It’s a Chapel

When the client's only daughter says she wants to be married at home on the family ranch, then it's up to the event team to bring the wedding home, right down to the chapel.

In May, the Classic Party Rentals/Ducky-Bob's team in Dallas created 26,102 square feet of tented space — including ceremony area, reception/dining area, restroom facilities, catering area, valet parking, children's area, greenroom for entertainment and vendor office — on a sprawling Oklahoma ranch some 400 miles from the Classic office. A 12-person crew stayed on-site during the entire three-week job.

To make the most of the waterside views for the 330 guests, the event team decided against one expansive tent for the reception/dining area, turning instead to 8,700 square feet of tenting on three levels — a foyer leading up a few steps to the main dining area and then up to the band/dance floor. Glass walls and a wraparound patio allowed guests to take in the view.

The highlight of the installation was the chapel: a 50-by-147-foot structure complete with steeple, stained glass windows, wooden beams, wood-paneled floor and rows of wooden pews. To help the remodeling project at their local church, the bride and groom donated the steeple and pews to the church after their wedding.

The chapel was so beautiful that the local building inspectors mistook it for the unpermitted construction of an actual church. While clearing up confusion set the installation back one day, “We were pleased we were creating an authentic chapel, just as the bride requested,” a Classic spokeswoman says.

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