Reference · 37 terms

Wedding & Event Furniture Glossary

Every term a planner, venue or couple actually needs, in plain English — with what each piece is for and what it costs to rent in 2026.

Tables · Seating · Bars · Ceremony · Styling · Logistics and contracts

How to use this

Rental language is inconsistent across the industry: the same table is a farm table, a harvest table or a trestle table depending on who is writing the proposal, and the words that cost you money are usually the logistics ones rather than the furniture ones. Everything below is written the way we use it, with our own 2026 rates so the terms come with numbers attached.

Rates are per piece for a standard booking, which covers a two-day rental period at no extra cost. Delivery, set-up and collection are quoted separately. Full figures are on the 2026 price guide.

Tables

Farm table — also harvest table, trestle table

A long, solid-wood dining table with visible grain and a substantial base, built to be seen rather than covered. It is the defining piece of most outdoor and vineyard weddings, because the wood does the decorating and you need far less on top of it. Ours are hand-built in California from locally sourced wood and seat eight to ten each.

Typical rate: $160–680 each · see the collection

Round table — also a “round”, 60-inch or 72-inch

A circular dining table, almost always covered with a floor-length linen. Rounds seat more guests in less floor area than long tables and make conversation easier across a table, but they need linen, centrepieces and a tablescape to look finished.

Typical rate: $160–680 each · see the collection

Sweetheart table

A small table for the couple alone, usually placed facing the room. It is the most photographed piece of furniture at the wedding, which is why it is worth using a real wood table rather than a covered banquet table.

Typical rate: $160–680 · see the collection

Head table — also King’s table

A single long table seating the couple with the wedding party, usually at the head of the room. Farm tables placed end to end are the usual solution, and the run needs to be measured against the room before the floor plan is locked.

Typical rate: $160–680 per table · see the collection

Cocktail table — also high-boy, poseur table

A standing-height table for the cocktail hour, sized for two to four guests to put a glass down. A useful rule is one per fifteen to twenty guests, fewer if the space already has ledges and walls to stand at.

Typical rate: $145 each · see the collection

Coffee table

The low table at the centre of a lounge. It is what stops a group of chairs from reading as a waiting room: without it, guests have nowhere to set a drink and the vignette does not hold together.

Typical rate: from $90 each · see the collection

Side table — also accent table

A small table beside a chair or sofa. Used in pairs at the ends of a lounge, they do most of the practical work — drinks, phones, bouquets — without adding visual weight.

Typical rate: from $80 each · see the collection

Picnic table — also low boho table

A low table with guests seated on cushions or rugs rather than chairs. It reads as intimate and unhurried, works best for smaller counts, and needs level ground.

Typical rate: from $169.99 · see the collection

Specialty table

Anything outside the standard dining shapes: bar-height communal tables, curved and serpentine runs, cake and escort-card tables, and one-off builds for a specific room.

Typical rate: varies · see the collection

Seating

Cross-back chair — also X-back or vineyard chair

A wooden chair with a crossed X in the backrest. It is the default chair of the outdoor luxury wedding because it photographs well from every angle and does not fight the table. The single most visible upgrade in most orders.

Typical rate: from $12 each · see the collection

Chiavari chair

A slender, lightweight ballroom chair with a fluted frame, usually gold, silver or fruitwood, with a seat cushion. The traditional choice for ballrooms and hotel receptions.

Typical rate: $5–60 each · see the collection

Bench

Backless seating for one side of a long table. A bench seats three to four for roughly the price of two chairs, opens up sightlines across the room and reads more relaxed than a full run of chairs.

Typical rate: from $69 each · see the collection

Lounge chair — also occasional or accent chair

An upholstered or woven armchair for the soft-seating areas. Used in pairs facing a sofa across a coffee table, they make the vignette work as a conversation group rather than a row.

Typical rate: from $39 each · see the collection

Sofa — also settee, loveseat, curved sofa

The anchor of a lounge. One good sofa does more for a space than four separate chairs, and curved sofas are the current signature piece for cocktail hours and brand activations.

Typical rate: $390–950 each · see the collection

Low seating — also floor lounge

Cushions, poufs and low benches arranged around a low table. Used for boho and desert weddings, and increasingly for chill-out corners at brand events.

Typical rate: from $18.99 · see the collection

Bar stool

Counter-height seating at a bar or a communal high table. A short row of stools at the bar changes how guests use it — they stay rather than collect a drink and leave.

Typical rate: from $22 each · see the collection

Bars

Portable bar — also front bar

The bar guests stand at. It is the piece with the highest dwell time at any event, which is why a solid-wood bar is worth more than the same money spent almost anywhere else on the floor.

