How Do We Decorate Our Marquee for Our Wedding?

wedding venue marquees are big spaces to fill.

How can we add atmosphere to your Bath, Somerset & Cotswold Wedding Marquee?

Hamswell House Bath  Wedding

Hamswell House Bath Marquee Wedding Decor

Photo Christophe Bourgeois Florals Coppergreen Flowers

Marquees weddings are wonderful blank canvas spaces with lofty ceilings that are easy to transform into unique, elegant venues. Many are located within beautiful surroundings and hopefully weather permitting the walls can be left open.

I love decorating marquees for weddings as you really can be creative and make them your own.

With any blank canvas wedding venue you can DIY it with wedding hire props or call in the professionals to help decorate and set up for you.

When decorating a marquee I recommend zoning your marquee, the areas I would zone include:

Marquee Wedding Entrance Decor

This sets the tone of your wedding - add milk churns, shepherds crooks with floral jars to line the entrance, an order of the day to let you guests know what will be happening and a when, you can add a welcome sign, personalised, a sign post directing guests to the destinations of your wedding.

Bittenham Springs Wedding Marquee Cotswolds

Bittenham Springs Wedding Marquee Cotswolds Photographer Captured by Katrina

Marquee Wedding Gift Display

Create an area where your guest can leave their cards and gifts, create a display with lanterns, hire wedding suitcases, hire vintage wooden crates for cards and a personalised wedding guest book is a great idea - why not ask guests to sign a map of places they recommend you visit, or to suggest special date nights written on postcards and put in a jar?

Marquee Wedding Welcome Table Somerset

Marquee Wedding Hire Welcome Table Sign Wedding Styling Rustic Rentals

Marquee Wedding Ceiling Decor

I really recommend getting creative to create the wow factor for your wedding hanging decor and wedding hanging floral decoration. So many options to have hanging hoops - either vertical or horizontal but horizontal are harder to level up, foliage or wedding floral ladders, fairy light installations, paper lanterns coloured or white and a modern alternative is folded fabric draping.

Marquee Wedding Drinks Reception & Bar

Wedding day drinks stations are an opportunity to make your wedding Pinterest worthy - you can hire a barrel bar and then add vintage a frames for hire , our indian cart and vintage dog cart are unique items to display your drinks.

Add straw bales with vintage galvanised baths for beers, lager and soft drinks or baths, vintage wine and champagne crates Don't forget water and soft drinks and hire some kilner jar dispensers filed with homemade lemonade, flavoured water or mocktails.

Marquee Wedding Seating Area

All guests will, appreciate somewhere more comfortable to sit after dinner ad especially more elderly guests, this is quite often overlooked and you can ask yo borrow friends or families rattan garden furniture, or we have vintage rattan chairs for hire. Add hire wedding rugs, hire wedding cushions, lanterns, some hire wedding blankets displayed on a hire wedding step ladder or in hire wedding apple crates to create a focal point for when it gets chilly and even add a fire pit and s’mores for later in the evening.

Marquee Wedding Cake Display

I advocate that you add decor and style the items you have already arranged. Your cake is a perfect opportunity to make this individually yours- you can use vintage hire console tables, ladder a frames, vintage indian hire carts - why not add some vintage hire shutters, arch or draping behind to create a backdrop?


Marquee Wedding Photo Booth

These can be made from a few hire vintage picture frames and you can add props if you wish for fun and they don’t need to be a special hired in unit. create a hash tag for guests to upload the photos.

Wedding Photo Booth Cotswolds

Wedding Vintage Hire Picture Frames


Hat Storage Display for Guests

This can be a fun way to create an area where guests can put their hats - you can use hire a frame ladders, or hanging rope to pin the hats onto, or vintage hat stands on a table.

Marquee Dance Area

Some couples chose to have a separate marquee for the wedding party dance floor, curtained off for the reception. Options include coloured dance floors, uplighting, and ceiling laser displays, or coloured lanterns - there are specialist events companies or you may have a dance floor within the main area of the wedding marquee.

Which Wedding Day Signage and Wedding Day Stationery Do I Need?

Wedding Signage and Stationery

How to chose the style and design of wedding day stationery and what wedding day stationery do I need?

Style of Your Wedding Day Stationery

There are many options to chose for your stye of wedding stationery.

