Oh Happy Day!

I know I usually only talk about Wedding related stuff on Wednesdays but honestly, I CANNOT contain myself!

Not only did we have a fabulous morning of decision making (more on that Wednesday) but seriously, it was such a shpadoinkle day!

Casey called and told me that her and Momz were going to a crazy one day only liquidation sale they had found at a warehouse a few towns over. Most of the fabrics were table cloths and catering stuff, so she figured I'd be interested in wedding related crap at deep discounts...boy was I ever?!

Off we went and entered into this balls hot warehouse with ceiling high shelves FILLED to the brim with table cloths, table runners, table skirts, chair covers, chair ties, napkins, everything you'd ever want and need, in all different colors and fabrics.

Now the venue we decided to go with includes chair covers but chair ties or sashes I've come to research to be $0.60-$1.00 to rent/buy EACH. I flat out told Casey that if we found chair ties in my color scheme that were $0.50 or less I'd buy them for the wedding.

Boy did we ever find what I was looking for. They had chair ties on sale but not enough in any color I was looking for. The most they had in a royal blue linen was 70. But, what they did have were table cloths of satin.

We measured the chair ties that they had pre-made in the warehouse and they were about 96" long and approximately 5" wide. The table cloths I found in a beautiful blue satin that matches the invitation paper perfectly were 90"x132" and the going rate for them was $12/table cloth (I know from my chair tie searches that these satin table cloths can go for up to $35 a piece, so already a good price). With the trimmings we approximated that 22 chair ties could be made from each table cloth. To be safe, we'd need 180 chair ties (I doubt we'll wind up making more than 150, but better safe than sorry.)

I grabbed 10 table cloths (hey, I can make a few table runners for the sweetheart table and the escort/gift tables too!) and asked her if she'd be willing to take $60 for them all. She said no less than $75. I said throw in two industrial sized spools of matching thread and you've got yourself a deal.

DONE!

Umm...hello? Let's figure out how much money I just saved, shall we?

Let's say the two spools of thread were $5, just so we have an even number to work with. $70 for 10 table cloths is $7 each. We can make 22 chair ties out of each table cloth, so basically $0.32 a chair tie, with at least two table cloths left over to trim into 4 table runners at $3.50 a piece.

I like those numbers. I WIN!