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Choice Party Linens

Think Linens First

Linens and accessories play a major part in setting the atmosphere at your events. They are such an important detail and can change the overall ambiance of any event or event space. There is no other surface in any event space that is as easily changed with such little effort, time, and expense as linens. The results can be as dramatic or subtle as you want. You can glam it up with sequins or create a more textural feel with tone on tone in different textures.

LOOK FOR A PARTNER, NOT A VENDOR

Michelle Harris, Business Development Manager, Choice Party Linens.

We have designed our business model so that we can respond to ideas and even issues that our customers have in order to learn and grow together.

Look for a partner that can work with your specific needs. The special event industry and be full of creativity and fabulous results, but you don’t get there alone. Look for a partner with no contracts or hidden costs that you find out about after your event. A strong partnership with your vendor lets you be a one-stop shop for your clients which takes stress off them and in turn strengthens your relationship with them.

SUB-RENTING LINENS IS HIGH ON PROFIT

Sub-renting linens puts you in the driver’s seat. You can have the linens you want for an event without needing to store, launder and process the linens on the backend. No worries about repairs or inventory. All the headaches associated with linens are on someone else!

In addition to less time and effort on your part, you can mark up the rental prices you charge to suit your areathat could be a 20-100% markup. You can have an even higher markup on specialty cloths. Hassle-free and added revenue, yes please!

FULL-SERVICE SUPPORT

Find a partner that supports you beyond renting linens and accessories. They should provide you with the tools you need to help service your clients.

Free samples for specific event or showroom samples for your venue or showroom make YOU the Linen Rental expert for your clients. We know every client has different needs, so we've developed "We Rent Linens", a customizable marketing program that lets you pick a la carte the materials that you need to promote your business and provide better services to your clients. The most important piece is our white label website - you can take your existing “linens” button and link it to our white label website and your customer will have access to view the depth and breadth of our inventory. This website does not show our logo or pricing, so everything shown just becomes one more thing you are able to offer your customers.

ORDER EARLY AND COMMUNICATE!

We know, we know – much of what we do in the special event industry is fast-paced and last minute. So when you do have information early, act on it. Order the pieces that you need even if the order may change as you get closer to the event. The extra time you give your linen rental partner provides them the opportunity to plan for your event and have the best possible options available to you. We expect changes and allow for them up to the business day before the order leaves our facility.

Have an open and honest conversation with your linen sub-rental partner. This open conversation lets them understand your needs and the certain constraints that you are under for a certain event. This conversation also needs to extend to issues with an order - either you ordered incorrectly, or something arrived to you with an issue. Telling your partner that there is an issue, before the event lets them, in most cases, provide you with what you need before the event or if that is not possible, provide you with a solution quickly after the event.

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