Ok so I had this idea in my head of what I wanted the reception decor to look like...the restaurant has these pretty dark wood tables and chairs so I was going to leave off the tablecloths and go with a natural look. I wanted to add mossy tablerunners and then have a birdcage with flowers and a hand-stitched bird on it. I was thinking I would have little bud vases with hydrangeas in it and that would be pretty much it - natural, simple and cute.
But...when we went for our menu tasting, I was talking to the coordinator and she said that they don't actually use the restaurant chairs because they don't have enough - they use an unattractive standard (sea foam green) banquet chair. And for the round tables, they aren't natural wood, they're the folding type so you have to put a tablecloth on them. Here are my issues with this:
- I'm not sure the mossy (actual dried moss) will look very good on white tablecloths. Should I try to completely change the idea? Or rent purple tablecloths or overlays? I think it would be around $150 for standard purple tablecloths.
- I now have to either rent white chair covers with sashes (which I don't really like the look of) for $3ea or I can rent the chiavari chairs for ~$6ea. Either way, it's a huge increase to my reception decor costs
So what do you guys think? Any suggestions to make it look good together? Do I need to find a way to budget for the chiavari chairs and purple tablecloths? Or should I try to come up with a new scheme all together? Help!
