Tipi Hire in Shropshire

Kåta Chiefs is a family-owned giant tipi event company based in the heart of the West Midlands and offer bespoke and luxurious tipis for weddings, parties and all other events. They have some great insights from their years in the business so read on for advice on what to check when choosing a similar provider for your event.

What do you need to know from an organiser in order to provide a comprehensive quote?

In the first instance, we ideally need to know as much as possible about the event. The most important details are the number of guests, the date of the event and the location of the event. We can then work out an estimate based on this information. This is to give the customer a good idea of expense and offer suggestions for their event. In order to provide a bespoke comprehensive quote, we need to carry out a site visit where we can view the site and discuss the event in more detail. From this site visit, we can use our expertise and experience to put together a suitable tipi package.

What advice would you give to a customer looking to hire a provider in your area of work?

If you are hiring out any sort of tent from tipi to marquees it is essential that somebody comes out for a site visit before accepting any type of booking. From experience, we know that until we have the viewed the venue we cannot access its suitability. During a site visit we make sure the site is big enough, no hazards such as overhanging wires, is on good ground and we assess access for the build so there is no surprise when we build the tipis.
We also strongly recommend that you go out and visit the supplier at an open day and if not at one of their events they are putting up tipis for. This gives you an opportunity to look at their equipment and meet them.
One last recommendation is to have a look at their social media presence. If they are regularly posting about new events they are doing you know that they are regularly putting up tipis and therefore have the experience to help you have a fantastic event.

Please tell us a little bit about how and why you started the business.

We set up Kåtachiefs after experiencing our first tipi event. After growing up around the marquee industry we were completely blown away the first time we stepped inside a tipi and knew this was something special. There is a magical environment inside a tipi that we believe you don't get with any other structure. Working in the event's industry is a joy and a privilege knowing that our tipis are creating events our customers will cherish for a lifetime. It is a great pleasure to return and take down the tipis and hearing the great experiences they have. This has formed our simple policy that every event, no matter how big or how small, deserves the same service – that every event should be tailored to meet that customer’s needs – to treat every event as if it is our own.

Please tell us about a booking you've had through Add to Event, how did it go? Would you recommend us to others?

This platform has provided us with some great events working with some fabulous customers. It is very difficult to pick just one as every event is unique and special. Through Add to Event, we have put tipis up for festival style weddings where the bride and groom arrived in a helicopter before climbing over an inflatable obstacle course. We have put tipis up for more traditional weddings at people homes and we have been privileged to do our part in hosting some fantastic tipi parties. Perhaps the most memorable tipi party we have done through Add to Event was in a small back garden in the middle of a city that was just big enough for the tipi to fit. It was a challenge setting it up, but coming back on the Monday to take down and hearing just how great the event was made it all worth well.
One of the best things about the Add to Event system is the ability to pass on the platform to potential customers that we are already fully booked for. It is great to know that even if we don't have availability we can help somebody find a great business that does.