Giving Life A Little Spark

If you are planning a wedding that won't be held at a reception center banquet room, such as an outdoor wedding, you will likely need to work with a party rental company for your gala. If you haven't planned a major event before, it can be overwhelming. Trying to effectively plan for every contingency is stressful. Work with your party rental store to make sure you don't overlook anything, and your wedding will go smoothly.Here are three areas to pay special attention to when determining what you need.

Inclement Weather You simply must have a backup plan for uncooperative weather. If your celebration is marred by rain or worse, the whole experience will always feel like a calamity when you look back instead of evoking fond memories. Whether your wedding will be in your own backyard or at a park pavilion, you should have a large tent. This will at least protect your guests and the wedding party from getting rained out. Even if the weather is nothing but blue skies and sunshine, a tent will give people the opportunity to get out of the sun. If you live in an area that gets quite hot and you have a summer wedding, you will also want to rent an air conditioner for the tent. It will provide a cool respite for guests, especially children and the elderly, who are more prone to becoming overheated. Conversely, if you are having an evening or autumn wedding, you will want to pay extra for heaters.Tent rental companies also rent flooring as well as dance flooring, interior walls, tent liners, which drape the interior ceiling of the tent, and tent lighting.

Table Linens

No doubt you will be renting tables to seat all your guests. Even if you don't plan on having a full sit-down meal or plan on using picnic tables provided by a park, you still need table linens for the table you do have. Portable tables are not pretty, and their legs are not decorative. You can skip the cloth napkins if your budget doesn't allow, but full-length tablecloths are imperative for rental tables, as are tablecloths for picnic tables. You don't want your beautiful centerpieces and table settings ruined by graffiti-carved tabletops.

Glassware And Dinnerware

Don't make the mistake of thinking 100 guests means you'll need 100 plates, 100 forks, and 100 glasses. Guests are going to have more than one drink; they can't be expected to return the glass every time they want a new or different drink. For 100 guests, you should rent at least 300 bar glasses, and don't forget, there is a different between beer glasses and highball glasses. The same applies to food. People won't be having their cake on their dinner plate or saving their fork. Plates break, silverware gets lost, and vendors eventually need to eat.