Reader Question: Amphitheater Seating Covers

Posted by Khris in Wedding Planning

We have an interesting dilemma in the forums and I’m hoping you creative divas might have some suggestions. User virtualvoice writes in with this predicament:

Our wedding ceremony is going to be outdoors in an amphitheater- the seats are all stone and somewhat dirty. We need to have blankets or fabric or something so that the guests don’t get their clothes dirty when they sit at the cermony.

I have thought of asking guests to bring towels from their hotels to sit on, but they might forget and it may be a bit strange of a thing to ask people to bring. (Would that be tacky? I could see it possibly working…) We could ask them to bring blankets, but the majority of them are traveling and won’t want to lug blankets across the country.

I have been trying to think of other cheap ways to fulfill our need for fabric or blankets. With $150 guests, that’s a lot of fabric needed!

Thoughts so far:
- Aisle runners ($30 for 100 ft some places online)
- paint drop cloths? I think the fabric ones are expensive
- $1/yd fabric at Walmart. I think we can find a better deal by thinking creatively
- cheap cloth tablecloths or sheets

Color- it seems like it would be nice if we could get white/off white, blue, gray, peach-ish, or black (or a mix of the above) colored blankets/towels/etc so they match the wedding colors at least somewhat, and aren’t an array of gaudy prints and things (otherwise I could collect random garage sale blankets, etc.). I could bleach them… Any thoughts on that? Would it really matter if the colors clash?

Any thoughts/suggestions would be appreciated!