It occurs to me that we have

A: a large amount of the traffic here is from men making the transition from bachelorhood to wedded bliss and B: a significant number of men who seem to be relatively happy with their marriages.

So.

Observation number one:

The number of married men who can remember what their wedding colors were after their 20th wedding aniversary is two. The number of married men who can remember whether or not their bride enjoyed her wedding day is all of them.

Rule number one:

WRT observation number one, the correct answer is not "I don't care" but rather, "What makes you happy?"

Corollary number one:

WRT to rule number one, if you do care you must say so. Gently.

Say she has selected a china pattern that Liberace would describe as tacky. You don't, in this scenario, want to see these plates again and again at every major holiday for the rest of your life.

Your bride, I assure you, is not caving in when she asks you "What will make you happy?" You aren't getting the Ducks Unlimited plates with the shotgun shells painted on the rim of the plates, and the major breeds of gundogs painted into the bottom of all the soup bowls. Oh no. She wants to build relationship with you, not procure man china.

What you do is A) go quietly buy a few pieces of the Liberace tacky pattern and dribble them out as gifts over the years to show you were listening and B) pray to God Almighty on bended knee with sweating brow that you can reach a compromise of the sort that won't cause your man friends to mock you.

Looking forward to similar sorts of additional guidance.