Hi, I'd like to talk to you today about the best and worst wedding silver that you can buy. Okay, so wedding silver is quite often bought by the Brides family or the groom's family for the Lucky Couple. They get either sterling or stainless or if they're a very Lucky Couple, both. When I got married 41 years ago, I got, in stainless, the Michelangelo pattern by O'Nyda. It's served as very well. We use it every single day. It's a nice pattern. My nephew just got married and what pattern does he choose out of the blue? Michelangelo by O'Nyda. We found that we could get some brand new on eBay for like $125 for a service for six with servers. That's cheaper than we got it at our wedding, you know, the 41 years ago. So for stainless, new stainless, I would say eBay is a pretty good place to get it. I had not quite as good experience with the stainless that I got for my new home in Florida two years ago. We chose a reading burden stainless. It was quite expensive, but it was exactly what we wanted. It had a Florida theme to it. It had all different shells on the handles and it was not inexpensive. It was over $100 a place setting. Less than a year after we got it, the shells were falling off and the blades were pitted. So anyway, I don't know if the stainless steel has deteriorated, but 41 years ago was good and we're still enjoying it. Now, for the worst wedding silver, there are two. One is Christophel Silver Plate. I love the looks of Christophel Silver Plate. They really do a good job with it. But if you're thinking ever of selling it, it's not a good thing. I've had two brides call me with sets they had never used, paid about $17,000 for their sets. I offered $1,500 and they got many other offers and mine was the best. They're with sterling. It's almost unheard of today where a person would get silver for their wedding and turn it back in later and not get more than they paid for it. If you were in my time, married in the 1970s, you would get four or five times, four or five hundred percent of what you paid for it in today's market because silver's gone from four dollars and ounce up to 20 and that's carried the price of the flatware along with it. Another very poor buy is sterling from a retail store. I think it's terribly overpriced. For example, this grand brook that we sell, we sell it for about $200 a place setting for four piece. The price in the store close to 1,000, five times more than you can buy it from matching service. Okay. Some brides say they want new silver. That is not a problem. We're amazed how many sets we're getting in that have never been used. In the last few days, I got a set of this, a gene weave gold service for 14 never used. I got another set yesterday of English on's low. Beautiful set, service for 24 in the plastic wraps. With English silver, you can date it exactly. It was made in the year 1969. So 40 plus years never used. And again, very small percentage of the new price. Okay. So what patterns do I recommend? Well the traditional ones are grand brook, grants is the first. Some others, oh shantilly, of course. Very popular. All of those are around $200 a place setting for four piece. I told you about the special that we had in the gene weave gold, about $225 for that. But if I was getting silver today, I would want something higher in. Because those deals are even better. So acorn by Jensen. It's been popular forever. And this one is $395 for four piece. And in the stores, it's like 1900. So really good by. One of our most popular patterns today is the cactus by Jensen. A little more than the acorn, but it's a great look. And young people really are buying this pattern. You also can get no longer made patterns that have a really good look. This one's super popular right now. This bamboo by Tiffany, it was made in the 1960s. We can't keep this in stock. Again, little higher, about $600 a place setting. But you're getting something that's top and really popular for 40% less than normal store silver. Another thing that is an option is some mid-century modern silver. Now this one is called Jubilee by Read and Barton. It was featured in Jewelstern's book Modernism in America. It's a really good looking pattern. It's not common. And I think it's got a very bright future. And this one is about $200 a place setting. It's hard to find, but it'd be a really good choice for young Mary's because I think it's really going to appreciate years to come. Thank you.