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How to create your own outdoor festival
August 31, 2021Becka from one of Borrow my Garden’s fabulous, outside event suppliers, Tentshare, gives us help and advice about how to create your own outdoor festival. Thanks, Becka!
Missing that festival vibe?
Are you missing that festival vibe in 2021? It’s been hard to know whether to attend the big outdoor festivals. Perhaps creating your own festival for friends and family may offer a safer but just as fabulous, feel-good festival buzz.
Preparation list
Follow this preparation list and you will soon be partying with friends and family festival style!
- Make the decision, then go for it! Once you’ve decided to host your own festival, the excitement will build. Choose your date and follow the next steps below.
- Send out ‘save the date’ invitations. Once you’ve worked out who you want to come to your festival, it’s important to get that date booked in their diaries.
- Find a great location. You may be fortunate enough to have a big garden suitable for hosting your festival. If not, there are plenty of open spaces to choose from here at Borrow my Garden.
- Book your tents with Tentshare. Tell us how many people you’re expecting to sleepover at your festival and we will provide the tents. We can also bring you beds, sleeping bags and chairs.
- Rent or borrow some decent outdoor speakers and a music system. Perhaps you or your friends are musicians who can and play instruments for you all to sing around the campfire.
Now the fun begins
Now you’ve done all the hard work of creating your own festival, the real festival fun can begin. You can go as full-on ‘festival’ as you like.
Name
What are you going to name your festival? Try using your name or some variation, and then add ‘fest’ to the end. I love ‘Bexfest’ because my name’s Becka! What would yours be?
Create your own festival theme
Maybe you would like to make your festival a bit ‘extra’ (you might as well) and create a theme. Are you going to go fifties fun or nineties rave? Perhaps just a ‘wild’ theme or ‘glam’? Pick a theme to help your festival have a focus.
Many of the big Summer festivals have themes and dressing up, such as Shambala. Shambala has a fancy dress theme each year and a parade through the whole of the festival grounds on Saturday night. It’s quite a spectacle.
Outfits
Talking of themes, don’t forget your outfits. Always do costumes 100% or not at all. That’s the festival mantra. Fulfil your inner fantasy with imagination and style. To keep prices down and do the right thing for the environment, hit the local charity shops to find some show-stopping costumes.
Music
It’s not absolutely necessary to book a live act these days; an entire digital music catalogue is at your fingertips. To mix it up, you could invite friends to create a 20-minute playlist each that they get to play as resident DJs.
Get creative
So now you’ve considered all the points made in this blog about how to create your own festival, all there is left to do is PARTY!
- Have fun in the great outdoors and don’t forget Tentshare is on hand to provide all your outside accommodation needs. We look forward to helping you make your festival dreams come true!
Food
So now you’ve considered all the points made in this blog about how to create your own festival, all there is left to do is PARTY!
- Have fun in the great outdoors and don’t forget Tentshare is on hand to provide all your outside accommodation needs. We look forward to helping you make your festival dreams come true!
Tentshare is on hand
So now you’ve considered all the points made in this blog about how to create your own festival, all there is left to do is PARTY!
- Have fun in the great outdoors and don’t forget Tentshare is on hand to provide all your outside accommodation needs. We look forward to helping you make your festival dreams come true!
