Someone searching for websites for marquee hire in Dublin has a garden, a date and a worry. A wedding at the family home for a hundred and twenty. A fortieth in a back garden in Castleknock. A GAA club fundraiser on the pitch. A wake, needed by Thursday. They want to know what size they need, whether it will fit, what comes with it, roughly what it costs, and whether you are free that weekend. A site that lets them work out the first three themselves, and send you the rest in one form, gets the site visit. A site that says “call for a quote” gets skipped by people who do not yet know what to ask.
We build the site and the Google listing, make the enquiry arrive ready for a visit, and send the numbers each month. You put the tents up.
Sizes people can picture
The capacity chart is the most read thing on a marquee site, so it should be the easiest to read. For each size you carry: the footprint, how many it seats at round tables, how many at long tables, how many standing with a bar, and what it looks like dressed, in a photo from a real job. Customers do not think in metres. They think “a hundred and twenty for dinner and a band”, so the chart has to translate.
Photograph the tents in use: lined and lit for a wedding with the tables set, open-sided for a summer party, a clear-span frame on a club pitch in daylight, and the same tent at night with the lights on.
Everything that is not the tent
A marquee on its own is half the job and customers know it, so the page lists the rest: flooring and carpet, lining and ceiling drapes, lighting, heating for the shoulder months, tables and chairs, the dance floor, a bar, a catering tent, generators and toilets, and the walkway from the house. Say what is included in your packages and what is priced separately, and say what the customer sources themselves. If you work regularly with caterers or an event planner, say so; it gives a nervous couple one less thing to coordinate.
The enquiry that saves a wasted site visit
Every marquee quote needs a visit, but the visit should not be the first time you learn the garden is on a slope. The enquiry form asks for the date, the event, the numbers, the address or Eircode, the ground, the access for a van, power and water, and anything else they think they need. It lands in your email and on your WhatsApp, and the WhatsApp button beside it lets them send a photo of the space. You arrive with a size in mind and a price in your head.
From-prices belong on the page too, for the bare tent and for the dressed packages, so the people whose budget was a gazebo find out before you drive to Kildare. The rest of what belongs on a trade’s page is in what a small business website should include.
Wind, rain and the week before
Anyone planning an event in a garden in Ireland is thinking about weather, and the marquee company that talks about it plainly is the one they trust. Say what your marquees are rated for, when you would postpone or refuse to erect, how you anchor on hard standing, and what heating does for an April evening. Say when you set up and take down, and what the house lives with in between. Say you carry public liability insurance and offer the certificate on request, because venues, clubs and councils will ask.
Summer weddings, Christmas marquees and the quiet of February
Garden weddings are booked a year out and happen from May to September, with Saturdays going first. Summer parties and Communions fill the weekends around them. Pubs and restaurants want a covered area for the Christmas run, some from October to January. Funerals and wakes arrive with a day’s notice at any time of year, and a short notice page with a call button at the top is found by the family member searching at the kitchen table.
A line at the top saying which weekends are gone, changed by you from your phone, saves a dozen calls a week in the spring.
What to hand over
Your size chart with capacities, photos of each tent dressed at real events in daylight and at night, your packages and from-prices, the counties you cover, your set up and take down timings, your weather policy and insurance position in your own words, and ten minutes on the phone or in the yard. We set up the Google Business Profile for the areas you serve; the guide to getting onto Google Maps explains what that involves.
Plan, price and outside Dublin
Essentials, at €499 to set up and €50 a month, is enough for most marquee companies: the site, the listing, the enquiry form and the monthly numbers. Complete, at €1,499 and €100 a month, adds card deposits, business email for the quotes and the chat box. The pricing page has the full comparison. If your yard is outside Dublin the first chat is a phone call and the rest works the same way.