Colonial Event Rental

I hired Colonial Events to provide the tent, dance floor, stage and lighting for my wedding. I was beyond disappointed in their performance.

I would urge all future brides to look elsewhere.

I would consider the job they did embarrassing. The number of mistakes they made was truly astounding.

First, the tent was set up incorrectly. The dance floor and stage were setup too centered so that the head table was on the wrong side. The plans were clear, we emailed back and forth about the floor plan (which was ultimately created by Colonial) probably 20 times. This was upsetting.

Colonial told me it was necessary to pay a lot of money for a valence and pole drapes so that you couldn't see the ugly part of where the tent connected to the poles. The valence didn't even make it around the entire perimeter of the tent. It was short about 25%. And where it was, it was setup so messy that it was twisted and tucked in completely defeating its purpose. The pole drapes weren't drapes but just fabric tied tightly around the poles. I had emailed a picture from Colonial's own website of how I want the pole drapes to look (how I assumed their pole drapes looked since it was a picture from their event)...this was not it and this was extremely ugly.

I paid for spot lighting, none of which was setup.

I paid for 2 chandeliers that were never setup.

I finally got reimbursed for the missing items, but it was still extremely upsetting.

My parents hosted a brunch at their house the following day and rented some chairs from Colonial. Over half of the chairs were beat up so badly and had torn seats that my Mom didn't even use them. She was too embarrassed they were in such bad condition.

Under no circumstance would I ever recommend using Colonial for any event needs. Its not just big items like tents they can't handle, but clearly renting 10 chairs in decent quality...