VIP & Hospitality
Lighting can help shape the atmosphere inside festival hospitality structures while keeping guest areas practical into the evening.
Festival Lighting Hire
Practical lighting for festival marquees and temporary spaces
Good lighting keeps temporary festival spaces usable after daylight fades and helps create the right environment for guests, staff and event teams.
We can coordinate lighting with your festival marquee hire, whether the structure is being used for hospitality, a bar, staff welfare, catering or backstage operations.
Lighting by Festival Area
Plan the lighting around what happens inside the structure
Festival Bars
Festival bar areas can require lighting for service counters, staff working areas and the surrounding guest space.
Staff Welfare
Practical lighting keeps staff welfare marquees usable for breaks, meals and briefings during evening operations.
Backstage & Production
Working light can support backstage and production structures used by technical teams, crew and event management.
Planning Marquee Lighting
Start with the purpose of the space and its operating hours
A structure used mainly during daylight may have very different lighting requirements from a bar, hospitality marquee or production space that remains active late into the evening.
The internal layout matters too. Tables, service counters, working areas and circulation routes can all influence where useful lighting is required.
Lighting is therefore best considered alongside the marquee layout rather than after the structure has already been planned.
Guest Spaces & Working Areas
Different festival spaces need different approaches to lighting
Guest-facing structures may use lighting to create a welcoming environment as well as provide visibility, while operational spaces generally place more emphasis on practical working light.
Lighting can be coordinated with festival furniture, festival flooring and festival heating as part of the complete temporary setup.
Festival Lighting Planning
Four details that help define the requirement
Structure Use
Tell us whether the marquee is for hospitality, bars, staff, catering, production or another festival function.
Operating Hours
Evening and overnight use will generally make lighting a more important part of the temporary setup.
Internal Layout
Furniture, counters, workstations and circulation routes help determine where useful illumination is needed.
Overall Setup
Consider lighting together with flooring, furniture, heating and other equipment planned for the structure.
Lighting for Catering & Operations
Keep practical festival spaces usable when natural light disappears
Catering, staff and production teams may continue working long after public-facing activity changes, making suitable lighting particularly important in operational structures.
For festival catering areas, lighting should be considered alongside the equipment and working layout inside the structure.
Where catering equipment is also required, see our festival catering equipment service.
Planning Festival Lighting Hire
What we need to know
- 01Festival location
- 02Event dates & operating hours
- 03Structure type & dimensions
- 04How each space will be used
- 05Internal furniture & equipment
- 06Other services required
Frequently Asked Questions
Festival lighting hire FAQs
Can you provide lighting with a festival marquee?
Yes. Lighting can be considered alongside the structure and the way the temporary space will be used.
Which festival structures can have lighting?
Lighting can be considered for hospitality, bars, catering, staff welfare, backstage, production and other suitable temporary structures.
Can you provide lighting for VIP hospitality marquees?
Yes. Lighting can help make hospitality spaces practical after dark while contributing to the atmosphere inside the structure.
Can festival bar marquees be lit?
Yes. Lighting can be planned around service counters, staff working areas and guest spaces within festival bar structures.
Can lighting be provided for staff welfare areas?
Yes. Staff welfare structures used during evening operations can include practical internal lighting.
Can you light backstage and production marquees?
Yes. Lighting can support crew, technical teams, production staff and event management working inside temporary backstage structures.
Can lighting be coordinated with furniture and flooring?
Yes. Considering the services together helps ensure the lighting works with the final internal layout.
Can you provide lighting across several festival structures?
Yes. Lighting requirements can be coordinated across multiple guest-facing and operational structures at the same festival.
When should festival lighting be planned?
It is useful to consider lighting while the structure and internal layout are being planned, particularly for spaces that will operate after dark.
What information do you need for a lighting quotation?
Send us the festival location, dates, operating hours, structure types and sizes, how each area will be used and any furniture or equipment planned inside.
Festival Lighting Hire
Need lighting for your festival structures?
Tell us which structures need lighting, their approximate sizes, operating hours and how each space will be used.