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Favorite Melamine Dishes for Colorful Unbreakable Outdoor Entertaining
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items I love entertaining with melamine dishes because they are lightweight and unbreakable. They're great for garden parties, barbecues, dinners on the deck or patio. They're dishwasher safe, but don't do well in microwaves. Here are some of my favorites ...
Here's the Portofino melamine dinnerware set from Certified International. It has an Italian inspired floral motif, with red, blue, and yellow colors. Great for serving Italian food outdoors alfresco.
Certified International Portofino 12pc Melamine Set
Here's the perfect unbreakable dinnerware for your beach house deck or patio. This is Certified International's Oceanic design set. It comes with a dinner plate, salad plate, and pasta/cereal bowl. The designs include a turtle, a seahorse and a starf...
Certified International Oceanic 12pc Melamine Set
This Talavera set of melamine dishes is the one I use at my lake house. I love the Moroccan tile style design, with green, light blue and dark blue colors. Great for serving Greek or Mediterranean style foods outdoors.
Talavera Melamine 12-Piece Dinnerware Set
Here's a nice set of melamine dishes for serving lunch at your beach house. It's called "Ocean View." The scene shows two striped beach chairs set out under a red umbrella, overlooking the shore.
Certified Intl Ocean View Dinnerware Set
Here is the "Beachcomber" set of melamine dishes from Certified International. The motif shows a starfish, seahorses, and blue coral. Great for beach houses.
Certified Intl Beachcomber 12pc Melamine Set
The "Vera Cruz" melamine dinnerware set has a blue and yellow floral motif. There are yellow accented side plates, salad and dinner plates, and bowls. The edges are trimmed in brick orange.
Certified Int'l Vera Cruz 12pc Dinnerware
Here's a set of bee-themed melamine dishes that are perfect for early spring garden parties. The motif includes bees, flowers and blossoms.
Certified Int'l Bee Sweet 12-Pc Melamine Set
Here's the "Lemon Zest" melamine dishes from Certified International. They're ideal for a late summer picnic or outdoor party on a hot day. I like to serve Mediterranean food on them.
Lemon Zest 12-Piece Melamine Dinnerware Set
Here's a patriotic Stars and Stripes set of melamine dishes you can use on Fourth of July, or be patriotic year-round and bring them out for barbecues.
Certified Intl Stars & Stripes 12pc Dinnerware
Here's a cream and navy nautical option for your boat, beach house or seaside condo. The melamine dishes show a seahorse, an octopus, and undersea plants.
Sea Life Melamine 12-Piece Coastal Dinnerware Set
I own and love this Talavera set of serving trays. I use them for Mexican food, Middle Eastern food, or chips and dip. You can put your salsa, guacamole or French onion dip in the center bowl and surround it with veggies or chips. These can go in the...
Talavera 3-Piece Melamine Serveware Set
French Bull has over-the-top unusual patterns on their melamine dishes - so fun and colorful! This salad plate is from their "Bindi" line.
French Bull 9" Melamine Bindi Salad Plate
French Bull is not afraid to use bold colors. This is the "Bindi" design set of melamine plates, with blue, green, orange and pink.
French Bull 4pc 11in Melamine Plates
Here's the "Bindi" melamine serving tray from French Bull. So colorful! Great for veggies.
French Bull 13" Rectangular Melamine Platter
If you're throwing an elegant garden party but still want to have unbreakable dishes, how about this lovely floral tray from Pimpernel? It uses the "Strawberry Thief" pattern that Art Nouveau artist William Morris created in the late 1800s.
Pimpernel Morris & Co Strawberry Thief Blue Tray
Here's a zany, colorful set of melamine dishes from Gibson Home. Fruits and tomatoes look so fantastic on these plates!
Gibson Almira Melamine Dinnerware 12pcs
I know a lot of people who decorate with blue. Here's the "Vineyard" set of melamine dishes from Gibson Home. It features beige, teal and blue leaves delicately arranged on an off-white background.
Gibson Home Vineyard Melamine Dinner Plate 9"
These colorful melamine cereal bowls from French Bull are so fun! I actually use them to serve my neighbor kids ice cream when we have ice cream parties. (They fight over the pink one though!)
French Bull Melamine Cereal Bowls, 6-Pack
These colorful "Fringe" melamine plates from French Bull are perfect for outdoor birthday parties. They look so cute with a slice of cake on them!
French Bull Melamine Plates 6-Piece Set
This multicolor vibrant patterned set of melamine plates is "Aurora" from the French Bull company. These are so pretty!
French Bull Melamine Plates 6-Piece Set
Gibson Home's "Cottage Stripe" melamine dishes might be nice at a lake house or mountain cabin. The stripes are in brown, aqua, and mustard.
Gibson Cottage Stripes 12pc Melamine Set
Here's a Tuscan inspired set of melamine dishes from Upware. Use them for wine parties, Italian food or Mediterranean potlucks.
UPware 12pc Tuscany Melamine Dinnerware Set
Here is a lovely blue and white platter for serving Mediterranean food in particular. It's by Upware.
UPware Blue Floral 19 Inch Melamine Round Platter
I am crazy about lemons, and I love this Mediterranean inspired "Palermo" set of melamine dishes from Le Cadeaux. The lemons are arranged around a blue tile motif.
Le Cadeaux 12-Piece Luxury Melamine Set
I have blue hydrangeas in my back yard, so naturally I bought a small set of these melamine dishes for my garden parties. I love that there is a butterfly in the motif!
Hydrangea Garden 12pc Melamine Dinnerware Set
Here's the perfect beach house or lake house set of melamine dishes: The blue and white "Mediterraneo" from Le Cadeaux. Trimmed in a wave pattern, they show fish bones and flowers.
Le Cadeaux 12pc Luxury Melamine Dinnerware Set
The colors on this "Valencia Orange" set of melamine dishes are so vibrant! They are great for Mediterranean food. The company who makes them is Le Cadeaux.
Le Cadeaux: Valencia
If you really like orange, then boy do I have a lovely set of dishes for you! This is "Sicily Orange" from the Le Cadeaux melamine dishes company. Fantastic for outdoor summer entertaining. I can say though, sliced red tomatoes do not look good prese...
Le Cadeaux: Sicily Orange
Here's a lovely Greek inspired "Capri" set of melamine dishes. They feature a yellow border, blue and yellow flowers with red accents. Great for hearty meals served outside in the fresh air.
Le Cadeaux: Capri Collection
Here's a vibrant Spanish pattern you can use to serve tapas or Mexican food. "Flores" is a set of melamine dishes for outdoor entertaining from the Certified International company.
Flores Melamine 12 Pc Dinnerware Set for 4