Is anyone planning on or already booked any tipis / Kata style tents for their wedding?

We have worked at quite a few festival themed weddings with Tipis.

Have you had a look at this site? It has a good list iof suppliers: http://thenaturalweddingcompany.co.uk/category/261/tipis-tents.html

Good luck! SOunds like it will be a fun wedding!

I can't really help with recommendations but I just want to say I'm very jealous! Would have loved to have had tips but they were just too much for our budget. Hope you choose them!

Get a quote from World Inspired Tents. One of my best friends used them for her wedding - in fact a picture from her wedding pops up on the website when you open it (hers is the one with the strings of lights outside). They are excellent and I highly recommend them:

http://www.worldinspiredtents.co.uk/

We were looking at having the 'giant hat' katas at a venue in sussex, but unfortunately it just worked out as too expensive We would have needed 2 large tents and a small one for catering, loos, proper flooring, heating lights, all furniture, all in all it worked out as around 10k, and that was before any catering. They look amazing, but be prepared to think of all the extras like proper flooring (apparently coconut matting isn't great if its wet) loo tents/catering tents if you need them, furniture, lighting etc. Instead we've gone for a palce with a permenant marquee set up with wooden flooring, heating and the catering tent all in for half the price

I think if you're set on Kata tents/tipis, you have to resign yourself to a big spend. H2B had his heart set on them, he did a lot of research and shopping around - as a buyer by trade he is always very good at negotiating discounts with suppliers, but this is one thing he couldn't get a deal on anywhere. There are simply too few companies and too much demand for them to need to be competitive on price.

We've gone for capri marquees instead. Not only does it work out around a fifth of the cost, i actually prefer them as they're airier and lighter, and i think while lovely, the novelty factor of tipis has worn off now.

Thanks everyone for your suggestions and info, I'll have a proper look later when I'm not at work.

We are lucky that the event will be in the grounds of the family farmhouse so no hire cost for this and there will already be toilet facilities and a large farmhouse kitchen for catering on site so we might be able to get away with the basic tents. I'm also planning on decorating, sourcing and making everything with help from my mum and MIL, both of whom are very nifty with sewing machines and cake making.

It's early days though and we haven't actually got round to seeing what everything will amount to yet. I'll be cutting costs wherever I can though and pulling in some favours, so hopefully we can afford one.

I a friend had one of these earlier in the year in the grounds of a hotel but as they are so expensive decided to just have the coco matting as flooring and in the end after a lot of heavy rain the whole tipi was flooded and they couldnt use it for any part of the wedding. So if anything make sure you pay the money for a proper flooring!

Good tips about the flooring guys, I'll make sure it's not coconut if we do go ahead, the farm is in the Peak District so it's bound to rain!

We're having Katas!

Ours will be through Beautiful world tents. They've been amazing and so lovely thus far.

Hi Colyflower,

How did you get on with finding reasonably priced tipis? Me and h2b are in the same boat as it seems you were although we will need to pay for the land hire too. Tipis are just what we are after but so expensive!! Completely blowing our £3000 reception budget. We are after a festival inspired evening so they fit the bill perfect. If you had any luck or found a good alternative let me know!

Mel

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