How Much is a Marquee Wedding at a Venue?
Hiring a stunning and beautiful venue to host your wedding will often be the biggest factor in the experience and the success of your big day – a marquee can often be the perfect place to host your wedding reception in such beautiful surroundings.
It goes without saying there’s a big price difference between a 50 seated wedding and the 250 seated wedding, as the marquee size and infrastructure will increase with high guests numbers. If you are considering hiring a marquee at a venue you will have to factor in the venue hire costs to your wedding budget, which can range from £1,500 to £10,000, depending on location.
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Hiring a Field for your Wedding Venue
There are various “fields” and land you can rent that have been set up as places to hire out a marquee wedding. There are lots of online search platforms out there which show you your nearest potential wedding locations. Expect to pay anything from £1500-£2500 for the exclusive rights of just the land itself.
When budgeting for , you may have to hire in generators and toilets, too. Adding these would add another about £1,500 to your budget. If you are hiring remote location in a field for example, you may require a catering tent which would add around about £500 to the budget. Your caterer would also have to bring in cooking equipment within the catering tent and you’ll need to speak to your caterer themselves as these costs will change depending on the catering choices that you’re thinking of bringing in.
Hiring a Designated Wedding Venue
Designated and purpose built venues such as stately homes & manor houses will have far greater hire costs in comparison. These can range from £2000 to £10, 000 depending on where they are and their position in the market.
We work closely with Nortonbury Spa, near Letchworth. They are situated in a nice wooded area and exclusive rights to their large private garden for marquee weddings start at £1500. This includes the use of their toilets & power that is permanently installed there – which provides a fantastic saving. They can be found here.
Nortonbury Spa, Letchworth is a beautiful yet very cost effective wedding venue.
Ballpark Costs of a Marquee Wedding Hire at a Venue
To help you give a rough ballpark cost with starting prices for the marquees, I would suggest a starting cost of £25 – £30 per head for wedding-based, specification marquee.
For example, a 100 guest wedding will cost around about £3,000 including the marquee, flooring, carpet, linings, and chairs and tables.
Adding in items such as dance floors, bar infrastructure and lighting systems may push your prices to around £30 – £40 pounds per head.
If you’re wanting more of a luxury finish, then prices will start from roundabout £65 per head.
Cost of Catering
There are obviously other suppliers involved to help make your wedding day a huge success. Your other largest cost of your wedding will also be your caterer. If you’re considering formal seated catering the cost of the catering tend to be very similar to the cost of the marquee itself which should hopefully give you a good indication of your overall wedding expenses.
If you’re looking for something a little bit more informal such as a food van or barbecue catering then budget a little bit less right about £10 – £20 per head.
Cost of Running a Bar
If you’re providing the alcohol for your guests all day I would also budget an additional £20 – £40 pounds per head. You may want to consider a pay bar during your wedding to help reduce your overall costs. If done correctly a pay bar can provide a small profit to contribute to your wedding budget at the same time your guests be paying considerably cheaper prices compared to paying venue prices. We amongst other marquee hire companies can provide all the infrastructure required to do this without the help of an external bar company to come in who would usually take the profit.
Going back to my car analogy from earlier you can buy a £10,000 car and you can also buy a £100, 000 car – you need to work out what you maximum budget is for the complete wedding and work backward from there. 70% of your overall wedding budget will be going to venue hire, marquee & catering.
The three largest factors in the success of your big day is the venue, marquee, and the catering. You do certainly get what you pay for with both marquees and catering so do your research when looking at prices as there are event companies positioned at various ends of the market.
When doing your research take a look at the reviews and case studies as well as images of their previous work. You’ll be leaning on your marquee hire supplier and caterer a lot more than you think, so it’s important you get these two suppliers right.
So How Much is a Marquee Wedding at a Venue?
It does ultimately depend on your tastes – getting your budget set early so you can find the correct wedding suppliers within the market is crucial.
Hopefully I’ve given you a bit more of an idea of an overall wedding costs, and if you’d love a quote from the UK highest reviewed event company, and start designing your perfect day with that interactive quote below and get in touch on 01462 262011.
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