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Outdoor Home Weddings - How to Place and Select the Right Tent

Are you dreaming of an outdoor home wedding? Do you know anything about wedding tents? If not, you will learn where to place your tent, what designs you can choose from, and whether your tent needs heating or air conditioning.

Where to Place Your Tent

If your yard is flat as a board, you are a lucky lady. Yards can be uneven or rocky, and using flooring can prevent embarrassing fiascos. Wedding tent flooring may cause unbalanced tables, snapped high heels, and even water seepage. As for placement, the middle of the lawn makes an excellent choice. Placing your tent in the corner of the yard or too close to the house can create traffic problems.

Choosing a Design

If your house had poles supporting the structure every few feet, there would be very little charm in your living environment. The same applies to wedding tents, and three designs eliminate the problem of those gray metal poles.The century has one or several peaks, depending on the size, and is supported by poles on the outer sides, which are framed in, to disguise their identity. While the century forms the most elegant structure, a simple pole can may work better for you. This wedding tent consists of poles on the outside and a few poles down the middle. In high wind areas, or for a wedding that is expecting torrential rain, the lack of design is made up for an increase in durability.The clear-span frame tent consists of poles on two sides supported the entire structure, which eliminates the center poles.

Heating and Air Conditioning

Heating a wedding tent is quite affordable, although air conditioning becomes quite expensive. While a colder climate wedding may be tolerable due to so many guests being packed into a close space, a summer wedding in a tent packed with a hundred people will be intolerable.A back-up generator should be utilized and placed far enough away from the guests that the noise does not become a problem.

Signing on the Dotted Line

Suppliers will erect your tent a week before the wedding, and they typically require a 50% deposit on the rental itself and the labor involved. If you give two to three day notice of a date change, the vendor will usually require an additional fee, due to lost business. If you decide to cancel your wedding altogether, about half of your deposit will be make good, which amounts to 25% of the total fees.An outdoor wedding can be a memorable experience, especially to those who feel stuffy in a building, or just want to save some extra money for their honeymoon or a down payment on their dream home.

Whatever kind of wedding tent that you select, ask around for quotes and options to get the best price and the right design.

About the Author

S Canfield, owner of Accent the Party selling many different types and themes of unique wedding party favors, bridal shower favors and party favors.

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