Not Just a Tablecloth

When my aunt and I visited Lake Lynsday to find out if it was the place I wanted to have the reception, it happened to be decorated.  Browns, creams, tans, and gold tablecloths, overlays, and accents made the humongous room come together.  It was so stunningly beautiful that I considered changing my colors, after all brown is one of my favorite colors.  After seeing their display, I was eager to shop for linens. Really I was!  Again I met up with my aunt Sue and we visited several different linen rental places.  We spent a couple hours at the first place.  There are so many types of fabrics-crinkle, satin, iridescent, sequined, taffeta, polyester, checked, pintucked.  Plus a selection of different prints, overlays, and runners.  I was so overwhelmed, my head was spinning with ideas.  Then of course money always helps limit my million ideas!  Since we were on a budget, I decided to do half of the tables white polyester tablecloths.  I’d use accent pieces to throw in color.  Now was the hard part…finding fabric in our colors.  Sangria, apple green, and mango orange were not easy colors to find.  I was told that those were “coast” colors that hadn’t made their way inland yet.  Hmmm, guess I’m just too trendy!  We spent all afternoon tearing tablecloths and runners off hangers and setting showroom tables to get a better picture.  Between the tablecloth, runner, napkin, and chair sash, not all seemed to be available in the colors I needed.  I was beyond frustrated.  The salesperson at the rental place was very nice, but kept trying to persuade me to just change my colors; especially since at this point I hadn’t had my bridesmaids dresses.  We left with new colors-green and yellow.  It made me think I was throwing a baby shower.  I wasn’t happy.  Period.  I didn’t want to change my colors.  After all, it’s not just a tablecloth we’re dealing with here.  It’s precious fabric that would help set the mood of the reception, not to mention be the same colors used throughout the entire ceremony, reception, and just everything in general related to our wedding.  In a mission to find my colors, sangria especially, we continued to visit two more places.  We were unsuccessful, one place was closed and the other was equipment rentals and a selection of maybe 10 polyester tablecloths.  My aunt Sue and I even thought of making our own tablecloths. We went to a fabric store looking for something in my original colors that might work.  No luck!  They only had sangria sequined ribbon.  We went back to her house and got online.  Maybe I’d try ordering tablecloths online.  Heck, if I found what I wanted for around the same price I was going to rent them, I’d just buy them.  Don’t know what I’d do after the fact, but if it worked for the wedding day, that’s all that mattered.  We were on the internet from early evening to when I left her place around 10.  So far no luck.  When I got home I spent a couple more hours online looking, still no luck.  I went to bed and woke up (sleep deprived) the next morning wondering why I spent the night dreaming of orange crinkle cloth?!?!  I called Abe, who was getting off at 8am and told him to meet me at the linen place.  We were taking care of this not just today, but now.  With Abe’s clear cut decision making and patience, it was within an hour that I had linens (including tablecloths, napkins, runners, and chair sashes) I liked in a similar color scheme to the one I originally wanted.  I felt much relieved.