Your wedding decor speaks volumes of who you are. It reflects your personality, your lifestyle and your will often set the tone for your event and overall assistance in your experience of the event guests. Bed linen can add color to an otherwise dull event space, add texture and depth to your tables, however the overall formality relais guests, the cost of rental of sheets can often seem a waste when your budget is brilliant at the seams, so it is not unreasonable to consider other options that can save your money. If you have never considered buying your bed linen in the hope of reselling after your event to "save money", you can review and ask yourself is it really a value time and hidden cost you encounter? If the purchase your linen vs rent your bed linen has never crossed your mind, take into consideration the following.
1. Quality - times people often boast that they bought their clothes at the same price as the cost of rent. Although that often, that may be true, the detail that they usually leave out is that it is often a lesser quality. Online retailers often offer very affordable options of flax, but the sheets they offer are far close to the quality of the rental. Satin sheets that they sell are very thin, often see through when they are placed on the tables and the worst nightmare of iron due to the type of tissue used.
Their polyester sheets consist of a different type of polyester, which is often difficult and does not have the ability to absorb the oil spill, which is important in towels. They are often available in the sizes and colors limited and often only take place in washes, 1 or 2 which is not good if your plan is to resell. In addition specialty sheets are very difficult to find, your options are often limited to polyester and satin in basic colours. Not to mention finding corresponding banquet sheets, overlays, and towels may be a challenge.
2. Your time – nothing looks more beautiful that covers a room full of white Chair crispy and carefully pressed sheets but keep in mind, those President blankets and bed linen did not press themselves. When you purchase of online retailers linens and chair covers, they come individually wrapped in packages and are folded over and over again to integrate into the packaging. The result... a new, yet very wrinkled Chair cover and water that you, your wedding day, friends and family will spend hours to steam and hanging. You have a steamer and tons of law hangers?
3. Cleaning - all too often I hear wives to say "I buy my linens and sell them after my marriage". While this sounds like a great idea and it is possible, keep a few things in mind. Nobody wants to purchase dirty laundry so that they all should be cleaned before sale, and used washing table linen is contrary to the washing of bed linen every day. Think of the elements served at a typical wedding. Wine red, coffee, chocolate, pasta and sauce without forget lipstick stains everywhere towels. There are patches of fat, food stains and mystery spots and while the tide and Oxyclean are wonderful they do nothing to raise the spots like these. This requires industrial capacity laundry products. In addition, did you know that most of the spots should be treated within 24 hours to prevent permanent staining? This means that someone will have to wash your sheets in 24-48 hours to avoid all the stains and I am sure that you of better things to then slave on a machine washing... as honeymoon!
4. Program Setup and strike - love marriages and are always ready to help therefore find someone to help setup your bed sheets, towels and same chair covers and frames can be an easy task but all good things must come to an end, and often times this end is at 12 a.m. imagine...You've spent just the evening celebrating, you are dressed in your finest formal dress, part coming to an end and approaching midnight. You're tired and ready to go home... but wait, that is the bed linen? Someone needs to remain to remove all sheets on the tables, shake the excess food, find missing towels and put them in bags and then drag it to the car. There is a scene of reason and companies fresh lin for this service... hard work.
5. Sale - So let's see...You've spent hours steam and pressing your bed linen, spent a few hours to their implementation in place (or more if you chair covers and sashes), stayed late at your location to remove them from your tables, the spikes all the way back, purchased your equipment for cleaning, spent 2-3 hours of washing and folding them only to sell for 1/2 of what you paid for them... If you're lucky. You can sell them for what you paid for them because after all, why anyone pay full price for bedding used when they can purchase their new with free shipping in the same place you bought yours from. So ultimately, you'll probably get only about half of what you paid for them and it is only if:
1. None of them have been damaged and that they are in excellent condition. If there are sheets with patches you will receive much less.
2. You are able to find a buyer in your area, who are ready to buy used sheets in the same colours that you had for your wedding and have need of the same amount of bed linen you had. Ensure that you are sales in smaller lots but more headaches.
3. You know where to advertise your bed linen (Remember eBay and PayPal, two invoice charges that cut your profit and there are fresh expedition).
4. You can list on Craigslist but be paid in advance to negotiate.
If in the end, you have to ask you. It was worth it? Take the time to meet your rental company that can work with you to find the sheets in your budget. A professional linen rental company will have a greater selection and then any retailer online and even better, they will handle Setup, collection and cleaning so that your wedding day, you can do that you look better... wonderful!
Courtney Blacher-Alvarado
Owner/linen specialist-Kennedy Couture Linens
Kennedy Couture Linens specializes in fine lingerie rentals for the area of marriage and event at the service of the Southern California beyond with expedition at the national level.
http://www.kennedycouturelinens.com/
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