Calligraphy and chalk pen writing are popular on wedding invitations, wedding name places, and other wedding signs & wedding stationery. Chalkboard signs, perspex wedding signs, shaped backdrops, wooden logs, kilner jars, stoneware are all options for adding calligraphy writing.

You have numerous font styles of writing to chose for your wedding stationery

Hand made paper stationery is elegant, timeless and beautiful

Wedding Chalkboard Sign - Barns & Yard

Card box

Use a box , basket, French Trug or modern gold lanterns for your guests wedding cards. The card box should be placed near your wedding entrance and with your wedding guest book.

Chalkboard signage

Our hire blackboard signage & hire vintage easels are popular for rustic weddings and vintage weddings

Name Place Cards & Table Plan

Individual cards for the guest name and their table name or number. Table Plans direct guests to their reception tables and decorated to make a statement with your decor, displayed on the dinner plate, or on the table above the place setting.

Hashtag Signage

Encourage guests to upload their photos with your personal wedding hashtag

Our hire blackboards are perfect for wedding signs

Wedding Hashtag Blackboard Sign

Wooden, acrylic signage & wedding neon signs

Laser cut, wooden and acrylic is popular for name cards and signs. A popular trend is wedding neon slogan signs.

Wedding Neon Sign

Menu cards

Individual guest menus or a large menu sign can be used to tell guests the menu for the wedding breakfast.

Wedding Menu

Wedding Menu Stationery

Signature cocktail sign

If you're serving special wedding drinks include the ingredients and descriptions on this sign.Why not have a couples choice of two wedding signature cocktails?

Wedding Indian Cart Bar

Wedding Indian Cart Bar

Wedding Table Number Or Wedding Table Plan

Wedding Table Numbers and names identify each reception table and are usually placed next to or inside of the wedding centerpieces.

Wedding Rustic Table Plan

Wedding Rustic Table Plan

Wedding Guest book

This can be a book where guests can sign their names and a messagefor the couple. The guest book is traditionally displayed on a table at the reception entrance. Framed portraits, recipe cards, post cards, maps, date night suggestions, holiday destination recommendations are all great ideas for wedding guest books.

Wedding Guest Book Sign

Travel Inspired Wedding Guest Book Sign

Wedding Welcome Sign, Plan Of The Day, Venue Signpost

These signs that greets and inform guests as they enter the ceremony or reception. Displayed on one of our hire table top easel and can include the wedding day timeline or other fun wedding details.This is an area you can get creative with your wedding decor.

If you wish to Hire Wedding Decor or Book A Wedding Styling Consultation

Autumn Wedding Decor Styling at a Manor House Wedding - Crowcombe Court

Autumn Wedding Decor Styling - Manor House Wedding - Crowcombe Court

How to blend a traditional wedding venue & setting with contemporary touches.

Featured in Your Bristol & Somerset County Wedding Magazine - February 2021

“Lynne Panes of Rustic Rentals dreamed up this gorgeous shoot, which seamlessly blends a traditional setting with contemporary touches, while injecting a hint of colour. “We wanted to show that you can add colour to your theme without it defining the overall palette of your day,” Lynne says. “We opted for an on-trend hint of blue alongside florals in pastels and autumnal shades.”

The focus was on the modern, elegant bride, with incredible outfits from Sassi Holford alongside beautiful lingerie and stunning hair and make-up. Team this with a swoon-worthy cake and dreamy tablescape design, and we’re in wedding heaven… “


Styling, props and coordination |www.rusticrentals.co.uk

Venue | www.crowcombecourt.co.uk

Photographer | www.photographybychantel.co.uk

Second photographer | https://mariamadison.co.uk

Videography and photography | www.samcookphotography.com

Bride and bridesmaid’s outfits | www.sassiholfordtaunton.co.uk

Shoes | https://dianehassall.com

Jewellery and accessories | www.victoriafergusson.co.uk

Lingerie | https://withloveandlace.co.uk

Garter | www.couturebridalaccessories.co.uk

Hair and make-up | www.nikkimullard.com

Cake | www.joannapydacakestudio.co.uk

Flowers | https://branchandbloom.co.uk

Harpist | www.serenesounds.co.uk

Stationery | https://louiserowlesdesigns.co.uk

Models | Laura Harwood | Laura Holland