Vintage Wedding Rentals: The Discovery

I've mentioned before that decorating the venue was one of my biggest wedding priorities. Because our restored firehouse venue is such a blank slate, we was free to go with whatever "style" we wanted to, and decorate it however we pleased. I loved that I wasn't bound by the colors of the walls, the carpet, or the chairs. There is nothing more frustrating than having to coordinate with bright red church pews or lime green carpet. Can all past-present-and-future brides give me an Amen?

Once we settled on the "vintage chic" theme, I started to have a vision of what our wedding would look like (decoration-wise) but I really wasn't sure how to make it happen. We decided pretty early on in the planning process that decorations (including furniture, table settings, etc.) would take up a pretty large amount of our wedding budget, so we started saving and looking for ways to make a big impact without shelling out a big amount of money.

Enter wedding rentals. Vintage weddings rentals, to be exact.

I'm not exactly sure how I was engaged for so long without ever hearing of vintage rental companies. They are everything that is perfect and wonderful and right in the wedding planning world, and they are literally my godsend when it came to decorating and outfitting our venue. I first stumbled upon a website for a local vintage rental company this past fall, when I was trying to find inspiration for our guestbook table via Pinterest (le duh). A picture of a gorgeous antique table lead to me a site for a vintage rental company actually based out of my hometown...

Screen grab of Treasured Rentals website.

Once I began perusing the site, my decoration wheels began turning, and a little lightbulb went off in my head: instead of spending hours and hours in thrift stores and spending money on vintage accessories and furniture (with no where to put it all), I could just RENT my vintage decorations. Use all the pretty decorations and return 'em at the end of the day. It would be the perfect way to make my vision come to life without sacrificing other areas of the wedding budget. And anything that lets me save money while looking like I spent lots of money is a win in my book.

Screen grab of Treasured Rentals website.

Operation: Decorate on a "budget wedding"-budget without looking like a budget wedding was underway!