Rented plates vs disposable

Is there anyway you can ask the caterer to purchase different color disposable plates?

I really prefer the disposable (specifically biodegradable). My biggest concern is that rentals are expensive enough - let alone if anything gets damages. I'd rather not have to worry about it. I bought cute cocktail glasses for our signature drinks, I was considering the full place setting, but didn't need to. We used the 'non-pretty' biodegradable ones from our caterer. It was not a detail that anyone minded. Below is a picture table setting from the sweetheart table:

Luckily my caterer is able to provide different colors of plates (white is what we selected), so see if your caterer has other colors.

If not, it would all depend on whether or not you have it in your budget to rent plates

Disposable are ok, depends on what they are like and your wedding style and theme. How much does it cost to rent them against the cost of disposable?

My caterer also provides the "high quality" disposable plates included in the price, but I think they are silver, and I would prefer gold, so I'm planning to ask if there are others or get my own. She said if we rented plates, it would be an extra few for them to clear the plates, on top of the price from the rental company to rent the plates. So we are probably just renting glasses and silverware, and using nice looking disposable plates.

I bought a bunch of nice disposable plates from Sams for super cheap.

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We were thinking about this too and ultimately decided to rent plates. We figured it was just easier since we were renting other things, too. We do not have to wash any of the plates, though. According to our rental company, we just need to have the caterers scrape them and rinse them quickly and then put them in a box to be picked up. This should fall on the responsibility of the caterer- not you guys. If you have to seriously scrub wash everything, I would go for another option. But if you only need your caterer to scrape the plates and run them under water for a second before going in the box I would go this route. Part of this decision depends on your budget and decor, too. Either way, your guests will be happy and will be paying more attention to what goes on their plate.

Our wedding will be very casual so we are opting for disposable.

Disposable.