Why Winter Park orders look different
Winter Park is where our formal setups go. The lakefront homes on the Winter Park Chain of Lakes — Lake Virginia, Lake Osceola, Lake Maitland, Lake Mizell — and the historic streets off Interlachen Avenue host backyard weddings, engagement parties and milestone birthdays that call for a 20×40 high peak tent, 60-inch rounds dressed in floor-length linens, padded resin chairs instead of plastic folding chairs, and a dark walnut dance floor. It is the one city where we get asked for the 40×40 more than the 20×20.
We are about 22 road miles away in Apopka, and we say that plainly because the delivery fee reflects it: our $59 base covers the first 15 miles and the rest is $4 a mile, so a central Winter Park address prices around $85 for the whole order, shown at checkout before you pay. Nobody in Winter Park has ever booked us because we were the closest company. They book us because every price is on the site, the crew is the same three people every time, and the tent is up before the florist arrives.
Setting up on lakefront and terrace properties
Winter Park lawns are irrigated and immaculate, and the terraces are brick or pavers. Our crew uses drop cloths under every frame leg, weighted footings on hardscape so nothing is drilled or staked through pavers, and extra ratchet lines on any tent facing open water — the afternoon breeze coming off the lakes is real, and a tent that is fine at ten in the morning can be working hard by four. Gated communities off Via Tuscany and the Isle of Sicily area are routine; put the gate code or guardhouse instructions in your order notes so the crew never has to call you at 7 a.m.
Permits in Winter Park
A 20×40 is 800 square feet, which is under Florida’s 900-square-foot exemption from the Fire Prevention Code — no fire review for a typical backyard wedding tent. Larger tents, or any tent where a caterer will be cooking underneath, go through the City of Winter Park’s tent permit process, which the Building Department runs for the Fire Department under NFPA 1 Chapter 25; the city’s own form flags butane appliances as prohibited under a tent. We prepare the form and the flame-resistance documentation and build the review time into your delivery date. Winter Park addresses outside the city limits fall under Orange County instead, where tents over 901 square feet get a Fire Marshal review.
Where we set up
Private homes are most of it, but we also deliver to Dinky Dock Park on Lake Virginia, Shady Park, and the Azalea Lane Recreation Center when families reserve them through the city. Central Park on Park Avenue is city-events-only; private parties there go through the city’s special-event process, and we are glad to set up inside an approved window with a certificate of insurance.
What to book for a Winter Park wedding of 80–100
A 20×40 high peak tent, ten 60-inch rounds with floor-length linens, eighty padded resin chairs, two 8-foot banquet tables for the bar and gifts, and a 16×16 dark walnut dance floor. Add tent lighting for evening receptions. Every one of those prices is on this page and in the catalog; the only number that changes with your address is delivery.