Charleston, South Carolina

Rentals

In Charleston: This is the line that catches people who fell in love with a lawn. A blank-slate site turns into an itemized bill, and locally the units are small enough to look harmless and add up fast: chairs run about $5 each and tables about $14 each, flat, whatever the size. Tents start around $185 for a small frame, but a tent that seats a hundred with flooring and sides is a different order of purchase entirely — get the quote rather than scaling that figure up. Two local additions to the usual list: humidity makes flooring worth it on grass you would otherwise have skipped, and a tent here is your hurricane-season contingency, not just your rain plan. Book it when you book the venue.

12 listings · checked August 2026

Balloon Therapy Charleston — North Charleston · balloontherapychs.com · (843) 561-8016
Bespoke Strings, LLC — Charleston · bespokestrings.com · (843) 259-2711
Charleston Balloon — Charleston · charlestonballooncompany.com · (843) 856-9121
Curated Events Charleston — North Charleston · curatedevents.com/charleston · (843) 881-7576
Holy City Events — Charleston · holycity-events.com · (843) 619-7321
If It's Paper — Charleston · ifitspaperonline.com · (843) 763-4423
Old South Carriage Company — Charleston · oldsouthcarriage.com · (843) 723-9712
Palmetto Carriage Works — Charleston · palmettocarriage.com · (843) 396-5702
Paper Party and More! — Mount Pleasant · paperpartyandmore.com · (843) 971-9911
Party Plan-It — Mount Pleasant · partyplanitsc.com · (843) 388-9236
Simply Elegant Party & Event Rentals — Summerville · simplyelegantrental.com · (843) 821-1035
Snyder Events — North Charleston · snyderevents.com · (843) 766-3366

How to think about rentals

Everything the venue doesn't provide, you rent: tables, chairs, linens, place settings, glassware, lounge furniture, a dance floor, lighting, heaters, and — for any outdoor day — the tent that is quite literally your entire weather plan. Rentals are invisible when they're right and impossible to ignore when they're wrong. Blank-slate venues lean on them heavily; all-inclusive venues may need only a few accents. Order through your caterer or a dedicated rental company, and read the fine print on delivery, setup, and teardown fees, which add up faster than couples expect. If a tent is your rain backup, price it early — it belongs in the budget from day one, not as a panicked day-of line item.

Timing — Book by ~6–9 months out · maps to your Rentals budget line

Details change constantly — confirm directly before booking. Something wrong? Update or remove a listing.

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