Plates

Glassware vs. plastic is something you have to consider and isn't cheap looking for the plastic if the effort saves to throw out the garbage easily. Quality of the food is more important since you want to enjoy the taste and flavours rather than thinking the plate looks better to eat. LOL

Glassware is nice and elegant though the price your paying seems worth it for the amount of guests to make it better looking and eating.

Plasticware given the silver colour and sturdy paper plates makes it as nice and easy to allow your guests to throw out after when done eating. We did attend a family reception where paper plates and plastic cups were served for them to keep their costs low and everyone enjoyed themselves. This doesn't make it look cheap at all if that's what your wondering.

Most weddings people don't take note of the cutlery and plates unless there is something wrong with them (like knives that don't cut) or if they are AMAZING (like the fact that I had copper cutlery at my wedding which had never been seen by any of my guests before).

I would say it's fine to go with the plastic ones as long as they do what they are supposed to do.

As for charger plates - I was in the same spot... not worth the money. What we ended up doing was buying custom napkins and put them where the charger plates would have went

Ive been to a ton of weddings and honestly never looked at the forks and knvies. i cant tell you if any of them were plastic or silver lol. i dont think your guests will notice unless theyre the super flimsey ones from dollarama lolll

I'm going to be brutally honest, so sorry in advance, but I don't think there's any reason good enough to use that much single-use plastic. If you decide on not using rentals, you can definitely find some cute paper/wood plates and wood cutlery so they can be composted and they'd fit a lakeside theme really well.