Tableware & linens

The place settings — china, flatware, glassware, chargers, tablecloths, and napkins.

Also called: tableware, china, plates, dishes, flatware, silverware, cutlery, glassware, stemware, wine glasses, champagne flutes, goblets, chargers, charger plates, linens, tablecloths, table linens, napkins, runners, overlays, place settings, table settings.

When couples book this

Usually booked about 7 months out. It moves with your date.

Your wishlist, before you talk to anyone

Questions you can answer early — they become the yardstick you compare candidates against.

What are you hoping to rent for the table?
What colors and style are you picturing?
How much glassware do you want to rent?

What to ask each candidate

Facts that differ from one vendor to the next — worth writing down while you shop.

Delivery & pickup service
How do rentals come back?

What settles once booked

The working details you and your vendor pin down together.

What are you renting for the table?
What's already covered
DERIVED, and the point of this template: rent the gap, not the whole tabletop.
Place settings needed
Linen sizes and counts
Colors and style direction
How much glassware?
What time do they arrive?
The time you agreed together, not an estimate worked back from the ceremony.
What time do they finish?
Who do you call on the day?
The name and cell number of whoever is on site — not the office line.
Where do they come in, and where do they park?
The load-in door or dock, where the vehicles go, and who opens up.
Do they need a meal?
Counts toward your caterer's vendor-meal number.
What balance is due on the day?
Your own figure, from your contract — what is still owed when they arrive.
What gratuity are you planning?
Your own figure. It rides beside the balance on the day-of money sheet.

How it lands on your day

Tableware & linen delivery
Tableware & linen pickup

How it’s usually priced

Usually priced per item.

Lines that sometimes ride along: Delivery & pickup, Damage waiver.

What your vendor reads from your plan

Book on or off Beetrothed — either way the plan assembles a brief your vendor can work from: the event, the tabletop, full list, logistics, contacts.

Plan your tableware & linens — and everything around it

These questions live as one cell of a connected plan: your budget, guest list, checklist and timeline all read from the same answers. See the whole board work, or join the waitlist and we’ll write when it’s your turn.

We will write when there is something worth telling you.