Tents and Events

We used Tents & Events for our wedding last summer, and were very happy with their services. At the last minute, we learned it would rain during our wedding weekend. Despite the short notice, Tents & Events was able to provide all the tents we needed (3 large) and delivered them on time despite the long distance. In addition, they were able to problem solve a solution to a slanted lawn while setting the tents up. We highly recommend them to anyone in need of tenting.

Party Rents & Tents was a great company to work with. I recently rented a 30×30 tent, tables, chairs, linens, and a dance floor for my wedding. They delivered on time and picked up on time. The crew was very careful and replaced divets created during set up of the tent and were very respectful. When they came to pick up the tent and other items, they were very thorough and cleaned up all debris and left the lawn/​yard as it was before they set up. Bob in the office was very flexible and very helpful! I highly recommend this team!

My husband and I found Tents and Events at the Seattle Wedding Show, where we received a 25% off discount for any rentals made by a certain date. Included on the voucher was also an invitation to attend an open house where some of the tents were set up and other rental items were set up as well. We knew we needed a large tent to seat 100 chairs for our outdoor ceremony in Kubota Garden, but didn’t quite know what size to get. When we got to the open house, we met with Kim who was immediately helpful and great to work with and suggested a tent size. It helped that they had been to the site before as well. They also had a caterer at the open house event and we went home with a bottle of wine! After explaining what I needed to Kim, she sent me a quote that very day with the discount and even offered to extend the discount later on if I needed anything else.
Also, for brides choosing to have a ceremony in a Seattle City Park and setting up very large tents, make sure you get a fire permit and have the rental company forward proof of insurance. Bob from T&E actually took care of this for me completely and applied my discount to this charge. (Everyone at T&E was helpful, but Bob especially was excellent! Work with him if you can.) When I needed last minute rentals, he was patient and understanding and very prompt with my requests.
As for the ceremony setup itself, we only had a 3 hour window to be in the park for the ceremony and T&E was actually there a little bit early, which was great. They started set up at 2, finished by 3 and we had our beautiful ceremony. By 5PM, they had broken down 100 chairs and a huge tent and were out so we didn’t incur any extra charges from Seattle Parks.
Overall, great experience with this company and I would use them for future events in a heart beat. It’s unfortunate previous brides have had a bad experience with them, but I never had a problem.

