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Many years ago we did a Xmas wedding marquee. The bride and groom wanted lots of Xmas trees with fairy lights, fairy lights in the roof, fairy lights around the sides. If any guest stood in one spot for too long they’d probably want fairy lights on them too! Sadly this was pre-internet so sourcing […]

I posted this last year but it has proved very popular and I keep referring people to it so here it is again: Nearly every time you use a marquee lining it will be to go in your standard marquee stock and (if it’s one of ours!) will fit perfectly. Easy. But sometimes you have […]

Now we all like to think that we keep our marquee equipment clean and well maintained at all times. Sadly that’s not always the case and this is especially true of linings, you can open a bag of linings that you swore were clean when the last marquee came down but now have a variety […]

This is something we learnt over the years. It’s very difficult keeping marquee linings clean, especially when you’re flat out and they’re going up and down every weekend. To start with we used a commercial cleaning company who turned round the linings within 2 days, the only problem with that is the linings came back […]

Marquee linings give a real wow factor to any marquee but they do need looking after. This means keeping them clean and as crease-free as possible. Please note this advice is for the luxury marquee linings that we (and one or two others) manufacture here in the UK. It is not suitable for the cheap […]

In the UK marquee industry now just about all professional marquee linings are ivory, this has come about from years of experience and customer feedback not just from us but from all lining manufacturers in the country. From a customer’s point of view ivory just adds a touch of class to the marquee, if you […]

When planning DJ areas try putting yourself in a DJ’s shoes: I was pointed to this forum recently: DJ forum There’s one post that was perfect for us so I’ve quoted it in full here: “Fortunately I only do a couple of marquee gigs each year, but there are four main reasons why I have […]

A good marquee electrical problem was posted on the forum, unfortunately it was lost in a database error just before the forum closed. I think it’s worth posting here not to scaremonger but to reinforce my post of a couple of weeks ago stating you should only tackle electrical tasks you are confident in. This […]

Putting up marquees is easy. Putting up our lighting packages is easy. Planning the lighting and electrical requirements for a large marquee event is not so easy. As a marquee hire company gets bigger naturally the events you cover become larger and more sophisticated, with that in mind you might want to consider going on […]

At some point in your marquee erecting career you’ll have a problem with the power supply, generally shown by a lack of available light, lack of music or lack of tea facilities. What to do? Golden rule: Start at the power source and work your way to the marquee. There’s no point dismantling a chandelier […]