6x36m commercial diy marqueeSummertime weather in the UK can be a mixed bag of rising temperatures and summer rains, chilled winds come and go but the longer days are a welcome relief. The warmer weather interspersed with the occasional heat-wave, can be a call for entertaining outdoors, while still keeping safe from weather and temperatures. Nothing is more glorious than the British Summer as trees grow to line roads with their glorious flowers. There couldn’t be a better place to be at this time of year and what better time to incorporate a DIY Marquee into your social schedule. As bird song echoes through the skies, late into the evening, the bees swirl through the streets and the smell of barbeques reminds you that life is good, take the opportunity to socialise in style and enjoy a seasonal event. When it comes to planning your outdoor celebrations, while it is entirely impossible to plan the weather for the day, one thing that you do have control over is the marquee you will need and the size which will best suit your party-needs.

The size of your marquee is most certainly an important consideration and it affected by the size and type of event, with other considerations being the number of guests, seating catering or standing, music or no music and the answers to these considerations will influence the DIY marquee size.  This, alongside the design of the marquee, is the foremost consideration you will need to make. The organisation and planning of the event is so important, that DIY Marquee have added many customer-friendly sizing tool, Marquee Buyers Guide, to their website to help buyers who are looking for DIY Marquees for sale to gain access to all the vital information you need before you make your choice.

Determining the size marquee to use is simpler than you think when you use the DIY Marquee Planner which lists every possible aspect which you need to consider. Customise the size of the marquee and click to make additions such as objects or parts of the landscape to show you how best to place your DIY Marquee. Experiment with different layouts of your choice or select to start by clicking on the generic list of Examples which are already pre-designed for your ease. Or if you like it old school, call through to DIY Marquees where professionals in the industry are happy to help.

There is nothing that DIY Marquees won’t do to make the procurement process easier for you so that you can have a premium experience for your summertime event. Premium DIY Marquees are great value for money because of their strength of the material as well as weather-proof features, such as wind stop sealed panels. This marquee is designed to endure any weather most of the year around. Premium DIY Marquees come is a variety of sizes and can accommodate a capacity of up to 100 people with the ability to accommodate any extra features you may need. Premium DIY Marquees are the best marquees available in the market today.

Pop Up Marquee for sale tips

Furniture:

  • Unlike marquees furniture is often too expensive to buy so hiring is usually the best solution
  • For a formal atmosphere use larger round tables (5ft for seating 8/9, 5ft6in for seating 10)
  • Use a mixture of smaller tables to create an informal atmosphere (see this article on seating)
  • You can get away with fitting more people in a marquee for a party than for a wedding, a wedding requires more space, but you can squeeze people up a bit at parties.
  • A marquee can hold more people standing than seated (generally around 1.5 times the number seated) but it’s always worth having some seats in rows against the sides of a marquee even if you are leaving the middle completely clear for standing (or using it as a dance floor area)
  • For formal seating remember an easel for table plans (or two for larger functions)
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Dance Floors:

  • Do you want your party to be mainly about the dancing? In which case put the dance floor in the middle so it is very much the centre of attention. If you want it as an option, then put it at one end.
  • Like furniture dance floors can be prohibitively expensive to purchase hiring or making yourself (18mm plywood screwed to battens and stained) are the most common solutions
  • Alternatively, if your marquee is to cover part of a patio or decking area that can be used as a dance floor

Other:

  • Set the marquee up several days in advance and test the lighting and heating (if applicable) at the time of your function just to make sure both are sufficient.
  • People (mainly blokes) will always congregate around the bar. For this reason, always position it near the evening’s entertainment to avoid having two parties. Always aim to keep everyone in one place to maintain the atmosphere so avoid putting the bar in the house or a separate marquee
  • Always have lighting on a dimmer, this gives you the flexibility to supply lighting to eat by and mood lighting to dance by
  • In October to April you will need to heat the marquee  have the heating on for an hour before people arrive to ensure they walk into a wall of warmth
  • In May to September, you might need a heater just to take the chill off in the seating area later in the evening
  • Think of how your guests will arrive – a simple path of carpet with flower pots makes an attractive and inviting entrance to the marquee
  • Think of how your guests will leave – it’s likely to be dark so some form of lighting will be needed to guide people back to their cars
  • You would normally allow one toilet per 40-50 guests. If you don’t have enough available then consider hiring a luxury toilet unit
  • Give neighbours plenty of notice especially if you plan on partying until the early hours
  • Notify the police, it may sound extreme but it allows them to give informed responses (such as finishing time) to any complaint rather than come knocking on your door

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