A Long Island tent rental gallery, sorted by the kind of event
This Long Island tent rental gallery holds 196 photographs from our own library, sorted into the six kinds of work we are asked to do. Pick a set and the grid below it changes. Click any photograph to open it full screen, then move through that whole set with the arrow keys.
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Photographs are the honest part of this business
A tent looks simple in a picture and that is the problem with picking one from a picture. What you can genuinely learn from these photographs is shape: how high the roof goes, whether poles land in the middle of the floor, what the light does through a white top against a clear one, how a structure sits on a lawn compared with a parking lot. Those are real decisions and a photograph settles them faster than a paragraph does.
What you cannot see is the half of the job that decides whether the day works. The site walk that happened weeks earlier. The ground under the floor and what it took to level it. Anchoring, which is stakes on a lawn and several tons of ballast on hardscape. A load-in scheduled around a caterer, a band and a florist who all want the same driveway. The flooring, lighting, seating and bars in most of these frames are ours as well, out of the same warehouse on the same truck, and you can see the range of that on party equipment rentals.
Five ways in
Browse by the kind of event
Each set is a different kind of job with different constraints, so they are worth looking at separately. Pick one and both the grid and the full screen viewer switch to that set.
Weddings, 45 photographs
Sailcloth tops, upgraded finishes and backyard installs, almost all of them on private property rather than a venue. Most of these lawns had never held a tent before, which is the normal starting point for a wedding at home. The swept white roofs are our sailcloth tents, the ones people usually have in mind when they picture a tented reception. The rest is what gets added around the tent once the structure is settled: flooring, lighting, seating and bars. Wedding rentals covers how the whole order is planned.
Corporate and branded events, 17 photographs
Company events on company property: branded tents, product launches, employee days and hospitality builds. The thing to look at in this set is the ground. Corporate sites are parking lots, plazas and lawns beside a building, so most of these tents are ballasted rather than staked, and the load-in had to happen around a working business. Corporate tent rentals goes through how that gets scheduled.
Festivals and large events, 37 photographs
Public and large-scale work: clearspan structures, engineered track systems and the big graduation builds that go up on school fields every June. These are the tents with no interior poles, which is the reason they get chosen. A crowd needs a clear floor, and a stage, a bar or a vendor row cannot be planned around a pole in the middle of the room. Festival tent rentals covers multi-day builds and phased load-in.
Production and relief, 25 photographs
Two kinds of work that look alike in a photograph and are booked for opposite reasons. One is film and television: base camp, crew catering, equipment cover, production tent rentals on location. The other is emergency shelter and disaster relief tent rentals, where the same structures stand for weeks instead of a weekend. The rooftop and terrace installs are here too, because they share the hard problem: no ground to anchor into. That is the subject of rooftop tent rentals.
Tent styles up close, 56 photographs
The same five tent families photographed for what they are rather than what was happening underneath them: clear tops, high peaks, low profile Levo clearspans and classic rope and pole. Useful if you are still deciding what shape you want over your guests, because the roof line is the one decision a photograph actually settles. Every family we own is explained on tent rentals.
Private events, 16 photographs
Milestone birthdays, anniversaries, quinceaneras and backyard parties, almost all of them on private property rather than at a venue. Several of these are built over a pool or around one, which is its own problem to solve before a single table goes in. A lot of them run well past dark, which is where the lighting stops being decoration and starts being the room. The structures are mostly our clear top tents and our sailcloth tents; what changes between one of these and the next is the flooring, the lighting and the furniture.
Private events
A private party, on the ground
Still photographs are good at the structure and bad at the scale of it. This is a private install filmed on the property, which gives you the height of the room and the way it reads once the lighting is on.
Family owned on Long Island since 1975, more than 1,000 tents on our own racks in Holtsville, and our own crew from the first walk of the property through to the strike.
Off camera
Three things every one of these photographs has behind it
A site walk, first
Somebody stood on that ground before anything was quoted. Slope, trees, the septic field, where a truck can reach and where it cannot, what the surface will take for anchoring. On the East End that walk usually ends up being about wind off open water. On the North Fork in spring it ends up being about soft ground.
Our own tents, our own crew
TGIF has grown from two tents in 1975 to more than 1,000, and every structure in this gallery came off our own racks in Holtsville and was put up by our own installers. Nothing here was subcontracted out on the day, which is the only reason a schedule holds when the weather moves.
An order, not a tent
Very few of these were a tent alone. Look at the floors, the lighting, the tables and the bars in the frame. Most of it went out on the same truck, which is what keeps a build day from turning into five separate deliveries competing for one driveway.
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What the people in these photographs said afterward
"I was looking for an elegant setup for my event, and TGIF knocked it out of the park. Their sailcloth tent looked incredible, and the final result exceeded my expectations."
"TGIF handled my event in the Hamptons, and I needed everything to look elegant without becoming too expensive. They delivered exactly what I was looking for."
"I had a corporate event with TGIF, and I still can't get over how easy they made everything. Every detail needed to be perfect, and somehow the result was even better than perfect."
Send us the one you keep going back to
If a photograph here is close to what you have in mind, that is the fastest brief you can give us. Tell us which set it came from, roughly how many people you are expecting and where the event is, and we will tell you what that build would take on your property.