Today's Coolchickies List Wedding Tip

From Ms. Paige Casey:

1. Register for 4 more than you need if you think this pattern is keeper
(or is made of anything like stoneware or pottery) to allow for breakage
without inconvenience. For an entertaining such as yourself, I'm thinking
service for 12.

2. While other people are paying, pick out some fun ancillary setting pieces
- the rimmed soup bowls, the deep cereal bowls, salad plates AND b&b plates.

3. Think of multiuses - could the big cereal bowl be a serving bowl? Could
the pickle dish be a salad plate (my personal favorite improvisation)?

4. Go for the KitchenAid. I didn't, and I regret it.

5. Get good pots n' pans & knives. (I love, love, love my All Clad
stainless. My cuisine freak friend returned her Calphalon high end stuff
for it after 4 years of aggravation & dissatisfaction with it)

6. Get lots of serving bowls and round platters. One or two oval.

7. Get 18/10 stainless vs. 18/8, and get knives that are of 2pc construction (a blade in a shaft -- hee, shaft) vs. one pc from a mold - that makes them more durable and sturdy for cuttin'.

8. I'm a big fan of a "charger plate" (or round platter) under a dinner
plate as a placemat or as part of a table setting.

9. Good glass is just as nice as crystal.

10. Silver's for inheriting.