Any dishware/cutlery hacks?

Have you already decided on food? Cutting steak, porkchops, or even chicken can be a little tough to cut through - possible, but difficult. If you're serving pizza, cooked veggies, salad, pasta, or anything soft (even roast beef), you should be fine! Charger plates are a tough plastic (the ones I've seen, I'm sure there are others out there). You can find nice plastic champagne flutes on Amazon or party city, too. There are ways to make it classy without going over budget. Sometimes buying in bulk is actually cheaper than plastic so check out restock.ca, liquidationdeals.ca, bargains group.com and bulkmart.ca, to compare. You could always speak with your vendor and see if they'll buy anything from you for their future events (glass, not plastic), or sell it online.

It depends on what you're serving to be honest. Plastic cutlery just doesn't cut it (pun intended) for a number of foods. Ever try using those really bad sporks at Popeyes? I might as well use my hands considering how flimsy they are.

Plastic is also no good for super hot foods whereas metal flatware can be used for anything. It costs less than $1 per set of fork+steak knife. Even if you're hosting 400 people, that's still a small cost compared to what else you spend on wedding things.

View quoted message Totally agree! It would cost us $300 to upgrade to real plates/cutlery! That's madness to me

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Awesome - that's a relief. I'm thinking along the same lines as you are. I'd rather spend the money elsewhere. I mean, if someone complains about the cutlery... hahah that's their problem.

Our caterer includes plastic plates/cutlery in their package so we are going with that. I think the dinnerware and cutlery doesn't matter. The guests will only have it in front of them when they are eating then it gets removed. I personally feel the extra money to upgrade to real stuff could be better spent elsewhere. We are also planning on using clear plastic cups for drinks. Don't want to risk any glass being broken