Not enough matching napkins...

[Laura Palmer]

I'm hosting Thanksgiving. And I'm having more people than I have of the napkins I wanted to use. (They're gorgeous and I love them.) I have plenty of white and I suppose I can give a few people white ones...but is that tacky? I'm so mad! They don't sell the ones I want more of, or I'd just get more. (Nothing on ebay, online, or in stores.) I hate mismatched things - not my style, even though I don't think anyone would notice or care. But I care!

Sorry to vent.

[Deleted]

Use the white ones, rotate them in half and half to make it look intentional and call it a day.
Or go get some in a coordinating color/pattern and rotate them in.
When hosting a major holiday esp. for more than 10 people I think it's expected you won't have enough of any one thing. We rotate Thanksgiving for 40ish every year. I'm not storing that much extra stuff to use every 4 years.

And if anyone at my house b*tches about something like napkin selection well they don't have to come back!

I know what you mean though. I like pretty too.

[tarheels]

I'd rotate with a coordinating napkin. Does white match what you have on the table? I'm just picturing cream or fall colored Tday linens and white would stick out like a sore thumb and make it look worse.

[sierramist03]

We rotate I have a mixture of red and mustard and also christmas, etc.

[mrs.jacinthe]

Another vote for rotating them every other place setting. That way it looks intentional.

Also ... when I was a kid and mom hosted the entire family for thanksgiving, we used washcloths for napkins at the kids' table so that the nice napkins wouldn't get spoiled by the sloppies.

[floridakat]

Do you have more than one table of people? We have thirty-ish people every year, and I decorate each table differently. Different linens, plates, centerpieces, etc.

[Laura Palmer]

Thanks ladies. I could rotate the white and might have to do that. I'm just feeling bratty and don't want to have to do that. We're having 10 and should fit at one table, so unfortunately it's not an option to have different settings.

The white could go. Not sure what color tablecloth yet, but all my dishes are white and I like the white against any of my linen options. Oh well!

[auntie]

I'd do the white and use the docorative ones to line baskets of rolls or under the centerpiece.

[Laura Palmer]

I did find a Sur La Table (not my closest) who has 14 sets of these! So I'm headed there today and will get three sets, even though I only need one.

I am so excited I can't even breathe!

Thanks ladies. MH and my mom think I'm crazy, but she's coming with me and will understand when she feels them.

[TBM]

I'm glad that you found them.

I keep looking at this post thinking that you might post a picture...I am curious to see such special napkins.

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Nov 3, 2012 8:30:27 GMT -5 TBM said:

I'm glad that you found them.

I keep looking at this post thinking that you might post a picture...I am curious to see such special napkins.

Ha! Totally! I thought the same thing.
I am happy you found them. I can be over excited about weird stuff too, so I hear you.

[Laura Palmer]

lol they're not really anything special.

Sur La Table bistro napkins in taupe. The color is just really pretty and I think they're so soft and just...very nice. My other napkins are so BLAH and I get excited to use these. They're really nothing special to anyone except me.