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Along with the hors doeuvres and the open bar, a set of linens and flatware are chosen with care, along with the banqueting chairs. This item will prove to be as important as your guest list itself. After all, if your guests are not comfortable, the event may not be so pleasant.Whether you are planning the banquet for a wedding reception, a cocktail party, or a lunch convention, your chairs are essential for the comfort of the attendees. They will need to feel relaxed in order to enjoy the food, mingle and make new friends, while they admire the decorations and centerpiece.Either a meat dish or vegetarian has been carefully planned. You have sampled everything from different salads to desserts to be able to choose just the right ones for the attendees. Now you must choose the proper chair. Should it be an arm chair, or one without arms? Should be arms be flat or should they be rounded? And it would make sense if your guests could rise comfortably, whether to get another drink for someone at the table, or to dance the night away. And when they return, they should look forward to it, perhaps with an upholstered chair in a pleasant print.There are so many type of banquet chairs that no matter how elegant or simple your event is, there has been a chair designed for it. There are side chairs with hand tufted upholstered backs, and there are stack chairs. Depending on the occasion, you may prefer a basic stack chair, a resin or wooden folding chair, or you may go all out with a Queen Anne chair with an upholstered back and seat. You may find that you need one or more bariatric chairs, that is a chair that holds up to a thousand pounds.The choices for the backs of your banquet chairs are many, as well. There are designs in a trapezoid shape, or crown backs, dome and teardrop. There are flex backs and also designs like that of a weave or braid, lattice or crossroads designs, as well.The seats may be padded with as little as one half inch padding, or as much as three inches of it. They may have a vinyl covering or have a patterned fabric. It might be a seat sled, that is a kind of metal sliding rail type connecting leg, or it may have cabriole legs. It may be designed with an older era in mind, like the nineteen hundreds, or the eighteen hundreds, or before that.Other stacking chairs include the hospitality style, commercial ones, convention seating, and ballroom chairs. The seats may be wood or cushioned fabric, or even veneer. They may have arms or not.The choice for your banqueting chairs should take time and effort. And do keep the comfort of your attendees in mind, for they are the ones that will make your event special!
