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 Hello and welcome to another episode of the Wedding Lounge podcast. This episode is quite close to

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 Evie and I's heart. We're going to be talking about marquees and marquee styles. We're going to

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 take you through the details of four of the big hitters, yeah, in the marquee world. And then at the

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 end we'll let you know about some of the other ones, but we won't go into quite so much detail about

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 them, we'd be here for ages, basically. So I am going to start off by going through a frame marquee

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 or sometimes they're known as clear spelling of our geese. So a frame marquee is basically

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 an aluminium frame with a PVC cover. So there are no ropes and no poles involved with a frame marquee.

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 They are secured by using pegs or weights if pegs were to be appropriate. And for that reason,

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 they can actually be erected on a variety of surfaces. So rust, tennis courts, concrete, we've got more

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 options of where you can have a frame marquee. So they also, they don't require a lot of space around

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 the outside of the structure. So therefore they can fit into awkward spaces if you've not got a

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 large space or if you even want to attach them to the side of the building or have them very close

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 up to your house in your garden, for example. Inside, because they are a frame, there aren't any poles,

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 so you have an unobstructed view in the inside of your marquee, which just helps with design

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 element, you haven't got things in the way of speeches, for example. You have various options

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 of the sides, you can have them all shot if you need them to be with you're getting married in

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 the winter or it's just a bit windy. You can have the sides pulled back, they're like a curtain,

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 so you can pull them back and have sides open for getting a breeze in, for example, or you can have

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 them removed properly. They have a metal bar that goes across the bottom, so you can roll them up

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 and tie them on, but it can look quite messy with the poles and it's heavy. Yeah, it's easy just to

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 remove them if you want them done, but you have that flexibility on the day with a frame marquee.

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 They do look better lined, there's no two ways about it, you obviously have a metal structure

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 as the frame, so if you don't have them lined, you're going to have metal poles and uprights

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 throughout the back of your pictures, which probably isn't what you're looking for with your

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 wedding photos, like industrial. Yes, so you definitely want to have them lined, there are various

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 options of lining, whether you have them flat lined, sort of a folded lining, depending on your

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 look and design for your wedding day. They are options of carpet, which floor or matting in them,

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 because they're nice sort of square structures, it's easy to have a variety of different flooring,

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 just check with your marquee company what they're able to provide. They come in a variety of widths

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 in increments of three meters, so you can choose different widths for your marquee and obviously

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 different length if you have more of them added together. They can be connected, as I just said,

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 to make different size structures, different shapes, if you want an L shaped marquee, they're really

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 handy to have, because you can link the two to that, though without having sort of a connecting curtain

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 or reveal curtain inside, you can create different aspects to your marquee design. They are a

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 practical option for the winter. They have a higher safety rating for wind and snow, so they

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 are a good option for winter wedding. If it is windy, then they will make sure that they use pegs,

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 they won't just use weights to hold it down, because you don't want to have the risk of your marquee

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 blowing away. One option that you can have with your frame marquee is having a key roof,

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 which air point a nice element to the design. You can have, I've seen them before, people have them

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 for dancing tents, they just have fairy light in the roof, so you have like sparkle at night time,

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 but you must be aware that obviously they do act like a bit like the greenhouse, don't they?

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 And you don't want your guests, if you've got tables underneath the clear part of your marquee,

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 you don't want the guests, the tables, to be melted while they're eating. And also, I don't,

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 do you remember Bernadette saying about the story of dance floor melting? The black and white

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 dance floor and the black elements all melted because it was out in the sun all day. Yeah, that was

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 Bernadette chat. So if you're going to have a clear roof marquee over your dance floor,

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 make sure you have either a white or a wood. Yes. And in fact, I wouldn't even go with anything

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 that's remotely plastic or white because you don't want it to melt because they honestly,

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 they just add like a greenhouse and they add it up. The clear roof does add a nice design element,

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 you might have the whole thing, but I would probably not go whole clear because you want some

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 kind of shade in there. I think if you're going to go clear, not in the summer. Yes. Go for sort of,

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 I mean, the perfect time to do it is April. I had a, an April wedding that had a totally clear

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 roof marquee. Oh, beautiful. We put quite a lot of foliage in which softened the sunlight,

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 which was quite good. Another one I did, which was the middle of July. The client really wanted

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 a clear roof marquee, even though we, we had said to them, it will get really hot. Fortunately,

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 it was quite an overcast day. We put draping in to kind of help shield and opened up all the sides,

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 but it can get really hot. Yeah, so definitely just be aware of that if you're having the clear roof

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 on your, on your frame marquee. The other thing to mention with the clear is that you obviously

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 will have the metal exposed because you're not putting a lot in there. Yeah, because it's just

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 something to be aware of when you're thinking about the aesthetic of it that there is the metal pole

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 element there. So you still want something going on in the roof whether that's fairy lights,

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 festoon lights, foliage, bit of dressing table, yeah, streamers, all sorts, but it's just something

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 to be aware of when you're going through that element. Definitely. So that is a frame marquee

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 for you. And whilst we're sticking on the square-ended shapes, and not as you will hear

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 with these fantastic new word, what is it? Squoval. Squoval. Squoval is coming for you.

