This china (Haviland Blue Garland) has been in the dishwasher a lot. It's all fine and hasn't even lost it's silver band.
MIL brought this to us in CA in the 1980's and I used it quite a bit until we put in the woodstove and got the jelly cupboard. Then I decided it could live there. Now it's not used as much though I do still use some pieces.
The wedding china went into a kitchen cabinet so that we would use it. Hasn't happened. We use cloth napkins everyday and most are blue. The wedding china is brown. But we did use it before getting the MIL's. Which by the way was 1960's grocery store china. You know - spend so much and buy the piece of the week for x?