The UK events calendar each year (well, except for 2020: the year of COVID-19) is full of a huge and diverse range of events, from small family gatherings through to internal sports events and everything in between! Furniture hire and event equipment is, therefore, always in high demand, and there’s a whole host of specialist event hire companies who work with professional event planners up and down the country on a regular basis to help create these wonderful occasions.
And whilst furniture hire might not be on the top of everyone’s priority list, it’s worth looking at some reasons as to why these industry professionals hire furniture in the first place.
It’s temporary!
Think of a sports tournament, garden fête, air show or family celebration and these are all short-term temporary events, often lasting only a day or perhaps over a weekend or a week. Temporary furniture hire, therefore, is the obvious solution being as you really don’t want to be buying furniture and having all the cost, maintenance and storage of this furniture. The nature of temporary events means that, as the event planner, you only have a short amount of time each side of the event for set-up and dismantle, and you’ll want to be working with experts in this area, rather than worrying about it yourself.
Hassle-free
That leads us on to our next point — event furniture hire in London and across the UK is hassle-free! Event planners will be the first to tell you that the lead up to busy events is usually chaotic — a whole range of contractors arriving at site, phone calls and emails, logistics, promotions and so on, none of which ever go 100% to plan. There’s plenty of fire-fighting going on, all of which takes up valuable time, resources and effort, and so the last thing you want to be worrying about is whether your rental furniture is going to arrive on time, in the right place and in the right quantities. This is the same for a large event as it is a wedding. As the bride and groom, you want to be sure that your wedding furniture hire is going to be right!
On-trend
Let the furniture hire companies spend the money on up-to-date furniture for you! That’s another reason why you wouldn’t buy furniture, as trends and fashions do change in the industry over relatively short periods of time. Can you imagine having spent thousands of pounds on buying furniture, only for it to become redundant? The best furniture rental companies will invest huge sums of money into their furniture hire product ranges to provide their clients with the complete range from which they can choose, to best suit their specific event requirements.
Quantity & quality
There’s only one way that you’ll be able to find the furniture you want, in the quantities and quality you need for your event by hiring it. As you can imagine, the size of events differs wildly and so requirements are hugely different. Working with a reputable furniture hire company will ultimately save you time, money and effort, as you can make it your one-stop-shop for hire equipment. And during the chaotic lead-up to your event, how welcome it will be to have a single point of contact looking after you!
Experience
There’s no doubt that experience is key and is worth its weight in gold, especially when dealing with high profile, prestigious events. A wealth of knowledge and experience can only be built up over years, and many of the wonderful iconic and well-established events and wedding venues across London and other cities of the UK have very specific time slots and requirements for delivery and collection. The more quirky the venue, the more quirky these restrictions become! Work with an established furniture hire company that is able to be both reactive and proactive to these requirements and embrace these as part of the process, rather than letting them catch them out at the last minute, resulting in unwanted delays for you!
Whatever your event, rest assured that with a quick Google search, you’ll soon be able to find what you’re looking for, whether it’s tables and chairs, outdoor wedding furniture hire, limewash Chiavari chairs or anything else. After all, there’s plenty of reasons to do so!
