This, people, is what love looks like.
When Dave and I got married 35 years ago, we picked out this flatware as our “special” set. At the time, being dumb 22-year-olds, we bought only 6 place servings—“that will surely be plenty...why would we ever have a dinner party with more than 6?!” Of course, as we got older and entertained a LOT, we realized 6 sets was completely inadequate. But by that time the pattern was no longer made—in fact we found out much later that it was only manufactured for 6 years, 1983 (when we bought it) to 1989.
After the internet appeared in the late ‘90s, Dave would sometimes look online at out-of-stock places, but he’d only find a spoon here, a knife or two there...and for CRAZY prices ($75 for a spoon? Are you kidding me?!). So we just continued to love and use the 6 place settings, laughing at our youthful naïveté every time. The pattern never lost its appeal for us.
Then today, this Christmas morning, I opened this box. Dave spent the past YEAR looking for this pattern in earnest, buying up what he found, sending well-worn pieces to a professional polishing service. After trawling the internet daily, he finally hit the jackpot on Etsy in October: 5 teaspoons, 7 soup spoons, 5 dinner forks, 5 salad forks, and 2 knives in our wedding pattern. (AND inexpensive!) Adding that miracle haul to what he’d procured during the other months, he had collected SIX full place settings—giving us a total of TWELVE!
I admit it, I cried. Not because stainless steel flatware is so precious ... but because his love for me shows itself in this kind of thoughtful, romantic effort.
Merry Christmas everyone. #love #christmas #gifts #special #merrychristmas
