A A Promotions

Kansas City seems to be wedding mecca. I'm not sure why, other than we have more unusual and cool venues than you can shake something borrowed or blue at. It's also an extremely affordable city and is right in the middle of the country. While there are some truly fabulous and reasonable venues out there (River Market Event Place, Foundation, Berg Event Space, and the former Arts Incubator), the rental companies seem to charge a small fortune and can get away with it *and* give you 'tude when you question something ridiculous like a bar costing 75 dollars when the "bar" is merely one small table put on top of another with an ugly linen skirt around it. What adds insult to injury is that you're spending a lot of money on the least fun or remarkable aspects of your occasion. Necessary and no fun.I've received quotes from several rental companies in town and AA Promotions is the clear winner as far as quality and price. I mean, by a landslide. The tables are so beautiful that you barely need the linens, but of course you do need the linens for fancy occasions and guess what? They are not close to 20 bucks a pop here like they are at other unnamed rental companies. 20 bucks to rent a linen. I just don't get it. AA charges less than 10 dollars.Sam, the owner, is gracious, prompt, dependable and... this is the best part: he'll arrange the tables for you (that's right... he is the delivery person, so you know you're getting top notch care and attention). *And* when picking post event, he doesn't make you break down all the tables (the last thing you feel like doing after an event). I should mention that delivery fees are also incredibly fair. Again, this is not common in Kansas City. I once used a company that had left the thousand dollars worth of tables, coat racks, bars and linens that I had rented at a crazy high price in a graceless heap in the corner of the venue. I spent an hour figuring out what was what and which table clothes went with which tables. They also charged me for not breaking down and leaving everything for them in a (similarly untidy) heap. I won't mention names, but these are all things you should question when choosing a rental company.I strongly recommend AA. I never thought I'd feel so strongly about this type of business before, but after planning several large scale events, now I know!

I rented with AA promotions off of the other, singular, 5-star Yelp review at the time. This was possibly one of the best decisions I made while planning my wedding.You will not find another rental company who is better to work with. Many of the awesome business, price, and rental aspects were covered in Joi B's review, and were accurate for me as well so I won't be repetitive. But yeah, wonderful is a good word for it.What really guarantees AA Promotions and its owner, Sam, all of my future table-and-chair-rental business was a situation after my wedding. As several co-workers and I were setting up an event, we realized at 7:00pm on a Friday night (the event starting at 7am the next morning) we didn't have enough chairs. When I called AA on the slim chance they would be able to help, Sam picked up the phone by the third ring. Unfortunately he was already booked for delivery, but he gave us several leads for other rental places and even offered to let us come pick up chairs if we were able, since he had the inventory but not the scheduling capacity. I could tell he was genuinely concerned about my situation, and that alone made me feel better. It all worked out, and we weren't able to use AA Promotions, but it was nice to have an ally who knew the business.A tip to learn from me: we wound up over-ordering by about 5 tables and 60 chairs. It didn't occur to me to call Sam before the event, but he let me know for next time that if the numbers change to simply call him and he'd adjust the order so we didn't pay for things we didn't need. That may be industry standard - I don't rent tables and chairs that often - but it was a nice gesture and he was super sad that he had to charge me. He was very sweet.TL;DR - Small shop means you get exceptional, personal service at roughly 2/3rds the cost of other rental companies.

We have called for 2 different wine tasting events now and each time Sam has been very helpful, affordable and easy to work with! These are not large events which means they are probably not huge money makers for him, but I never feel like our business does not matter to him. This is a wonderful local business!!

I completely agree with the above review. Our wedding was in May 2009 and this guy blew other rental companies out of the water. Prices and quality are the biggest things you look for in rentals and this guy exceeds at both.

We had our 20-year renewal ceremony at The Gaslight Grill this weekend. I needed a certain look for the room and Sam at AA Promotions provided everything that we need. He was flexible with delivering and picking up the chairs and extremely affordable. I recommend this company to anyone who needs this service.

Talked to Sam about getting some tables and chairs for an upcoming event. Was SUPER nice and easy to talk to. Awesome prices, they don't even compare to others I found. No hidden charges or overnight fees which all the others have. I will definitely keep his name for other upcoming parties. Thanks Sam!