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I would look at online linen rentals, sometimes you can get better deals that way. Miss Perfume talks about turning to online vendors & I did as well. I used BBJ Linen.
Good luck with whatever you decide & hopefull you can work something out that isn't too far out of your budget...don't cha just hate those unexpected last minute expenses?
Thanks for the help, Lillindy. The only thing I'm worried about with online vendors is reliability, plus set-up. Do you do your own set-up? What's reasonable in terms of shipping and handling?
The charges I've gotten for S&H seemed rediculous to me ($160), but it includes to and from ($70 each way + $20 handling), but it's still cheaper than going with my main rental company for floor length anyways. I got that price from Elegant Presentations - ($9.99/floor length table cloth) - www.EgPres.com
Shipping does seem expensive for some places, but at the end of the day it's still usually cheaper than a local company. My place was quite reliable & I would do a little research on others to make sure they have good reviews. As for the setup, my venue setup all the tables for us, so the day before the wedding we brought them the linens we ordered and they put them on the tables like they would have done with their own linens. My venue DOC was actully the one in charge of it all.
I purchased my own 120" linens online, and my family is helping with the setup earlier in the day. The total for 20 polyester, floor length linens was $315, including shipping, and I'm hoping I can recover some of the cost later by selling them to someone else.
@Almostananderson: Have you looked into how much it will cost to dry-clean the linens before you sell them to someone else? A quote I got from one place was $15/tablecloth which made understand why the rental companies could charge so much! Let me know if you a better number because I was considering doing the same thing-
Well, I'm kind of cheating because my MOH's brother works for a linen company and is cleaning them for free. :)
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Depending on the linens, you may not need to dry clean. We bought polyester tablecloths from Linentablecloth.com. After the wedding, we laundered them and resold them (and they were among the easiest items to resell).
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Hey everyone...I'm usually commenting on the boards, but have had a "mini-crisis" with the linens at my reception site. When I first signed a contract with them, I was pretty sure that they had mentioned floor-length linens, but looking back on some pictures I had taken the other day, I noticed that they were "lap length." I emailed the coordinator for the site, and sure enough, that's exactly what they were!
My dilemma is that now, not only would I have to rent overlays for the tables, but I have to rent the floor length linens as well! My FI and I are already over our wedding budget, and we are paying for the wedding ourselves, so we're really stuck on this issue!
Any suggestions from the hive? Should I attempt to make our own linens(his mother sews pretty well), or can you think of a cheaper alternative for renting?