How Important are Chair Covers really???

In all reality they really are a waste of money! Many times they cost you more then you think because once you use them and return them they vendor will find rips and missing pieces of fabric and charge you for a whole new cover almost 20 bucks!!!! They are a big waste of money hotel chairs are just hotel chairs people would rather sit on the actual chair rather than worrying about ripping the stupied cover that is always in the way! People will understand that chairs come with the venue and well in 20 years how many pictures do you really plan on taking of the chairs!!!

UGHHH! I hear ya...my mother wants the chair covers (white with black tie: my colors are black/white/red, so they match...but FH hates chair covers he hates the way they look My mother offered to pay for them, he my FH think the $ should go towards something else.

I like them, but it doesn't really make a difference to me (it does make the room nicer though.)

Anyway, on to your problem. I really don't think people will notice the chairs. Why don't you hold off on it and see where you are financially when the wedding gets closer. If you have the $ get the chair covers, if not don't seat it. How much are they charging per chair?

Think back on every wedding you've ever been to and what stands out, what do you remember most? I bet that pretty much no one comes away from a wedding saying "Did you see the chairs?!" It's one of those details that feels really important now when you're tangled up in all the planning but in the grand scheme of things come wedding day it will be lost and it will be lost in your and your guests' memories years from now. People walk into a wedding looking for all kinds of things...the cake, the centerpieces, the food, the bride's dress....it'd be weird for anyone to say "I wonder what the chairs will look like?" or "Oh, You went to a wedding this weekend? So tell me how were the chairs?" Sounds silly when you think of it like that, right? You already know to pick your battles, this one might not be worth fighting

Hm we never even discussed the chair covers. personally like someone else said tht would just be a waste of money. i mean chairs are chairs. i mean u yea i could see if they were like really old woody and dingy, but if they aer like how u described then i wouldnt wory about decorating them. i mean who is honestly (this is just my two cents) really going to remember or care about what the chairs look like? people will be to busy eatting, drinking, taking pix, bsing with you and your fh and family and dancing its like whos going to notice? id say save your money and put it towards something elsee.

Wow, this is the first time that I have disagreed with everyone on a post =D . We have the same problem...well kinda. We are renting an event center for the reception and without the chair covers I feel the room does not seem complete. We are paying for ALL of our wedding and agree that no covers would be cheaper AND the room would look better with them. Its not that we are concerned about what people would think...we just feel like the room overall would look better with the chaircovers.

I agree that no one will probably remember one way or the other...I don't remember any details of the weddings I have been to...but I have not been the bride =D

Anyway, I think this is one of the things that can go either way. I think chair covers are not "important" but neither are tablecloths...they all just add to the ambiance =D

cheers!!

That is the thing... its not that I really care that much of what the guests think of the chairs because I doubt they will remember them at all and its not like I am THAT picky of a person... but I personally just dont want to look back on my wedding day and remember the chairs as something I HATED... its such a small and stupid detail but I really dont think the room will look pulled together without them. My FI thinks they are stupid and says it looks like your sitting on a ghost or cloud and I agree they sometimes look cheesy but I mean I think in our situation they would just make the whole room look classier and pulled together. I hate to be a brat on such a small issue but I have changed so many of the details of my wedding to accommodate what others think is "best" that this one little thing I have left I cant seem to let go of... I dont know what to do... I just dont want the chairs to look cheap and ugly and to not match... blah

I say go for it...you only get married once!

If it's really going to bother you then go ahead and pay the extra money for them. I would however caution you to two things first: Number one, what else could you use that money for, and is that more important to you? Number two, I'm sure the chairs coordinate with the carpet and general decor of the room already, so it isn't as though they are the sore thumb. I think it will be beautiful without the covers and on that day you are NOT going to even notice them. But, it's a choice you need to make.

I mean I hear ya, it would definitely be NICE to have them but when you're talking budget and cuts have to be made you have to pick what's MOST important. As you know, we HATE the chairs at our venue and it's been hard to just accept having ugly chairs. But if it's a choice between chair covers or extending the event an extra hour, as it was in our case, then we had to decide what was more important. I'm not a fan of the covers either, I think they look like pillow cases to me, but anything would be better than the ugly chairs we're stuck with. I love chivalri chairs, but they are ridiculous expensive! I think that after you have the MOST important stuff paid for, if you have the money left over to do this and have your heart set on it then go for it. Just don't cut out something better for something small. I'd be surprised if that's really what you remember years from now! You'll probably laugh about it instead.You do have time to make this decision so see where you end up budget wise

This is a tough one as I went through the same thing. I agree that its a waste to spend all that money on chair covers and honestly no one will remember. But we're still doing the covers b/c it really does tie the look of the room toghether. Without them I just didn't like how the room looked. So this is one thing I budgeted for, but this was more important to me than some of the other things. As much as guests won't remembmer, I say to go for what you like. There are other things that I don't care for and I'm keeping simple, like some of my decorations. I choose to decorate with the chair cover so to say. I say you do what will make you happy.

