Fitted sheets to cover hay bales?
Has anyone seen fitted sheets used on haybales for seating at an outdoor farm location wedding?
We're getting married on my fiancé's farm in September. He is just about to start baling hay and doesn't have any for me to try it on yet.
I had been pricing flat sheets, muslin cloth, and burlap to use to cover the bales. Yesterday, I went to our local donation center to see if they had a few flat sheets I could purchase cheap. I hit the sheet motherload. They are redoing their flooring and were moving EVERYTHING to temp POD storage units in the parking lot. They had two boxes full of FITTED sheets donated from a hotel. She gave me all of them. About 50 fitted sheets. I told her I'd be glad to donate them back after the wedding.
(I had calculated that I would need about 38 full size flat sheets for the number of bales I'm using).
Will the fitted work just as easily as the flat? I figure I could tie them with jute or twine on each end of every "pew". (I'm sitting them directly next to one another, rather than having spacing between).
Re: Fitted sheets to cover hay bales?
Out of curiosity, have you actually sat on these hay bales with just a bedsheet and deemed them a comfortable way to spend a fair amount of time? Have you done that while wearing a cute, short sundress instead of a pair of jeans?
Because my memory from school field trips taking hayrides and such is that sitting on hay bales is itchy and pokey and while a bed sheet offers some protection, they are pretty thin and hay will be poking through them. So unless all of your guests are showing up in jeans, I can't imagine this is going to be comfortable (and even then, it might not be). Likewise, while burlap may be thicker, I don't exactly want the feeling of burlap on my skin.
Personally, I would rent chairs or benches even and use the hay bales as décor if that's an aesthetic you really like.
No way in hell I'd want to sit on hay bales for a wedding ceremony while dressed in nice clothing.
Also, since your FI works on a farm, I assume he knows that live animals such as snakes and rabbits and birds can be baled up with the hay. And then they die. And then the bales stink.
Yeah, not going to be sitting on that either.
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Ugh...I had no idea but I should've known this!!
All of the above OP.
Plusalso, I know my mom in particular has a SEVERE hay allergy. She gets hives and her throat starts to close up just from being in the vicinity of hay. I don't even want to think of what happens with skin to skin contact for her. Chair rentals are cheap and WAY more comfortable to sit on for a period of time than unforgiving, itchy, scratchy hay bales.
Have you tried quilts or thick blankets instead of sheets? They'd be thicker and a little more comfortable than a sheet
Fitted sheets are going to be a lot more tricky to work with then flat sheets. However, sounds like you have time to figure out ways to do it before your wedding and can do them in advance.
I would find a way to advise your guests of the hay so that way if anyone has allergies they can plan accordingly & take medication prior to coming or possibly depending on how bad their allergy is, decline your invitation.
This advice is for people who care more about their "vision" than their guests.
If you are planning something that requires people to take medication or decline your invitation so you can have your vision, you are planning ALL wrong.