Tent weddings are beautiful. They are your own precious creation of custom rented pieces, from chairs to their covers to the ribbons tying them, from round or rectangular tables piled high with linens and flowers and cutlery, from the dance floor to the band to the cake table to the caterers. All perfectly accented by the scenic outdoors peeking through the flaps of a large white tent.
Except for the one element you can't control with a tent wedding: the weather.
Chairs and the covers can sink into the soggy ground even if the April showers stopped the day before. Table linens will flip over in the wind, candle flames flickering out at the slightest breeze. Guests could be soaked, sunburned, or windblown, all at the whim of the weather gods. No bride, you would think, would want to have a wedding so susceptible to these whimsical entities.
And yet...
As high as the risk is for such a wedding, the payoff is much higher. Tent weddings are remembered as fantasies come to life, as one night where love and unity seem the children of nature herself. What could be more perfect than a tented haven where all of your closest friends and family members are gathered? Where you look into the eyes of your beloved, surrounded by the glory of nature and the rented pieces you assembled to accent it, and say "I do"? How can it not be worth the risk, when the reward is a perfect memory?
Because when it comes to whimsy, a soon-to-be bride can surpass even the nature gods in hope and unpredictability.
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