Mix-and-Match China for Your Wedding Registry

In doing a bit of online searching for Mottahedeh and Haviland & Parlon on MarthaStewartWeddings.com we stumbled across these images.

If you're tonally challenged, stick to one palette -- but contrast decorative elements such as botanicals with geometrics. "Blue Fluted Mega" bread-and-butter plate by Royal Copenhagen; "Blue Lace" dinner plate by Mottahedeh.

Darkness Reigns

It reinforces the subtle textures of fluted edges; and in a charger, the color acts as a great framing device. Insect plate by Ted Muehling for Nymphenburg; fluted-edge plates by Porzellan Nymphenburg; dessert bowl by Heath Ceramics; black lace plate by Mottahedeh; espresso set by Bernardaud.

Black Lace Service plate (S1705BK - $115)