Hi! We've still got a ways to go before our big day but as I've started putting together the list of smaller details for our budget, I came across a dilemma with our chair situation.
Our venue offers Chiavari Chairs in a "natural" color which we could make work but they don't fit into our color scheme exactly how we envisioned so we looked around at the venue's recommended rental company to price out different colored chair options. When I looked into renting gold Chiavari Chairs, the rental company had a note about the weight limit of these chairs (~250 lbs). Since my step-dad is a bit on the heavier side, I don't want to cause any concerns with using these chairs so we looked at some other options with the rental company that support more weight (up to 500 lbs).
The issue is that to rent Chiavari Chairs, it would be $8.95/chair but the ones with the higher weight limit is $18.50/chair!
I have no issue spending the ~$9/chair to upgrade to the gold Chiavari Chairs to match our colors but I can't imagine it would be acceptable to have 1 different chair designated for my step-dad since it would be blatantly obvious that it's due to his weight.
The option would be to upgrade all the chairs to the heavier weight limit but the price difference for the total would be about $1000 for the Chiavari Chairs vs. over $2200 for the sturdier chairs.
I really cannot imagine spending over $2K on chairs, but don't want to risk anything happening by sticking with less sturdy chairs. I also don't want to single out my step-dad and give him a "special" chair when everyone else would have matching chairs.
Does it look like I'll just have to suck up the major expense for the upgraded chairs and adjust the rest of our budget elsewhere to make up for it? Any thoughts or opinions would be appreciated!
