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Wedding Table Linens: Buying or Renting from your Michigan Wedding Venue?
- Jennifer Wilson
- Jun 12, 2024
- 3 min read
Updated: Jul 6
Wedding table linens play a major role in the overall appearance at your Michigan Wedding Venue, yet they are often the most overlooked element of wedding decor.
A big choice every couple faces when planning their big day is deciding if they're buying or renting wedding items. You can buy your own, steam and iron them from home, transport them to and from the venue, launder them and store or sell them yourself. The second option is renting them from your Michigan wedding venue. This decision depends on various factors such as budget, convenience, and long term plans for your linens.
Buying Linens
Buying your own linens does come with some advantages:
Buying allows for complete customization. You can choose your colors, fabrics, lengths and patterns. And you'll never be limited by what your venue has to choose from.
Purchased linens can be reused for your family gatherings or repurposed in your home.
It may be the more cost effective option if you make a bulk purchase and don't mind ironing and steaming them yourself. At Celestial Farms we make a lot of our linen purchases at Tableclothsfactory.com and they have an endless amount of colors and fabrics to choose from as well as easy to follow charts that help you determine the sizes you'll need.
Of course there are some disadvantages to DIY-ing your linens as well:
Storage and Maintenance.
To store a large amount of wedding linens you need ample space before and after the wedding.
2. Cleaning and Upkeep of your purchased linens which is both time consuming and costly. Depending on wether you plan to wash them yourself or have them professionally cleaned, don't forget to add that to your linen budget. You can NEVER leave dirty or damp linens laying around too long or they'll develop mold and mildew stains. So it's important to get them washed the day after your wedding if you plan on keeping or reselling them.
4. Limited Use.
If you don't intend to reuse your wedding linens and the idea of washing, ironing, folding, and storing them to resell at a reduced price does not appeal to you, perhaps renting is the more suitable choice for you.
Renting Linens for Your Wedding
Renting linens offers several advantages that can simplify your big day, especially when you choose to rent directly through your wedding venue at Celestial Farms:
Convenience.
Renting your linens is a stress-free option that most of our couple choose. When you rent through Celestial Farms, we handle the setup so everything is beautifully arranged and ready when you arrive on the morning of your big day. At the end of the night, we take care of the cleanup—no extra work for you or your family. No laundry, no laundromats, no lugging around totes of linens in your vehicle.
2. Logistics.
Weddings already require a lot of transportation of items and decor to and from your Michigan wedding venue. Storing linens requires a significant amount of space. By renting you'll have one less thing to worry about and less transporting things to and from the wedding venue.
3. Wrinkle and Crease Free Presentation.
When renting from Celestial Farms, our linens are ironed and steamed for a picture perfect wedding table!
Choosing to buy or rent your wedding linens is a personal choice depending on your budget, style, convenience and long term use. We take pride in the linen services we offer at Celestial Farms and most of our clients do choose to rent. We have high quality, heavy duty, wrinkle free commercial floor length linens. We also have fitted spandex options for the round tables. Most couples at Celestial Farms rent linens from us and bring an overlay, runner, or colored napkins to add a personal touch. When our couples rent linens from us we'll place their overlay, runners, napkins on the tables at no additional charge. Whatever decision you choose your wedding day at Celestial Farms will be nothing short of pure perfection!
Thank you so much for stopping by our blog, we hope you found this information helpful. We want to use our blog to increase awareness and support for locally owned wedding venues. Locally owned wedding venues tend to provide a higher level of expertise, service and dedication. They also have far less turnover than corporate owned or investor owned venues. As you plan your wedding we hope you will consider a locally owned wedding venue like ours. You can find locally owned wedding venues on this wedding venue map. Below is a shout out to fellow locally owned wedding venues around the country! Here are some locally owned wedding venues that inspire us:
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