Let cost be your guide. More often than not I hear of unexpected wedding expenses that pop up at the last minute. You don't want to be caught with that. I understand wanting things to be perfect but you don't want to be broke after the wedding. I think we worry so much about things before hand and then after its over we're like "why did I pay for that?" Hindsight is 20/20....that sucks

I had the same problem. I really didn't think they were required for us and it seemed like money I could be spending on something else. I always said I would never get them. But, once I looked at our venue and saw all the mis-matched chairs I insisted on it. It was one of those things that I could imagine sitting there eating my dinner and thinking "We should have got the chair covers" and I didn't want to be thinking of should have's at that point. Yes, money is ultimatly a big factor in it, but I didn't think the reception would be complete without them. I shopped around ALOT for them and finally found a company from a town 2 hours away that was willing to deliver & pick up and was cheaper then anywhere in town!

No your guest are not going to be upset nor floored by you having them ornot having them.I more so feel as though its a personal preferences and the total over all look your trying to achieve.We personally thought that it gave our reception venue a glamorous look and we wereable to rentthem through our venue for $3 each but I have also seen some venues that without the chair covers the room still had a glamorous look.But again dont break yourself.If you can afford it and the room needs them go for it if you can get around it and still acheive the look your going for put your money elsewhere.

I think that if you know that the chairs won't mach you should get them because it will complete the look of your wedding.

I am cheap as well lol so I think they are a complete waste and no one will care anyway and there isnt much use for 100 chair covers after its all said and done. But if you are just going to be so unhappy about the look then go for it. I know how that is Im completely OCD when it comes to matching and organizing weird things like that will iritate me. SO if you are going to be pushing in the chairs all night so no one sees the ugly then do it so you can enjoy the night!

I think they really don't matter at all. My venue has plain black folding chairs, and I don't care. Who looks at the chairs?! No, the black doesn't "go" with my purple/blue color scheme, but it doesn't really "clash" either. I can think of much better ways to spend my money. Of course, I'm pretty laid back about most of my wedding planning, so I'm sure not everyone will agree.

Will other people really notice them? I would say no.

Do you really really think that in 20 years you will look back on your WEDDING DAY and remember hating the chairs? Think back to your prom, your graduation, or even your first date with your FI. Do you remember what any of the chairs look like on those days? I sure don't. Your FI's aesthetic sense that chair covers look ridiculous is valid, btw and shouldn't be discounted just because it doesn't line up with yours. What if HE were to look back twenty years from now and remember the dumb cloud-chairs that he never wanted and still resents the money that you spent on them that could have gone to something else he'd like better?

If this is so important to you, that you are willing to spend your money, and let your FI know that you are willing to compromise in some other way if he goes along with what you want, and are able to come to some sort of agreement, then by all means. To me, it doesn't seem worth it

The problem is; I don’t know if in 20 years I will look back and remember the chair covers or if they wont matter at all. I just don’t want to walk into the ballroom the night of my wedding where so many people have spent so much time and energy and money and be disappointed. It just doesn’t make sense to me to put so much into something and not like the overall product because of one thing.

BTW my FI’s sense that the chair covers look ridiculous has not been discounted just because it doesn’t line up with how I feel about them whatsoever. We have actually had a couple discussions about this and I would like for him to be just as happy as I am with the overall look of the wedding. However I feel that with everything that has to do with this wedding that someone else doesn’t like or doesn’t want I change MY mind and for once I just want to do what I want to do without it being an issue.

That being said I have NO IDEA what to do about these stupid Chairs!!!!!

I also think when it comes down to it and what really matters in this wedding, the chair covers are going to look so small in comparison to what is really happening; US marrying one another in front of everyone we know and love... BUT I still would like to be happy with what it looks like... we are putting a lot of money into this day (at this point I would almost just rather elope LOL) and I just want it to be as close to perfect as I always imagined...

If you don't have the money then skip it. Otherwise think of it as "dressing a room". Just like you would get dressed for a formal event. You wouldn't skip nice shoes or nice jewelry. Because as insignificant as it may seem, it completes your "look".

Maybe I'm weird, but I do walk into a room set up for an event and I notice how everything flows. I notice what they cheaped-out on and what they spent their money on. But that's just me. I have a tendency to be visual, so I like to see a room flow visually. GL with whatever you choose. Its your day. If it makes you happy, then that's all that matters.