This is the stupid postcard from Crate & Barrel

I came home from work one day and received the lovely postcard above from Crate & Barrel. It told me that the everyday dishes that Phil & I took so long to pick out were being discontinued in July. As I briefly explained in my previous posts about registering Phil & I took a long time picking out our dishes and the Marin dinnerware was basically the only dishes we liked together and had all the serving pieces that we wanted. I went into straight up wedding panic mode. I called the customer service number on the postcard and talked to the C&B customer service lady; who basically did not help me one bit. I asked her why the dinnerware was being discontinued and she didn’t know why corporate did it. I asked her for other suggestions, all she did was read off all the other dishes on the website, which I could have easily done myself. Let this be noted that the Marin dinnerware is listed as a recommended dinnerware set on the C&B website and it also it is the best selling dinnerware set for wedding registries. So it did not make sense to me, the average Crate and Barrel Bride, why “corporate” would stop making such a popular pattern. I was angry and sad at the same time. It was weeks before my first shower in Cleveland and I didn’t know what to do about the dishes. So Phil and I had only 3 options pick another set, stick with the Marin set and hope for the best, or buy the entire set ourselves before July. Phil and I couldn’t buy everything in the set ourselves because it just simply wasn’t in the budget. After looking at the C&B website we didn’t like any other of the dinnerware patterns. So we went with the last option and we stuck with the Marin set and are hoping for the best. So if you are reading this and you need to get us a wedding gift you can get us anything from the Marin collection at Crate & Barrel, it would be awesome 🙂

My reaction when I got the postcard from Crate & Barrel

UPDATE: A day after I posted this entry about our dishes I got a call and an email from Crate & Barrel telling us that they were mistaken in sending out the postcards stating that the Marin dinnerware was being discontinued and that only ONE piece in the collection, a pitcher, was the only item being discontinued. I was in shock and relieved. I was happy that we didn’t have to rush to get our everyday dishes and all the pieces. But I wanted those 3 days back that I stressed over deciding to keep them on our registry. Thanks to my Mom, Phil’s Mom, and Kendra for buying some of the pieces of the set before we knew that it wasn’t going to be discontinued in July.