Wedding presents still in use

My wedding present china, still loved and used, fifty five years on.
I divorced the chap more than thirty years ago.

I had to throw away my last remaining pan when we got an induction hob. It was really old and battered and regularly used as 'the egg pan' and i still can't cope with using an everyday pan to boil eggs.

We gave our canteen of cutlery to the church as it was so old fashioned but we still have sherry and liqueur glasses and the decanter. They look nice in the cabinet.

We are still using the John Lewis cutlery given to us by my parents, and a stainless steel strainer given to us by a member of the youth group I belonged to.

I've got some stuff still in use from my wedding, back in 1978. The husband's gone, but other items stood the test of time.
I've a set of " Splades" - a knife, fork and spoon all in one, in the kitchen drawer and they really are useful.
One of my favourite things though is a large white, unglazed jug. It has beautiful mouldings in relief around it. I think it's called a Pilgrims jug. It really is lovely and I use it whenever I receive flowers. Precious too as it was given by a very kind auntie, a lovely lady, now long gone, but remembered fondly.

Just the canteen of Sheffield plate that my mother and father gave us. It only gets used at Christmas now, but often made our table look really splendid when we had dinner parties, though the only time we managed to get my father, a man of plain tastes, to join us for Christmas he was rather overwhelmed by the number of items of “his” cutlery he was faced with. We just told him to use whatever he felt like using and ignore anything he regarded as superfluous!!

The other thing I still have is a Granton ham knife that was given to us by my parents next door neighbours. It has been in constant use for sixty years and when in 2019 the original bone handle fell apart, I contacted the firm here in Sheffield and they put a new resin handle on it. It should be good for another sixty years! DD has her name on it!

The only item I have left is my bright orange ironing board.Its had many a new cover on it in the 55 years I’ve owned it.

I regularly use a carving tray, though the matching knife and fork are no longer around. For Christmas and special occasions, I use the cutlery set we were given. I have two left of a set of six whisky glasses, but do not use them.

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My trusty old Kenwood Chef. We did once have to get it repaired and serviced, but that can’t be bad for a present bestowed in 1974!

The only other present we still have is a lovely little Indian silver box, from a sister who asked whether I’d like something beautiful and useless.🙂

My 1974 Kenwood started playing up mid baking for a sale. DH replaced it immediately via on line purchase. The old Kenwood languishes in the garage.

My trusty old Kenwood Chef. We did once have to get it repaired and serviced, but that can’t be bad for a present bestowed in 1974!

The only other present we still have is a lovely little Indian silver box, from a sister who asked whether I’d like something beautiful and useless.🙂

We’ve been married 37 years and still use the toasted sandwich maker which was a wedding present . We’ve got a few items left from an everyday crockery set. Ditto everyday glasses .

We still have a number of things which we received as wedding presents (42 years ago) and which are regularly in use, including towels, chopping boards, a mixing bowl, casserole dishes and probably more. I'm also using several items which my late MiL received as wedding presents, which would be in the early 1950s.