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 A traditional marquee, which is a rectangular shape, so they have nice square corners,

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 it's quite a good use of space. Yeah, unlike the sails of tents, which you can get quite a lot of

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 dead rim in. A traditional tent is that rectangular or square shape, which you can make use of

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 every part. Unlike a clear span marquee, they have poles and gyrops, so you need five meters

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 around the outside for your gyrops to go in. And then you'll have poles central down the middle

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 that are called your king poles, hold up the ceiling. With those poles, they obviously create

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 a beautiful aesthetic, but they are something to bear in mind. You can put floral hoops around them,

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 you can tie trees to you. You can put a circular bar around it. There's so many different options,

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 but they are structurally integral to the tent. They're there and there's no way of getting around it.

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 You just got to make them pretty and include them into your wedding design. Exactly. Fast with the

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 gyrops around the outside. With having the gyrops, it means they can only be pegged down, so they

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 need to be on grass. Yeah, you can't put them on the, unless you have a grass tennis court and you're

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 okay with having holes in it. You can't put them on a tennis court. You can't put them over

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 anything where there is a hard surface. It's really important to know where your services are

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 underground. Yes, with any marquee. They look better lined. You can have flat linings or you can

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 have the traditional ruched lining. You could get star cloth ceiling. Yes. There's lots of options

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 you can have, but they tend to come with lining. The windows around the outside, you can have panoramic,

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 which gives you lovely big view, or you can have the traditional art shaped window. Or you can have

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 them just totally white. So if you're blocking off the view that you don't particularly like, or

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 brick wall, bar part, you can just hide all that. You can roll up the sides. You can pull them to one

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 side, or you can take them off, so there's loads of different options. And that can be done on the day,

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 can't it? It can. Yeah, and then you can roll them back down when it gets colder at night, and it's

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 the case of they've got like ropes that you can connect that lace together. Oh, I love that. I love

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 unlacing. Yeah, something really satisfying about unlacing, don't you think? It's what it is.

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 I know. It's when guests try and come and help you. No, no, what'd you do in your?

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 Things are going to get all up. Oh, clear span marquees. You put zips on them. Yes, exactly. They're

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 much quicker to one. Yeah. With the flooring, you could have matting. You can have wooden floor,

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 which you have carpet over the hard floor. The ground doesn't need to be perfectly even

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 if you're going with a hard floor, because you can level the ground, so you can have it on

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 slight structural supports or stilts to kind of level it off. So if you've got a slight slope to

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 your garden, you'll need to go with the hard floor to kind of level it up and make the tent itself

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 level, which is an increasing cost. Matting is definitely the cheapest option. But you sometimes lose

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 people down a hole. I don't even see my keys. There's someone's chair. It's like half a

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 minute. Yeah, rabbit holes. Good old, rather. You've got loads of options with lighting as well

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 with an earth tent like that, like you can have fairy lights all in the top or facetones,

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 or you can go with chandeliers down the middle with stones hanging. So yes, there's loads of

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 different options with lighting. And again, with your lining, you can have the lining that comes

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 with the tent, which is typically ivory or white, or you can look at some draping options.

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 Because you can get a pulley system that helps you elevate things within the rear structure of

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 the tent. They are much better being lined. So you get a join between the round where they put the

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 and marquee structure around the pole. It gets laced together much like sides get laced together.

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 So it's definitely better to line your traditional tents. So Natasha touched upon

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 a sailcloth tent. She mentioned it there when she was talking about traditional marquees.

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 Now sailcloth tents, you may have also heard of them referred to as spary tents or a tidewater tent.

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 They are specific brands, makes of a sailcloth tent. But essentially, they are the same concept of

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 using a sailcloth. So much like the traditional structure, the sailcloth marquee is a pole structure,

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 so it has king poles and also poles on the outside with guide ropes. So you do need to have five meters

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 around the outside of your marquee to allow for the guide ropes. Sailcloth marquee is essentially

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 the poles with sailcloth canopy. So you get with the sailcloth marquee, you get the really high

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 peaks, which is absolutely lovely. You can have them in a single or double width. So you could have

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 like one pole going down, or you could have like two poles going around, so you get extra, extra width

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 and extra room for your guests. And they come in various lengths. Now this is something that you

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 like I thought scrawel was a word, but perhaps not. So I always describe sailcloths as scrawel,

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 because they are square, but with like overlays. So not a full oval, even having a conversation about

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 this, and the task of what is scrawel, but I'm going to be so very good. I'm going to have to

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 look it up. So your sailcloth tent will be straight at the sides and then the fins will be rounded

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 like an oval. I'm holding my hands up, ready for listening to the podcast, you won't be able to see

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 this. So they're scrawel, sorry, with the high peaks of the canopy, which they just, they are

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 stunning structures and they look really nice. Like with the traditional marquee, they have to be on

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 grass because you have the guide ropes, which need the five metres. You can have your sides rolled up,

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 marquee, you'll have the lacing, the rope lacing the sides together. And when you're choosing your

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 marquee design before the day, you can obviously decide to have white opaque sides or ivory,

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 whatever the colour is of the tent, or translucent sides you can see out. It's worth mentioning

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 that with a sailcloth tent, you can't have a door. Yes, you tend to just have an opening.

