Should we get the Imitation China Dinnerware from our cater or buy it ourselves?

I’m all for paying for setup if it’s in your budget. No way I’d want to set up everything myself, so we’re paying for it!

We purchased ours at Costco and it is beautiful but if we weren't having our wedding at our farm I think I would pay the extra to let someone else set it up and store it all for me my family room looks like a wedding exploded in it lol

I would just get it from the caterer for convenience. Sure you can buy it but then where do you store it before and after? Are you going to wash and do clean up? Are you going to transport it and set it up? Seems like too much of a hassle on your wedding day.

I'd only buy it yourself if you have someone like a day of coordinator who can set it up and, most annoyingly, wrangle it all at the end of the night. Cleanup will be annoying, but make sure you don't have to clean dishes from the caterer - all rental companies we looked into required dishes and silverware to at least be scraped off and put into boxes, and some charged a cleaning fee if things weren't cleaned before returning.

Did you decide to buy the imitation China yourselves and set up Samatha? Or will you rent from the caterer?