Tent Projection Mapping for Wedding Tents and Event Structures

A white tent is a blank page. Hire it for the weekend and it holds tables, a dance floor and a few hundred guests, but on its own it says nothing about the couple, the brand or the night.

We turn tents and marquees into scenes for weddings, galas, festivals and brand events. If your event lives under canvas, send us the tent size and your date.

Tent projection mapping fits content to the fabric overhead and around the guests, so the structure itself changes with the evening. Because projection mapping works with any surface, you can turn a plain white tent into a forest, a cityscape or an abstract art installation. Under a white canopy, even a DJ booth can become a jungle oasis.

The defining challenge is light. A tent is a light structure by design, and daylight passes straight through it. The space must be dark enough for projection, so blackout tents work best, and direct sunlight washes out the image. For outdoor weddings, covered patios, tents or dusk-to-dark settings yield the best results.

• Surface planning. Tent fabric pulls, peaks and curves. Projection mapping can wrap around irregular surfaces such as scaffolding and tents, so content follows the roofline instead of fighting it.
• Rigging and height. In a tent, we check the ceiling height first, because projectors need clearance for safe mounting. Rigging points like truss or ceiling mounts must be approved by the venue, or in this case by the tent provider.
• Lenses for tight spaces. High ceilings are ideal, but we can work with low ceilings using short-throw lenses.
• Light and wind. For immersive projection outdoors, we require a fully enclosed structure like a tent or clear-span pavilion to block ambient light and wind.
• Content for the evening. Our animation and visual storytelling team builds scenes for each part of the night, from the first dance to the last song.

Wedding tents. The roof becomes the centerpiece: a sky that darkens as dinner ends, a garden that blooms for the first dance, or the couple's own colors for the party. Ballroom weddings have their own page on ballroom projection mapping.

Festival and concert tents. We can project onto almost any non-porous surface, including tents, scaffolding and custom-built sets. At concerts and festivals, we also project onto stage backdrops, inflatables and custom-built scrims and truss structures.

Brand marquees. A branded tent at a race, a fair or a launch can carry the campaign across every wall and the roof, for a few hours or a few days. One-night and short-run builds are covered by temporary and event projection.

For the roof alone, see ceiling projection mapping. For full surround, see 360 projection mapping, and for open-air shows, outdoor projection mapping. Self-supporting structures without poles are covered by dome projection.

None of our published projects is a tent show. The closest is an event we built with a tent company.

• Big Sur private dome event, California. Zephyr Tents and Pacific Domes hired us to provide dome and projection services for a private birthday party in Big Sur. We set up three 30ft geodesic domes and handled everything from building the venue to creating content and VJing the night.

See all our projects.

Send us the tent size and type, the provider, your guest count and your date. We will come back with a projector layout, a rigging plan to share with the tent company and a content plan for the evening. To see everything we do, visit our projection mapping services page, or talk to our team.