A suggestion. Spritz the tablecloths with water and put them in the dryer with a couple of tennis balls. Then lay them on the tables and use a cool iron right on the table. I saw something like that done on hgtv.
Do a test, see if it works. is this for the rehearsal dinner?
Thanks for the suggestions!
I’ll try the spritzing and tennis ball and dryer trick - use the 15 minute refresh button on my dryer. That’s a great suggestion!
My sister used a steamer on a stand for the tablecloths and it worked fine. Don’t do it on a rug – it will get soaked.
Put your board up in front of the TV. Fill a spray bottle and spray each one about 5 minutes before
you need to iron.
Find a good movie.
Pour a really nice drink.
I do this 2 times a year and Iron 15-or more tablecloths and at least 80 napkins.
HATE to iron but it does work for me.
We put ours damp in the dryer, then laid them on table to cool. By the time they had runners and place settings on them, the wrinkles were not noticeable
If my mom is here, I will usually iron the tablecloth. If not, I follow anxiousmom’s method.
Spritzed one and popped it in the dryer with some tennis balls for 15 minutes - definitely better! Perfect, no - plus I’m wondering…how to I KEEP these enormous tablecloths uncreased once they are out of the dryer! “No fun” wedding task!!!
Can you layer them, one on top of the other and lay it over your largest table or a spare bed or couch until they are needed? Roll them neatly to store?
When you get table cloths from the rental place, they come on hangers (sometimes padded), folded (perhaps thirds or fourths?) lengthwise and then draped over the hangers and covered with drycleaner plastic. Using this approach, there may still be minimal creasing, but if the creases are paralell to the edge of the tablecloth and are neat and straight, they really don’t look bad on the table.
If you are obsessive, you could line the tablecloth with lightly rumpled tissue paper before gently folding in thirds or fourths (laying the tablecloth on the floor to fold), and then hanging on a padded hanger as described above.
Or, simply lay out each cloth on yr dining room table, one on top of another, cover the whole pile with a sheet, and tell everyone to stay out of the dining room.
Yes, draping over a hanger is how it is often done.
Another option is rolling to prevent creases. You can find info online. Rolling is often recommend to reduce wrinkles in clothes when packing a suitcase so I assume it would work for tablecloths as well.
Obsessive I’m not! Just want the dang things to look somewhat decent!
The rolling is a good idea. I’ll just need an assistant to help me handle them. The rounds are enormous and difficult to handle. Then those can easily be transported to the venue on the day of set up.
Thanks guys - you’re the best!!
I think you are going to get tons on wrinkles from rolling, unless you roll them on a cardboard tube, preferably with tissue paper. But you will need huge cardboard tubes, longer than the width of the tablecloths. Without the tube the weight of the outer layers will crush the inner layers, causing wrinkles.
(Rolling clothes works in packing when the clothes are thicker and there are not a lot of layers of rolls.)
So, we’re 4 days away from the wedding and younger D called last night weeping about breaking up with her boyfriend. He wasn’t coming to the wedding, but she is in the wedding party and I can picture her being all mopey. Should be interesting.
That’s a bummer all around!!! A downer the week of the wedding and makes a little bit of a tough day for your younger D in the midst of all that wedding romance! Hoping she can get on board and just get caught up in the happy moment/day for the bridal couple!
Wow, 4 days! How are you doing? Is it busy or tapping your foot waiting?
Mostly ready. The wedding is 4 hours away from us so I am not too much involved. Just little last minute things - We are getting conflicting information about whether the church automatically reserves parking spaces in front for the wedding or if we need to do it through city hall. It’s an old church in an old town so there is no parking specifically designated for the church. They bought their alcohol but the retailer didn’t have a certain kind of beer that is common here so I had to buy 3 cases to bring along. Need to convince my S who is flying out of Laguardia that he needs to get to the airport early on a Friday afternoon to get through security. She has hair & makeup people coming to the hotel for the bridal party, so I ordered a tray of fruit and sandwiches they can snack on while they wait their turn.
I will be the MOG at the end of August. The bride just chose olive green for her bridesmaids dresses. These are the dreses:
Any suggestions on a color for my dress? I’ll be looking for something fairly casual.
@toledo Navy? Blush???
Toledo, for real, olive green? I like the idea of pink best, then a turquoise.
Mama bear, such bad timing for your DD. possible upside, suggest she look at the groomsmen. 
Thanks bookworm, but she is intending to settle on the west coast, and I think all the groomsmen (except her brother) are east coasters! I am sending an email to my siblings make sure they don’t ask her about him. I think it will cause her to burst into tears.
We are 17 days away and D found out yesterday that the groom’s sister hasn’t been staying on top of the seamstress who is supposed to be making the clothes for her children to participate as flower girl and ring bearers. Not only are the outfits not made, I don’t think they are even started. The childrens’ mom texted D that the seamstress wasn’t returning her texts, so D called seamstress and couldn’t understand the seamstress very well, but gathered that the woman hadn’t started because her mom has been in the hospital. We planned everything with regard to kids’ clothes earlier this year, so this is stressing D big time. I guess the advice here is that if something is important, don’t leave it up to someone else who may not care as much.
D also spoke to one of the bridesmaids last night was is pregnant and who was originally due in early July. The doctor has moved the date of her C-section up to 3 days before the wedding, so she won’t be participating. Just praying that everything goes well for her though as this sweet young woman lost a pregnancy last summer. We knew this was a possibility, so we need to just figure out a solid plan B for uneven numbers of attendants.