Weddingbee Blog

Ever since we moved our wedding to the barn field a short walk from the house, we have known we would need to have portapotties in the field. People who really want can walk up to the house (ie bride with big honking white dress) but our caterer strongly advised that we have two “portable restrooms” right there near the tents for the elderly/young/tired/lazy/drunk etc. He said he’d talk to the tent people to orchestrate it and get back to us with options. Then it turned out the tent people don’t “do” portapotties, so the caterer told us they were looking into possibilities for us and we could call them back for a quote (on that and the generator that we also have to rent - GAH!).

So when I called the tent people back…they gave me a quote for the generator. And said in HORROR - “What?? We don’t rent out portapotties! We told [the caterer] that you’d have to call another company directly for that!”

Um, WHAT?!?!?

So here we are, one month plus one day out from the wedding…which is on the “busiest day of the year” for our tent people…and we have to start FROM SCRATCH for our portable restrooms.

Of the two companies the tent people gave us, one hasn’t called back yet, and the other is all booked for all their regular fancy portable restrooms, so they only have The Prestige (can’t help thinking about the movie, which isn’t helping this image much) which, I swear, they tell us is the extra fancy one because……….it has glass toilets. So basically we’ll be paying hundreds of dollars more for the privilege of having our guests go in glass toilets.

Let’s just say “glass toilets” did not appear anywhere on my priorities list for my wedding.

The two companies the tent people gave us both specialize in “event” portable restrooms - the kind in a full trailer with sinks and wallpaper and porcelain fixtures - but since the only quote we were able to get out of anyone yesterday was nearly $1,000 for the glass toileted Prestige, we tried calling up some other people we came across on the internet. Who describe their portapotties as…”well, they’re nicer than a regular one.” Not entirely confidence inspiring when the other ones you’ve been looking at look like this:

[from www.igloos.co.uk - and also probably nicer than the "nice" options we were looking at]

But yeah, hard to go from a fancy shmancy trailer (glass toilets or no) to this…

[from www.whizmoandgizmo.com]

Miss Bluebell is sad. So so sad.

So yeah, is anyone else having to rent portable restrooms? Is it causing you great great misery also? How much are you paying, and what are you getting for it?

The quotes we have so far are:

• “better than a regular one” - $450 for two individual square ones, inc delivery.
• THE PRESTIGE - $795 rental + $250 delivery
• Out of Stock Exactly What We Wanted - $450 + $250 delivery (still way way more than we wanted to spend on…something we don’t really “want”)

[DISCLAIMER: I just sent this to Mr. Bluebell to verify the price quotes and was like "and are you SUUUURE they said glass toilets??? Because that's just freakish." His reply: "Yeah. Oh. Wait. I mean porcelain. Like a regular real toilet." Hahahaha, whoooops!]