Weddingbee Blog

Let’s talk about the “L Word”….

No, not ’love’… LINENS!

Let’s talk about how our potential rental company thinks they can charge $30 to rent a plain white tablecloth. Can’t you actually purchase them at that price? No, you can’t. You can actually purchase them for much cheaper, like $17.

Hello?

That’s almost half off, and I would own them! But what would I do with 20 tablecloths after our wedding? Storage is key in the Glossy household, and apparently tablecloths en masse weigh a ton. I’ve never held 20 tablecloths, but they must be pretty beefy if people are looking to charge me $140 for shipping and handling.

So, in true Miss Gloss fashion, I asked myself, “How can I make this work for less $$$?”

Option #1: Rent from a linen rental company. Cost - $9.99! This seemed reasonable until they tacked on $140 for S&H (to and from included).

Option #2: Make them. I can get a 15-yard bolt of muslin at Jo-Ann fabric for $107. If I waited for a 50% off coupon, that would be around $13/table. And maybe I could do an in-store pick up to avoid shipping and handling charges. I don’t think muslin would look terrible with our design scheme, but it might need to be tested.

Option #2.5: Buy 45″ wide fabric and have a seam run down the middle. We will have runners down the centers of the tables, so you wouldn’t see the seam except at the ends hanging down, which would be drape-y anyways. I would just need to locate some fabric for like $.99/yd. (which hasn’t happened yet) putting each table at around $9, or around $14 if the fabric was $1.50/yd.

Option #3: Give up on floor-length tablecloths. The smaller tablecloths are only 7 to 8 dollars to rent from our rental company. Would people really notice if they didn’t go to the floor with all the chairs pushed in? Also, we will be outside, so maybe it would be normal to have shorter ones.

What do you guys think? How important are floor-length linens?