Weddingbee Blog

Sometimes it can mean “green” and “convenient.”

Let’s rewind a little: A couple months back we were trying to work out all the items we need to hire for our reception. That’s the real downside of a venue like ours—almost nothing is provided (except a few tables, a hot water contraption, and one tiny canopy) so we have to bring everything in ourselves. And dealing with hire companies is pretty much my least favourite part of wedding planning. Anyway, long story short, the hireage list was expanding, the cost of it all was ballooning out of control (um, how much for a tiny dessert fork???), we were having to go to more than one hire company to get what we wanted, and all of that combined was turning something that should be simple into too much complicated business.

So we re-thought what we actually did need and whether there were some things we could beg, borrow or steal (just kidding…not much stealing…).

This way we managed to pare what we needed to hire from outside sources to just the 100 chairs for the reception from one single company. So much better.

One way that helped us achieve this was deciding to go the disposable route for utensils and dinner plates. After talking with our caterers, they agreed to provide compostable plates for no extra charge. Yay! All that was left for us to figure out were the eating utensils. I hated the idea of plastic, but wasn’t sure what our other options were.

Until I saw these pics:

From Mrs. Poodle

Mrs. Hot Dog’s Idea

And these

Cute, right? Perfect for a picnic wedding. After a little searching, I managed to find a source for these wooden utensils and a whole bunch of biodegradable napkins here in NZ. So now we just need a basket, some twine and maybe a stamp or two and we’ll see what magic we can work with these babies.

Did you go disposable for some elements of your wedding?