Wedding tents and tipis

If a stately home isn’t for you, and the local hotel is a bit too straight laced, cre­ate a mag­i­cal atmos­phere with a tipi for your wed­ding reception!

UK wed­ding tipis and tents

One of the very first wed­dings I fea­tured on the blog, by the amaz­ing Devon wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher Rosie Par­sons, had a tipi wed­ding recep­tion — I fell in love with the pho­tographs at first glance — inside and out, a tipi will always look fantastic.

Ten or so years ago this would have raised eye­brows, but now in the UK wed­ding tents and tipis are a real trend — and they’re always gorgeous.

A great alter­na­tive to a tra­di­tional white mar­quee, a tipi style wed­ding tent is a real style statement.

Hir­ing a tra­di­tional tipi for your wed­ding will cost around £2-4k depend­ing on the size. That price includes the main fur­nish­ings… floor, chairs, light­ing. And don’t worry about erect­ing your own tents — it’s all done for you of course. (You don’t have to tell your hus­band to be… might be fun if he thinks he’ll be in charge of tent pegs.)

Where to get a wed­ding tipi in the UK

Try the fol­low­ing wed­ding tipi spe­cial­ists for size:

PapaKata based in York. I love their web­site, it’s full of infor­ma­tion with floor plans, photo gal­leries and advice about hir­ing a wed­ding tipi. Did you know you can even add a real log fire in win­ter? How per­fect is that!

“It is an ancient tra­di­tion to have cel­e­bra­tions around a fire and it brought unbe­liev­able magic to our wed­ding day, to have our friends and fam­ily joy­fully gath­ered around the fire.….with the glit­ter ball and fairy lights spin­ning, their glow like a mil­lion stars into the night.….thank you to the Sami peo­ple of Lap­land for the orig­i­nal design and to PapaKata for the event of a life­time!” — Maggy and David (quote from Papakata’s site)

World Inspired Tents based in North Devon

Beau­ti­ful World Tents based in West Sussex