diy wedding - Rent or buy?

I see people selling tots of lights after a wedding online from kijiji or wedding swap sites

Buy your lights and resell them afterward. I bought mine online for super cheap and love them!

I’m having an outdoor reception and I bought my lights used from a wedding buy and sell page. There’s some things that are cheaper to rent and some to buy I always just compare prices. There’s quite a few items I’ve rented or purchased used on wedding buy and sell pages. Not a lot I would say that I’ve boughten new yet!

I would suggest first looking at buy and sell groups to see if there are any people are selling. Keep in mind the storage required for them afterwards, until you're able to either sell or get rid of them.

I'm renting a lot of things, as we don't live in the same city, so I can't bring home anything, as we're flying.

It may be cheaper to buy, depending on how many you need, if you can find enough from the stores/wedding groups and whether you can store them. If it's a no for any of these things, it's probably best to look at renting.

I decided to rent evrything mostly to avoid storage and the space to have itema sold after and worked out to the same value as buying. Centerpeices with floral ball and backdrop were the only things rented for the day.

I'm hoping to buy most my decor 2nd hand or on the cheap and then resell it so it ends up cheaper than renting. Lots of people looking for 2nd hand decor so should be easy enough to sell it after the wedding. I'm buying my chair covers from the US for around $2.00 each so even if I re-sell them at $1 each someone's getting a great deal and they're only costing me $1 each in the end.