How Much is a Marquee Wedding at Home?
How Much is a Marquee Wedding at Home? Having your marquee wedding at home has so many benefits. You won’t be paying any land hire fees and more importantly the experience for you will be so much more personal in comparison to hiring a venue.
You may be using your parents’ home and to have your wedding where you grew up with something really special. You’ll also have more time to do any setting up for the wedding at home, rather than feeling rather than having the feeling a bit like on the wedding venues conveyor belt, being thrown in with little time to set up and out the other side before you know that the experience could be quite rushed.
Your home will likely not have all the infrastructure that’s required for a wedding. So here’s my quick guide on budgeting for your wedding at home. You may have the space the required to install a large marquee in your garden. However, you’ll need to start budgeting for around £700 for external toilets and perhaps another £600 for a generator. For small weddings, you may be able to get away with using your own house toilets and power. If you’re a guest number’s are higher than 60 you’ll more than likely need the extra toilet and power infrastructure in place.
It goes without saying, there’s a big price difference between a 50 seated wedding and a 250 seated wedding. As the marquee size of infrastructure would increase with higher guest numbers.
I always say buying a hiring the marquee is a little like buying a car. By the time we add all the extras, the cost will increase in how lavish you’d like the interior of your marquee will often impact pricing. To help give you a rough ballpark cost when starting prices of marquees I would suggest a starting cost of £25 – £30 per head for a wedding based specification marquee.
For example, a hundred person wedding marquee would cost around £3000 including the marquee itself fitting with flooring, carpet, linings and tables and chairs.
A typical wedding spec marquee with hard floor, carpet, lining, chairs & tables.
How Much is a Marquee Wedding at Home?
Adding in items such as dance floors, bar infrastructure and lighting systems may push your starting prices to around £30 – £40 per head. If you wanted a bit more of a luxury finish then prices will start from round about £60 per head.
Cost of Catering
There are obviously other supplies involved to help make your wedding day a huge success.And your second largest cost of your wedding will be your caterer. If you’re considering formal seated catering the cost of this catering tends to be very similar to the cost of the marquee which should hopefully give you a good indication of your overall wedding expenses.
If you’re looking to something a little bit more informal such as a food van or a barbecue catering then budget for another £10 – £20 per head.
You may also want to consider budgeting for bar staff DJs and bands, event photographers, florists and perhaps evening catering for the guests the evening part too. If you’re providing the alcohol for your guests all day I would budget an additional £20 – £40 per head. You may want to consider a pay bar during your wedding to help reduce overall costs. If done correctly, a pay bar can provide a small profit to contribute towards your wedding budget.
And at the same time guests will be paying considerably cheaper prices. We amongst other marquee high companies can provide all the infrastructure required to do this without the help of an external bar high company who’d usually make the profit.
Going back to my car analogy from earlier you can buy a £10,000 car – you can also buy a £100,000 car. It would all depend on your taste and experience that you’d like to gift your guests. The two largest factors in the success of your big day is the marquee and the catering.
You do certainly get what you pay for with both marquee hire and catering. To do your research looking at prices other as there are event companies positions at various ends of the market.
When doing your research, take a look at reviews and case studies, as well as images of their previous work. You’ll be leaning on your marquee high supplier and cater a lot more than you think!
How Much is a Marquee Wedding at Home?
So it’s important to get these two suppliers right. Hopefully I’ve given you more of an idea of overall wedding costs. And if you’d like a quote from the UK highest reviewed event company, and start this on your perfect day with our interactive quote below or call us on 014 62 262 012.
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