Christmas Marquee Hire

Christmas Marquee Hire for Parties at Home and Work

Christmas and New Year gatherings can quickly outgrow the space available at home or work, leaving guests crowded around extended tables and borrowed chairs. A marquee creates a comfortable additional room at your own premises, so you can host everyone without moving the celebration elsewhere.

Project Marquee provides Christmas marquee hire across Surrey, South West London and Middlesex, including Kingston, Richmond, Twickenham and the surrounding areas. We design every marquee around your guest numbers, venue and plans, whether you are hosting Christmas lunch for the whole family, an evening party with friends or an end-of-year event for employees and clients. Many clients also keep their marquee in place for a New Year’s Eve celebration.

December is one of the busiest periods for marquee hire, and weekend dates are often reserved well in advance. If you are planning a Christmas event, contact us early to check availability and allow enough time for a site visit and detailed planning.

Create an Additional Room Outside Your Home

Even a reasonably spacious home can begin to feel crowded when the dining table is extended, extra chairs are brought in from other rooms and suddenly several generations arrive at once.

Your marquee can be positioned next to the house and connected to French doors, sliding doors or bifold doors where the site allows. We can assess the best position during a site visit. A well-planned connection enables guests to move easily between the house and marquee while making use of a garden or patio area that might otherwise remain empty during winter.

The marquee could become your main dining room, somewhere to serve drinks and food, an evening party space or a combination of all three. Meanwhile, the house remains available for food preparation, quieter seating or somewhere for children to play.

Instead of squeezing everyone around furniture that was never intended for such a large gathering, you can create a layout designed for the number of people you have invited.

Plan the Space Around Your Christmas Celebration

No two Christmas gatherings are quite the same, so we plan the marquee around the way you want to use it.

Each type of gathering has different needs:

• A family Christmas lunch might need dining tables, comfortable seating and space for serving food.
• An evening party may need a bar, informal seating, a dance floor and room for entertainment.
• An event running from lunch into the evening needs a layout that works comfortably for both parts of the celebration.

The size and layout of the marquee will depend on how you plan to use it. Before the site visit, it helps to think about the following practical requirements:

• The number of expected guests
• Dining tables and seating arrangements
• Space for a buffet, bar or catering area
• A dance floor and entertainment
• Movement between the house and marquee
• Heating, flooring and lighting
• Access for installation and removal

Thinking about these details from the outset allows the marquee to be planned as a complete space, rather than adding individual elements later.

A Comfortable Space in Winter

It is understandable to wonder whether a marquee will be warm enough for a Christmas event. With the right preparation and equipment, it can stay comfortable even when the temperature outside falls, especially in the evenings.

A Christmas marquee can be supplied with hard flooring, carpet, interior lining and thermostatically controlled heating, giving it the feel of an additional room. Heating can be switched on before guests arrive and adjusted automatically as the outside temperature and activity levels change. Flooring and carpet provide a barrier from cold or damp ground, while the lining creates a softer, more finished setting for a festive occasion.

You can learn more about the equipment and planning involved in our guide to heated marquee hire.

Lighting and Decorations for Christmas

Lighting can completely change the atmosphere inside a marquee, especially during the darker winter months.

Warm lighting creates a welcoming setting for Christmas lunch, while coloured effects can give an evening party a more energetic feel. A twinkling starlight canopy can help transform the marquee as the celebration moves from dining to dancing.

Once the flooring, lining, furniture and lighting are in place, you can add your own Christmas tree, table decorations, greenery and other festive touches. Planning their positions in advance means they complement the layout without restricting entrances, walkways or usable space. It also ensures trees and decorations are kept a safe distance from heaters and lighting.

Keep the Marquee for New Year’s Eve

If you are planning celebrations for both Christmas and New Year, we can usually arrange to extend the hire period so the marquee can be used for both occasions.

After Christmas, some of the dining tables can be removed or repositioned to make more room for drinks, dancing and entertainment. Different lighting and decorations can then give the same marquee a fresh atmosphere for New Year’s Eve.

Keeping the marquee in place until New Year depends on availability and the hire period agreed when booking, so please mention it when you first contact us.

If you’d like to make the most of your marquee across the festive season, contact us to check availability for your dates.

Corporate Christmas Party Marquee Hire

A marquee can also provide a flexible setting for a company Christmas party, end-of-year celebration or client event.

Where suitable outdoor space is available at an office, warehouse or other commercial premises, a marquee allows the business to hold its Christmas event on site. This can provide an alternative when hotels and event venues have limited December availability, while giving the organiser more control over the date, layout and running of the event.

It also gives you greater control over the timings, catering, drinks, entertainment and appearance of the space. Employees already know how to get there, which makes the event easier to attend and the journey home simpler at the end of the night.

A smaller marquee may suit an informal staff gathering. A larger structure can accommodate dining tables, a bar, entertainment and invited clients. The interior can be tailored to the style of the event, from a relaxed Christmas lunch to a more formal evening celebration. See our corporate event marquee hire page for more information.

Planning Your Christmas Marquee

A site visit allows us to assess the available space and recommend a suitable marquee. We will consider the dimensions of the site, the surface, access, proximity to buildings and the proposed guest layout.

We can also discuss the practical elements of the event, including furniture, heating, lighting, flooring, catering space and a dance floor where needed.

Starting early gives you a better choice of dates. It also leaves enough time to coordinate the marquee with caterers, entertainment and other suppliers.

Christmas Marquee Hire Across Surrey, South West London and Middlesex

Whether you are bringing the extended family together at home, holding a Christmas party for friends or thanking your employees and clients at the end of the year, Project Marquee can help you create the additional space you need.

We plan every marquee around your venue, guest numbers and type of celebration. When you get in touch, it helps to include your event date, approximate guest numbers and a photo of the space you have in mind.

Contact us now to discuss your Christmas or New Year event and arrange for us to visit you for a site visit.