Typical rate: $399–1,890 · see the collection

Back bar

The shelving unit behind the bar that holds bottles and glassware. Without one, the bottles sit on the floor behind the bartender and the whole area reads unfinished in photographs.

Typical rate: $149.99–225 · see the collection

Bar package

The working combination for a wedding: one front bar and one back bar per roughly one hundred guests, plus stools if you want people to stay. Two bars for two hundred guests keeps the queue short at the start of the reception.

Typical rate: from about $780 per bar set · see the collection

Ceremony

Ceremony arch — also arbor

The structure the couple stands under. It frames every ceremony photograph, so its proportions matter more than its decoration — too small and it disappears, too wide and the couple looks lost inside it.

Typical rate: from $189.99 · see the collection

Chuppah

A four-post canopy under which a Jewish wedding ceremony takes place, symbolising the couple’s home. It can be freestanding or hand-held, and is usually dressed with fabric and florals by the design team.

Typical rate: from $189.99 · see the collection

Aisle seating

Chairs set in rows for the ceremony, often the same chairs that are then flipped into the reception. If the same chairs are doing both jobs, the flip has to be crewed and timed — it does not happen by itself.

Typical rate: $5–60 each · see the collection

Styling

Tablescape

Everything on the table surface: linen, plates, glassware, flatware, candles, florals and place cards. On a solid-wood farm table the tablescape can be sparse, because the wood is already doing the work.

Typical rate: — · see the collection

Linen — also table runner, overlay

Fabric on the table. A floor-length linen is essential on a banquet or round table and optional on a farm table, where a runner down the centre usually reads better than full coverage.

Typical rate: $3–159.99 per piece · see the collection

Charger plate — also service plate

The decorative plate underneath the dinner plate, removed before the main course. It is a styling layer rather than tableware, and it sets the tone of the place setting.

Typical rate: — · see the collection

Lounge vignette

A grouped arrangement of soft seating: typically a sofa, two lounge chairs, a coffee table and two side tables, sized for six to eight guests. One well-built vignette beats three thin ones.

Typical rate: from about $1,229 per vignette · see the collection

Rug

Defines the edge of a lounge and stops it drifting into the rest of the floor. Outdoors it also solves uneven ground and gives the vignette a visual base.

Typical rate: from $45 · see the collection

Logistics and contracts

COI — certificate of insurance

A document naming the venue as an additional insured on the vendor’s liability policy. Most resorts, estates and studios will not allow a load-in without one. We issue it as standard in the venue’s required format — send us the requirements with the booking.

Typical rate: included · see the collection

Load-in

Delivery and installation before the event. The load-in window is set by the venue, not by the vendor, and it is the single biggest driver of delivery cost: a ground-floor lawn with truck access next to it is cheap, a freight lift booked by the hour is not.

Typical rate: — · see the collection

Strike — also load-out, breakdown

Collection after the event. A late strike, forced by a venue curfew, means a crew working at midnight rather than a morning collection, and it is priced accordingly.

Typical rate: — · see the collection

Flip — also room turnover

Converting a space from one use to another during the event, usually ceremony to reception. A flip is a crewed operation on a timer — it needs to be planned and priced, not assumed.

Typical rate: — · see the collection

Rental period

How long you keep the pieces. A standard booking with us covers a two-day rental period at no extra cost, so you are not paying for a rush return the morning after the event.

Typical rate: included · see the collection

Minimum order

The smallest order a vendor will deliver. We have no minimum in Southern California. Northern California and the Central Coast carry a $5,000 minimum order, because those are destination deliveries with a crew on the road for the day.

Typical rate: $0 or $5,000 · see the collection

Preferred vendor list

A venue’s approved list of suppliers. Some properties require you to use it, others simply prefer it. Where a venue restricts vendors, ask early — it is easier to solve at the enquiry stage than a month out.

Typical rate: — · see the collection

Site visit — also walkthrough

A visit to the venue before the event to measure the space, check access and agree the load-in path. Worth doing for any large install, and it is the reason a quote does not change after the fact.

Typical rate: — · see the collection

Rain plan — also weather call

The alternative layout if the weather turns, and the deadline by which the decision has to be made. Agree it when you book rather than on the morning — furniture that has to move indoors needs crew standing by.

Typical rate: — · see the collection

Delivery window

The agreed time range for arrival. A narrow window costs more than a wide one because it commits the crew and the vehicle to your event alone.

Typical rate: — · see the collection

Ask us anything on this list

Send the date, the venue and a rough guest count and we will price your actual list, usually within the hour during business hours.

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Current rates for tables, seating, lounge, bars and arches, plus a link to the full collections lookbook.

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