 or 3 plates that were my mother's wedding china, mum and dad were married in 1942. Myself and husband married 1983, only recently had to bin a slow cooker that was a wedding gift to us. We still have towels and dish towels, that we use along with a set of casserole dishes, also a baking bowl from my husband's late aunt which she gave us. Sadly, all our electrical gifts packed in years ago.

My trusty old wedding present Kenwood Chef (I’ll be using it later for yet more mince pie pastry) will be 53 this coming June.

What a great idea Cariad!!

I still use a bread board which my parents had as a Wedding present in 1952. I am still using a le Creuset casserole which my late aunt gave me in 1976 - 49 years ago.

Crikey! A 56 year old iron = that's value for money.

I have a "wedding present" that's nearly 40 years old - part of my deposit for my first house that I got as a "wedding present" from my father.

I'd got to the stage of absolutely desperate for my starter house (as I'm from a home-owning family and was well into my 30's and still not got a home yet). Long story - but I finally got a chance (through absolute fluke of a way to get most of the house deposit I needed). My erstwhile younger brother had just got married and the two of them together had bought a house...and I was virtually kicking the ceilings to still not have mine until that fluke of a way came along. Being about 4 years older than erstwhile brother = I think my father knew I was about to explode any minute if I had to wait for a house any longer.

Because he'd just got married and my mother had commented that the wedding present from them had been a washing machine and a tumble dryer and I'd figured out that those two together were probably around £600 = I turned round to the logical parent out of the two of them (ie my father) and said "Can I have my wedding present now please and, if I ever do get married then I accept I'll have already had that present?". He saw the logic of that and I got given my £600 at that point to put towards my house deposit and it just about (to the £) filled the gap between the deposit I'd acquired and the huge deposit I needed to buy a starter house on my poor solo income.

As we know - I never ever did meet "The One" and so I didnt get married - but at least I managed to get my wedding present still. So I've been getting the use of it so to say ever since...(ie tied-up in my house equity). One of my better decisions that was....ie to ask for the wedding present still. I know the thought hadnt crossed my mothers mind...

The cutlery we use is from our wedding, 1972.

Also our ‘best’ dinner service, only used very occasionally.

The towels I use for swimming another present.

A couple of pillowcases and a colander are the only things that come to mind although I do still have a kitchen knife and a Morphy Richards non-steam iron which pre-date the wedding by several years. I think the iron was purchased in 1967 and the knife in 1969.

What a lovely thread! I have some Pyrex dishes and bone china tea service from my own wedding, still in use.

However they’re topped by my mam and dad’s silver cutlery wedding gifts which sat in the front room sideboard, kept for best and rarely used after my mother died young.

I asked my dad if I could have them and he agreed - I use them daily with fondest memories. Lovely things don’t belong in cupboards and drawers…

Ironing board here too, from our wedding in the early 80’s and it is used at least once a week.
We also have various pieces of crockery from then too, mostly in frequent use.

I don’t have a ‘best’ set of anything; things earn their keep here or out they go I’m afraid!

Take photos Grammaretto before you get rid is my advice. Nice to look back on.

The oldest item we use, mainly at Christmas, is the gravy boat from my parent's set of crockery. They married in 1945.

Decluttering, I keep coming across things I have a sentimental attachment to.
I wish I didn't.

The dinner service, with one soup dish missing. Would anyone want it? I doubt it.
When I go it will all be thrown out I'm fairly sure so I'm trying to part with stuff now.
I'm still using our wedding present towels from 1969.

We were given a Pyrex dinner service (Chelsea design) as a present from my colleagues. We still have the gravy boat. We married in 1969.

I have a soup ladle that’s 32 years old and was second hand when given to us as a wedding present 👍🤣

Our best dinner service and slver (plate) cutlery - still used on high days and holidays. The beautiful antiue chest of drawers DPiL gave us as a wedding present.

My ironing board was DPiL's. I grabbed it, after both died so it probably dates to WW2. Wool blankets, now used as under-blankets. Som ecurtains that my Grandmother bought in 1947, after her house, which was destroyed in the blitze was rebuilt.

A flower vase from my best friend.

It was part of a set of three but is the only survivor from 1972!