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I have 8. However, I wish I would have gotten 12. I have contemplated going back because our set is still in the stores, but I've just been lazy.

I only have ten of our good stuff, but it was my great-grandmother's so it is very hard to get additional settings. I have 16 of our everyday and like having that much. It's good for entertaining and not stressing if any break, etc.

We didn't register for china, but my MIL has been gifting it to us slowly for Christmas gifts. Currently, we only have 4! I would say 12-16 is an ideal number for us!

We have 8 place settings of china my mother gifted us for our wedding in 2011. The box is still unopened....oops!

12 of our everyday dishes and 12 of our good china.

@Foodnerd81: Do you find they break more now a days? I swear when I was a kid we had the same set of glasses for my entire childhood. In fact, I think my mom still has some of the original ones. I think in a year or so I'll need to either get another replacement box (if the set still exists) or replace our glasses. Which I don't want to do because I LOVE ours.

@.twist.: My mom only let us use Tupperware glasses, so I have no idea! But I think it depends on the glasses-- some are thicker and heavier, so less likely to tip over, and if they tip, less likely to break, where the ones we chose are a little thinner and more delicate, so if they tip, yeah, they stand a good chance of breaking. Plus, we had Formica counters growing up and we have quartz or granite here, so it's harder and again, more likely to break them.

All that to say-- yeah, I don't know. We haven't broken THAT many but I think we need to get some plastic ones for when LO gets here.

we have 16 place settings for our china and 12 for our regular every day dishes.

@mrs. bird: no, we have a small kitchen. Our china is stored in a china cabinet in another part of our house!

We have our normal dishes which are not really even a set.

We also have our fancy dishes, which is one of the presents i most wanted on our wedding gift registry!! We use them for at home "date nights" and special occasions like guests and holidays. We have 12 place settings.

We don't have fancy china. We got married not too long after we bought our first house and I never got around to picking a set I liked. I figured I'll just wait until one comes up and in the meanwhile, we'll use cheap Ikea plates. Years later, we still haven't bought decent plates! I did find silverware I like though and we have enough for 12 or 16? Half of it is still in the box. We don't entertain much.