How to Plan the Number of Portable Toilets For a Wedding
When planning a wedding, every last detail, as trivial and redundant as it may seem, will count. This applies even to toilet options. When having a wedding at a home or an outdoor setting, unless the event is unusually small, you will need to rent a certain number of portable toilets to accommodate guests.
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Instructions
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Calculating the Need for Toilets
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Collect all of your RSVP's and tally up the total number of attending guests.
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Make note of how high a percentage of women will be attending the wedding as opposed to men.
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Calculate the number of needed toilets based on roughly two toilets for every 100 guests. According to a calculator on UnitedSiteServices.com, this is an approximate calculation for deciding how many toilets you will need. The site calculates based on the amount of hours the reception spans as well. The estimate above is calculated with a four-hour time frame. Take into account if there are toilet options inside the residence where the wedding is taking place and if those will be accessible for guests.
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Add an additional toilet if there is gray area in the number, such as 135 guests, and if there is a greater percentage of women attending as opposed to men. If you plan to have an immense number of guests, into the several hundred count, you will not necessarily need to calculate two toilets for every 100 people. As the guest list escalates, the number of needed toilets decreases guests. With a high number like 500 guests for example, five toilets are recommended by the United Site Services website.
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Tips & Warnings
Keep in mind that weddings often spawn extra drinking of alcoholic beverages, leading to many more bathroom breaks. If in doubt, you may want to order an extra toilet just in case.
Consult providers of portable toilets for their recommended ratios, and compare their estimates and rates.
References
- Photo Credit portable toilets image by Heng kong Chen from Fotolia.com
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Comments
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loohire
Apr 08, 2010
I would say you were spot on with 2 portable toilets for 100 guests.
