Don’t put the wrong table covers on your event tables!
There is definitely much to learn when you start planning events, parties or celebrations. When you first start, you try to plan things out but bad things happen, people make changes and you world comes crashing down.
Oh, I am no genius. Do not think that I believe myself to be different or special. When I was a novice I made mistakes too! I tried to read what I could but no matter how much I read I just could not learn what I could learn by doing, so I did. I went out and got the experience.
Now as an expert, I will try to consider every little thing that can go wrong or differently and plan accordingly. Factors such as what religion the people attending will be or what someone might be feeling when they show up are important and should not be overlooked.
As a novice, I would only briefly think about such things and would think more about things that did not matter to the situation, in short my mind was not yet “in” it.
Probably my best example of the effect of experience on performance was when I was just starting out. A friend of mine hired me to plan their wedding and decided to give me a chance. My price range was relatively cheap so it made sense for her.
The plan was to have the wedding in the park to make it a cheap wedding. Afterward the reception would be in the back where we had tables all set up. We put plastic table covers on all of the tables, the kind with the paper face on them.
There was more than one purpose to have the decorative items on the tables. We needed some weight to keep the plastic table covers from blowing away and we need them to look good too.
Well long story short, the wedding went well but as it got later and the sun started to set we went over to the reception area for drinks, food and cake.
Firstly the public nature of the park means that it was of course, open to the public. People LOVE to take their pets for walks there and in particular, their dogs. Unfortunately, these people sometimes do not clean up their pets “treasures” and we had several guests end up with them on their shoes!
The second problem was that as the night grew later, moisture in the air started to seep into the paper face of the tables covers which made them wrinkly and ugly.
The third problem was because we didn’t use any sort of table skirt for the tables, the wind was blowing pieces of the wet paper off of the table covers.
Next time, we decided to only use the paper faced plastic table covers indoors or during the day, for damp conditions we used the normal plastic table covers and they look great and clean up well.
Go to Trevard.com for plastic table covers because they have fast shipping and a vast selection of tablecloths.






