I loved the festiveness of the plates. I had a theme throughout the Christmas season around the meaning/history of the song the 12 Days of Christmas and these plates and coordinating items were perfect from the smaller plates, table runner and garland. My preference would have been to have the plate be a but more studier or thicker to withstand a heavy items. I would have been confident with younger ones or elderly using one hand if they were studier. Loved them for what I needed and would buy again.