Our venue is completely open to bringing whatever vendors we chose in, but a lot of the "extras" must be paid for ourselves or not provided. Chair covers are one of them.. They have regular chairs and (it's a barn) we figured the chair covers would help dress things up more, or add a nice touch.
To rent or buy chair covers here, we cannot find them cheaper than 3.00 a chair.. With 200 .. that's a crap ton. However! My mom found a lawyer selling 200 and she bargained with them to 75 cents a piece or something like that.. they're nice chair covers that fit "standard chairs," so we went ahead and bought sashes for all of them. We sent a chair cover to the venue just to make sure it would fit - aaaaand low and behold, it doesnt. We're stuck.
We thought of asking the family member who's altering my dress to alter all of the chair covers, but would that be worth it? They mentioned cutting down the back to give it more room to fit all of the way down, and she will have to hem the cut