How many cake plates do you need? Photo courtesy of Artisan Events.
Here’s more on DIY for you.
When you see the total cost of rental dishes from your caterer, you might be tempted to go to Ikea and buy dishes instead of renting them. Depending on your circumstances, that might be a good choice–or it might be a really bad one.
I know someone who bought enough dishes to serve about 50 people at her wedding. They got married in their own home, had a good caterer, and had places to store all those dishes after the wedding. It can work.
On the other hand, if you are having 150 guests at a rented venue, you might run into some unexpected difficulties. For example, keep in mind that all your dishes may need to be washed before they are used. That’s 150+ full place settings. Your catering staff probably won’t do that for you without an additional charge, if they would do it at all. And it would be hours out of your life to wash them, even with a good dishwasher. You would also be responsible for delivering all those dishes to the venue on the day of the wedding, or the day before.
Next, think about what will happen to all those dishes at the end of the night. The kitchen staff will scrape them and pack them up in whatever boxes you provide for them. Then you or your representative would have to pick them up from the venue the day after the wedding and take them somewhere to wash them for a second time. And then you’d have to figure out what to do with 150 place settings. That might not be how you planned to spend the first day (or two) of your honeymoon.
This is not to say you shouldn’t buy dishes instead of renting them, but you should think it through all the way to the end before taking the leap.
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