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 where two poles would be. Yeah, but they just open up one part of the tent view to walk through,

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 whereas with the traditional one, you can have a door actually put in. And the same with the

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 clay roof marquee, you can have a door put in. You can have an entrance tent, yes, added on,

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 which we were going to touch upon, yeah, touch upon entrance tents in a minute. But if you just go

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 over the sailcloth, you're just open to the elements. Yeah, without a door. Definitely. So that is

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 wet summer wedding, that you might, might want to go for a different style marquee so that you can

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 shut off if you know you've got guests that are going to fill the cold. You don't usually tend to

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 decorate the sailcloth tent with additional lining. They're quite beautiful when they're put up,

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 so you don't often need to add something, but you do obviously have the options to add flowers

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 around the poles, a bar, round bars, suspended floral arrangements. Then I think that you like to

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 decorate the marquee as well as long as it fits like with any marquee within the weight limits of

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 what structure come with stand, but your marquee provider will go through that with you. You can also

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 scoval. You're going to laugh every time I say that. Sure. Depend of on your marquee supplier,

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 clop it in a scoval sailcloth tent. You can interlink sailcloth tents by a tunnel between them,

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 but usually you have them by yourself, you'd only really link maybe a porch catering tent at the back,

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 but you don't normally have numerous sailcloth tents linked together like you would with a frame marquee.

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 lovely, beautiful structures. What I really like is when you put the festine lights with

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 flying lights over the top on the outside. With that, they do produce quite a lot of light, though.

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 outside of the tent, they can be seen through the tent and create quite translucent colour,

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 but they are striking, striking structures. Beautiful. What's the last one that you're going to go

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 through for a stretch tent? A stretch tent. A stretch tent, which is quite an unusual structure.

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 They're really, I would describe them as quite a modern death shape. They're quite fluid,

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 so you essentially have a piece of canvas that is stretched, using poles at the edge,

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 and then internally you put king poles in sporadically around to hold the structure up. But the thing

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 with a stretch tent is that because it's fluid and because the central poles aren't always put

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 in in the most linear way, yes. It's quite difficult to work around. Use the space effectively.

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 as a ceremony tent. They can do the poles instead of having like one central king pole. You could have

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 two central king poles that go either side of an aisle, and then other poles dotted around to kind of

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 hold off the rest of the roof. I have had a client use one or an entire wedding, which was really cool.

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 So you mean the wedding breakfast and the ceremony? Yeah, the whole thing was inside a stretch tent,

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 which was brilliant. Now with the sides of a stretch tent, they either need to come all the way down

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 to the ground, so it's kind of like it slopes off, which leaves you with quite a lot of dead space,

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 that you can't really use, or you can have them pitched up. When they're pitched up, they're more just

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 like a cover with the sides open to the elements, just like having the canopy above your heads,

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 that's covering you from the elements, then it is something stopping wind or cold weather or rain

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 getting in. They're great. Obviously, if you've got a really hot day and you dream of having an

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 alfresco wedding, when everything being outside, a stretch tent is wonderful, because you can

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 dine underneath almost like a giant umbrella, essentially, and still feel like you're outside.

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 heat, there's one summit, it must have been a couple of years ago now, it was so hot, everyone's

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 lawns were scorched brown, and I think people were actually, you know, thinking where is the shade?

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 Typically they come in tan, white or gray. We have a company we work with who have a sort of like

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 steel gray colour. The white ones are lovely. The tan with black is quite modern, so they've got black

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 or a sale cotton, or a clear span, lighting can be tricky. Yes. You're limited to very lights or

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 the likelihood of having something like that exposed and seen is quite high. Unless you have it

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 behind the sides that's totally down and touching the ground. And your caterers need to walk around

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 the side to get into the tent. You're going to see a catering tent. So it's worth just considering

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 that when choosing a stretch tent. Or having a more sort of relaxed style wedding where you might

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 a whole theatre with catering. Brilliant. So there are lots of other structures out there.

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 beautiful is a glass tent. Yes. Which is essentially a or injury that is erected. There's one

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 They're very unique. They are very unique. And they're fairly solid. But again, it's a glass

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 much smaller. Yes. So you've got lots of different options for for your marquee. And you know,

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 have because if you fancied a more sort of like a round structure, then a yacht could work if you've

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 choosing your marquee style. Fantastic, thank you, Evie. And next week on the podcast, we have got

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