5 Top Tips When Hiring a Marquee

5 Top Tips When Hiring a Marquee

Thinking about hiring a marquee for you event? Here are some must read tips before you hire your marquee:

1. Location, Location, Location – choosing the location of your event is very important. Think outside the box with your marquee hire as you can erect your marquee wherever you wish, you are not restricted to buildings and hire halls and so use this to your advantage and get creative. Contact farmers and ask them about hiring there land, take a drive and see where the best spots are, call local businesses to see if you can use their car parks, and practice your negotiating skills and try and get the best price possible.

2. Marquee Hire Company – choose a good marquee hire company who communicate well and are at hand to help. Your marquee company can not only help with your marquee hire but they will work closely with other companies that you’ll need such as caterers, furniture hire, and entertainment for example. Going through the marquee hire for the other services you need you’ll be able to get better rates. And so be sure your marquee hire company is a company you can work with and make the most of your partnership.

3. Haggle – when ordering your marquee hire ask them to throw in a few things such as heaters, chairs, caterers etc they can only say no and most companies will give a few freebies to seal the deal there and then.

4. Decoration – look online and get some ideas for the decoration and so you can think about decorating the marquee yourself. This is a good place to save money as a marquee can be decorated nicely yourself for little expense. Once you have found your style it is easy to re-create it yourself and for a low cost.

5. Mates Rates - Ask friends and family to help out. If you have a friend who is a flower arranger ask if they can help you out either for free or for a small fee. Ask around if they know of anyone in the catering business who would give you a good rate. You never know if you don’t ask and most people like to do things for free for big events as it advertisers their work and business free of charge.