So as I mentioned previously Mr Rigg and I went down south to kick-start our wedding planning.  We went to the Beautiful World Tents open day in Horsham, West Sussex.  Beautiful World Tents provide a gorgeous range of big and small tipis for wedding receptions and events.

Ever since I first saw images of these tents a couple of years ago when researching for the Directory, I fell in love with them.  Now that Mr Rigg and I are starting to think about our own wedding, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to go and view these tents.

Sadly, the day we went was some of the worst weather ever – a howling wind that rattled the poles holding the tipis up and horizontal rain.  In all their time setting up the giant tipis,  they had never seen weather so bad.  The day was pretty much cancelled as it was too dangerous to go inside the tipis.

Having travelled all the way from Cheshire, Mr Rigg and I weren’t about to leave without seeing as much as we could of the tents and speaking to Jo, the director, about all the different options and costs.

As if by some miracle, just before we left the wind died down and the rain stopped, the sun came out and we were able to go into the full set-up of tipis and get a proper look and feel for them.

On the way home we also stopped off in Berkshire to see The Stunning Tents Company, who offer the same giant tipis and are the original importers of these stunning tents, which come from Sweden.

I left the south feeling totally wowed by the giant tipis and confident that they would make a stunning wedding reception venue.

Images from top: The Stunning Tents Company; Beautiful World Tents; The Natural Wedding Company