There is a nice article in the September 10th, 2007 issue of HFN by Allison Zisko. (Unfortunately at the time of this post they did not have this article online, otherwise I'd link to it.) I liked her term "better casual" to describe what consumers are buying. I agree the bridal market needs to rediscover tabletop...as does the general marketplace.
It's also interesting how many Americans are doing their shopping at Wal-mart. If you're a fine china brand and you don't want to be in Wal-mart, you immediately get boxed out. One could say Wal-mart is the real world equivalent of Google. If you're not in Wal-mart or Google–you might as well not exist.
There is also another interesting point one can see in the distribution channel chart. You see that the distribution form that grew the most (2%) was "Other." This other entails online sales, television sales, and any other outlets. I wonder at what point Internet will get its own classification. Most likely it's already equal to or bigger than Supermarkets (2% total) and Catalogs (2% total) which have their own respective categories.