Want to create that hippie, boho vibe on your big day? The tipi may just be your perfect wedding booking!
If you’re planning to have an outdoor wedding and want a creative way to celebrate it, a tipi wedding is a great option for a wedding venue. A tipi wedding means you can have a unique celebration in the great outdoors, and it can be hosted wherever you wish. In a field, a big garden or even a forest!
The great thing about a tipi wedding is that you can decorate your venue exactly as you wish. Show off your personalities with details like fairy lights, quirky furniture and outside fire pits. While you can hire plenty of dedicated tipi venues, they can also be hired to set up wherever you dreamed of tying the knot.
Today we thought we’d share some tips on how to make sure your tipi wedding goes as planned and also two of our amazing suppliers who can help make it happen.
How to Plan a Tipi Wedding
1. Get your venue right. Make sure the location you’re planning to host your wedding in has enough space for your tipi, or is set up to accommodate one. If you are hiring a field or using your own back garden, you’ll need to think of hiring extras too – like toilet facilities and generators.
2. Decide on how many tipis you need, dependent on how many guests you have. Most companies can join a tipi together with another to make a bigger wedding venue, just make sure you can accommodate all of your guests.
3. If you are celebrating your wedding in a tipi, you won’t actually be able to hold a legal ceremony in if you’re marrying in England or Wales (you can in Scotland). Create a plan for where you can exchange your vows, such as at a nearby church or registry office. You can always marry beforehand and then have a celebrant-led ceremony.
4. Decide on your wedding theme before you starting looking at flowers, decoration or furniture to fill your chosen tipi. As it’s a blank canvas, you’ll need quite a lot of decoration. Creating a coherent style that’s personal to you and represents who you are as a couple is key to creating a memorable setting.
5. From giant letters to photo walls, there are plenty of ways to make your venue shine. Some tipi companies have their own furniture and accessories you can hire, but they may not be right for your wedding. Don’t feel you need to hire everything they offer; get a good grasp of your own vision first.
6. Adding lighting can make the space unique too, like different colour spotlights or festoon fairy lights. Draping lights over a wedding arch or a tree can also add atmosphere to your tipi.
7. Plan for rain... There is nothing worse than stressing about the weather in the week before your wedding because you haven’t got a wet weather plan for your tipi.
8. Make the most of the great outdoors. Seasonal flowers, hanging floral displays, fragrant herbs in your table arrangements, lines of lights hanging throughout the tent and out into the trees – let your party flow easily between inside and outside spaces.
9. Make sure guests know what to expect. Does the flooring mean that stiletto heels are not an option? Would you recommend they bring a warmer jacket for later in the evening? Will they be able to park nearby? What kind of accommodation is there surrounding your venue? Can you book taxis easily?
10. Remember to stay relaxed on the day. It’s one big celebration, and you should enjoy every single bit of it, so don’t get too hung up on every little detail. If you seek the help of people you trust, you can create an event that will be wonderful and everyone will love it.
Book the Best Tipi Wedding Venue in Kent
Bilsington Festival Fields
Set within the stunning 500 acre Bilsington Priory Estate, the Festival Fields are the perfect blank canvas to hold your unique wedding. There are multiple fields and locations for your chosen structure. You
will have full flexibility to choose the view and set-up that suits you.
The location is ideal for couples wanting a wedding with a more relaxed feel or festival vibe. Greet your guests with sweeping views towards the Romney Marsh and celebrate your big day in the peaceful surroundings of the Kent countryside.
There are a number of different tipi structure options varying in style, and their team will be happy to go through them with you, ensuring you make the right choice for your wedding.
Check out more of their Tipis and their amazing location here
Tipi Wedding Planner & Event Stylist in Kent
House of Wedding
House of Wedding is a small and friendly wedding planning team. Together they have over 10 years experience in events planning including weddings, live music festivals, corporate parties and large conferences.
The House of Wedding team creates festival style weddings in the heart of Kent. They love planning weddings and are really excited to work in collaboration with Gravel Pit Farm and Longberry Farm. Both of their sites are fully licensed wedding areas. At Gravel Pit Farm the Mahaba ceremony area offers luxury and tranquility in a Savannah style setting (‘Mahaba’ meaning love in Swahili).
At Longberry Farm their beautiful wedding ceremony area is called The Gardenia which is nestled beautifully in the surrounding countryside. Both sites offer the perfect backdrop for a boho, hippie chic wedding.
Find out more about House of Wedding & see more of their work here.