Tents & Events Party Rentals came very, very close to ruining our entire wedding. Please, DO NOT use them for your event. I would never want anyone else to experience the stress we dealt with during the weeks and days leading up to our wedding on 03÷17÷12.
We first contacted Tents & Events several months before our wedding after picking up a brochure and coupon at the Seattle Wedding Show. We received an initial quote for table linens, overlays, linen napkins, water goblets and delivery /​pickup. The price included the 25% «winter special» discount from the coupon. We then had a meeting at the showroom in Kent to look at a table mockup and discuss options. The owner, Dallas, seemed very eager to get our business and promised to do anything he could in terms of extra discounts, complimentary pickups, and superb customer service. We really liked Dallas and felt confident about working with a small business for our very important event.
Following the meeting, there were nothing but problems. We worked with Kim the office manager at Tents & Events, for weeks and weeks of back and forth in a frustrating attempt to get the plans for our event completed. Finally, only a few weeks before our wedding, we were beginning to feel frantic that our order had not been finalized. We called Tents & Events and talked to Dallas, at which point he apologized and gave us his personal cell phone number and insisted that we feel free to call him directly any time to get things finalized. Several days later we still had not received a final quote, so we again called Dallas on his cell phone. Again, he apologized and promised that we would receive a final invoice from Kim in the morning.
Two days later we received the final invoice from Kim and she had added an extra fee for Sunday pickup. We called Dallas to discuss this extra fee which he had promised to eliminate as a courtesy to us, but the voicemail was not returned so we called Kim directly. Kim was very rude and stated that «Dallas has no idea what’s going on» and refused to honor this additional discount. She stated that if we were not okay with the final cost she had sent that we were «welcome to take our business elsewhere.» Kim also mentioned that we had no right to be calling Dallas after hours on his cell phone. Following this conversation, Kim called me at work threatening to cancel the entire order. Taken off guard, I felt very attacked and in a panicked effort to get my order taken care of (we were now less than two weeks away from the wedding!) I paid the entire amount of the invoice.
A day before our rentals were schedule to be delivered, Kim from Tents & Events emailed our wedding coordinator a message stating «We are no longer able to complete your order. Good luck and here is a list of other local vendors.» I received this news at my wedding rehearsal and needless to say was horrified. We called every phone number we had for Tents & Events about 50 times that day trying to get more of an explanation, and our wedding coordinator even went to their showroom but the doors were closed and no calls were answered or returned.
I had spent months working out the exact details of my linen colors and glassware details, and now less than 48 hours before my wedding I had to start from scratch. My wedding was on St. Patrick’s Day and I needed to find an abundance of Kelly green linens from another company… but of course no one had them available with such short notice. Luckily at the last second another company was able to come through with enough Kelly green linens to complete the look and feel of our wedding, but this additional stress just a day before the biggest event of our lives was horribly devastating. In addition, Tents & Events did not refund even one cent of the money we had pre-​paid them.
We were appalled and extremely disappointed in Tents & Events contradictory messages and actions, severe lack of customer service, and poor communication. We were misled, taken advantage of, and cheated out of almost $ 1,000. Although our interactions were filled with promises of discounts and extra attention, in the end we received nothing except a lot of stress and an order canceled at the last minute with no refund. We were tricked and scammed by Tents & Events and hope that this review serves as a warning to anyone out there planning an event. Stay away!

Tents and Events recently did my wedding and they were flat out amazing!
First off they came out to the property at least 2 times in the months leading up to the wedding just to go over what we wanted as the plans evolved. THey were extremely flexible giving us options to change/​improve right up to the last day. We thought we wanted the tent up a week before the wedding but then last moment we wanted it up two days before, no problem! Dallas, the owner, and Sheryl were both amazing. They were on the property for both days of setting up making sure that we were happy and that the layout was perfect. I was absolutely amazed when we decided not to use their lighting, Sheryl told us that they would be happy to install the lights that we had! At one point we decided that we wanted couches. Dallas said that they did not have them but that he would be happy to go out and buy some so we were able to have couches. They were never pushy nor did I ever feel like they were trying to up sell me.
Now if you are still reading you are probably thinking, this has got to be way more expensive then other companies who do not provide so much. Not true! They are in many cases cheaper then their competitors and definitely more flexible.
Here is my advise. Give them a call as there is in fact not very much information online and let them come out and go through what they have to offer. The earlier you reserve them the better. (In response to negative comment listed below, I wonder if she had tried to reserve them last minute when they had other events going on.)
They were amazing and I will use them for any other event I do in the area.

The owner Dallas was very helpful, he made sure our event went off perfect, I would recommend this company to anyone.
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I had an order for a party this coming Saturday with invoices, confirmation and everything, was just waiting to give my credit card information. I spoke to Kim at 9 am this morning, 3 days before my event, and she had canceled my entire order. She was very rude and unprofessional and gave no apology whatsoever. Luckily I was able to find another company last minute, but I really wouldn’t recommend using this company.

Our wedding day-​of-​coordinator recommended using Tents & Events for our chair rentals for the wedding, I was amazed at how inexpensive they were — especially on the delivery cost! Compared to other rental companies who charge overtime for Saturday deliveries (sometimes up to $ 200), Tents and Events charged a $ 50 flat delivery fee. They arrived at the park on time, there were no issues with the take down after the wedding.
The major con of course is their lack of website or any real web presence review-​wise, I felt a little bit like I was taking a shot in the dark, but everything ran smoothly!