Chair Covers | 12k Wedding Blog

April 16, 2009 by Mrs. 12k | Filed in: Reception

After a tip from a middle school friend of mine (shout-out to Alicia!), I have secured a vendor for our tablecloths and chair covers.

I ended up choosing ivory pintuck tablecloths with champagne pillowcase chair covers. And I am very pleased. The rates were very reasonable and she had a decent selection to choose from.

The vendor we chose is Unique Chair Covers. Ashley was super easy to work with and had lots of good ideas but made sure that I was comfortable with the choices. We clicked so much in fact, that Unique Chair Covers is now a featured 12k Sponsor. I would highly recommend Ashley and her company to anyone in the Metro Detroit area. And as you know faithful readers, I do my best to not steer you wrong.

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Chair Cover and Tablecloth Together

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On Renting Tablecloths

April 11, 2009 by Mrs. 12k | Filed in: Reception

So today, I was out doing wedding stuff with a friend and fellow bride and she mentioned making her tablecloths herself. Her mom is a seamstress so she plans to purchase the fabric and have her mom run a seam along the edge.

Of course, I decided I might be able to do the same thing. My sister sews so she and I went to look for fabric possibilities. First we went to Jo-Ann. Of the few fabrics we liked, they all started at $13/yard. No thank you.

Then we went to this fabric place my sister knew about, Fabric Warehouse, where all their fabrics are $3.49/yd. We found a few ivory satins that we liked but after checking the width on it, turns out nothing we bought would be wide enough to cover our 72″ tables without a seam. And I don’t want a seam. Plus, at 3.49/yard and knowing that we’d need about 4 yards per table, with 20 tables, the fabric was going to total around $300.

At that rate, we’d be better off renting. We know they’ll be seamless and the measurments will be right and we won’t have to figure out what to do with them after the fact.

I did a quick check on some places that rent linen in my area and it looks like the going rate is anywhere from $13-$35 for the fabrics I like. This mess adds up. For the cheapest fabric (bleh), this comes close to $300 after taxes and installation.

Right now, I don’t know what to do. Our venue doesn’t supply linens and the chairs are fugly. That means an added expense for linens and chairs/chair covers no matter how you cut it.

Suggestions? Anyone? Bueller?

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Our Reception Venue: 73 feet and Off-Limits Black Chairs

February 3, 2009 by Mrs. 12k | Filed in: Behind the Scenes

I spoke with my event coordinator at our venue and she gave me two bits of news.

1. Our reception area is, for all intents and purposes, a circle. She told me today that its diameter is 73 feet. That’s not a lot of space to fit 200 people, a dance floor and buffet tables.

2. Why yes, they do have all black nice looking chairs (in a cheery voice)! Of course, we’re not allowed to use them (in an even cheerier voice)! Basically the chairs are new and they don’t want to put the wear and tear on them of bringing them up and down the steps. They are to remain on the first floor only. Meanwhile, the ugly stepchildren burgundy chairs are banished to the second floor, where our reception will be held. So we have to get chaircovers anyway. I thought I might be able to get out of it.

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Wedding Chair Covers: A Compromise

January 21, 2009 by Mrs. 12k | Filed in: Reception

Me: I can handle planning the wedding by myself if you want, so feel free to participate as much or as little as you’d like.

Him: I don’t want to have to worry about anything but the venue, the food and what me and my groomsmen are wearing.

::fast forward several months::

Me, with my mind pretty well made up: I think we’re just going to go without chair covers altogether. People will be sitting in them anyway. You won’t even see the chairs in pictures.

Him: I don’t like that idea. We need chair covers.

Me: But they’re not cheap.

Him: We need chair covers.

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I’m happy to have him actually interested in being involved in another part of the wedding, so I’ll go with it.

So, alas. It looks like we’ll have some sort of chair covers. Still working on pinning some down that look decent and don’t cost an arm and a leg.

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Wedding Chair Covers – A Necessary Evil?

January 5, 2009 by Mrs. 12k | Filed in: Reception

Let me just start off by saying that I don’t like chair covers and that chiavari chairs cost way too much too rent.

So the chairs at our venue are not the most attractive. They are upholstered with a dark burgundy cloth and have black iron around the seat and back. But, they’re free.

I looked around at chair covers and decided that the ones I could most tolerate don’t have a sash but the cover itself ties in the back in a knot. Apparently this is called a pillowcase cover.

A friend of mine works at a linen place so I went in to get an estimate. These bad boys rent for $3 each + a $0.50 installation fee + a $75 rental fee! Do the math for 200 people and you’re over $700. For chair covers. Right.

And if i rent chair covers, they probably won’t look right with the tablecloths the venue is providing (which I need to double-check by the way), because the chair covers are satin and the table cloths are cotton. And I didn’t really want white.

I thought about just renting more attractive chairs instead of going with chair covers. Problem is any chairs I rent will likely not have the padded seats, which are essential, especially when you have older people who already have joint issues attending.

So I looked around some more last night and found some covers that seem to be a little cheaper but they’ll probably have to be the kind with sashes, which I don’t really like. I did happen upon one site that had them for $2 each including installation and delivery ( I think) and they were pillowcase style. The website didn’t specify but they looked to be cotton. That might actually work, but that still comes to at least $400. For chair covers. Right.