A third of this shelf is stemless glasses
Four of the eleven items here are six-packs of fourteen-ounce stemless plastic wine glasses. That is the shape of a bridal shower rather than a reception: the food is finger food and the glass is the thing every guest holds for three hours. Six to a pack means buying in units of six, so a twenty-two guest shower needs four packs, not three.
Paper on a formal table
Disposable goods on a wedding table work best where the table is already informal: a shower brunch, a rehearsal dinner in a backyard, a dessert station at the end of the night when the caterer’s china has gone back in its crates. The heavier weights in this catalog take a fork without folding, but a plate here is still a plate for cake and hors d’oeuvres rather than a full plated dinner.
Counting for a shower versus a reception
Bridal showers run fifteen to thirty guests and one plate each. Dessert stations at a reception need roughly one plate for every two guests plus a third again for people who come back — a hundred-guest reception clears sixty to seventy-five dessert plates over the evening, not a hundred. Beverage napkins go faster than anything else on the table; plan two per guest at a bar and three where drinks are passed.
What is missing here on purpose
There are no favors, no signage and no floral supplies on this shelf. This is a tableware catalog, and the eleven pieces listed are the ones that reach the table. Where a piece belongs equally to the wedding shelf and the solid-color shelf — an ivory table cover, for instance — it is filed under color, because that is how people look for it.