Tent and Catering Service in Chandigarh

Our Tent and Catering Service in Detail

Most people booking a tent are booking two things at once — the structure and the food. Handling both from one place is the whole point: the kitchen knows how far it is from the serving counters, and the tent team knows where the buffet has to stand. When those are two different contractors, that gap is where the evening goes wrong.

We work out of Sector 5, Panchkula, and have been covering weddings across the Tricity since 2012 — first with cameras, now with the tent and kitchen as well.

What We Set Up

Tent and Structure

• Tent and shamiana — German hangar, traditional shamiana, or open frame with side walls
• Stage and mandap — built to the size of your function, not a fixed set
• Seating — chairs, sofa sets, round tables, VIP seating
• Lighting — entrance, pathway, stage wash and the string work overhead
• Flooring and carpet — matters most on ground that is not level
• Fans, coolers or heaters — by season, and not an extra we forget in December
• Power backup — generator sized to the load, not to the lowest quote

Catering

• Pure vegetarian, or vegetarian and non-vegetarian counters kept separate
• Live counters — chaat, tandoor, pasta, dosa, and the sweets counter
• Buffet, or plated service for a sit-down function
• Punjabi, North Indian, Chinese and continental — menu decided with you, not handed to you
• Full crew: cooks, servers, cleaning, and someone who stays till the last plate is cleared

Pricing

Three things decide the number: how many people, what is on the menu, and how much has to be built at the venue. A simple shamiana for 100 and a built stage with full lighting for 800 are different jobs, and the price says so. Tell us those three and you get an itemised quote, in writing, before anything is booked.

How a Booking Works

Before You Book — A Short Checklist

• ✔ Confirm the ground size, and whether any part of it is uneven
• ✔ Check the entry width — a truck has to get in with the frame
• ✔ Ask where the power point is, and whether it can take the load
• ✔ Fix the guest count within a range, not an exact number
• ✔ Ask what happens if the count rises on the day
• ✔ Get the quote itemised, in writing
• ✔ Confirm setup and removal timings before paying anything

Why Families Book Both From One Place

• One person answers for the evening. If the food is late or a light fails, there is nobody to point at
• The kitchen is placed with the tent, not after it. Serving distance is decided on the layout, not on the day
• One generator, sized once. Lighting, kitchen and sound are added up together instead of each contractor assuming the other arranged power
• The guest count is told once. Two contractors means telling it twice, and one of them forgetting
• One itemised quote. You see the whole cost in one place instead of adding two estimates and hoping they cover everything
• Setup a day early, clearing included. Both are in the quote, so neither turns into an argument
• No travel charge inside the Tricity. Chandigarh, Panchkula and Mohali are one working area for us
• The photographer already knows the layout. If you book the photography too, the lighting is placed for the camera as well as the eye

One Team, or Two Contractors?

Most families book the tent from one place and the food from another. It works, and sometimes it is cheaper. Here is the honest difference.

What a Booking Actually Looks Like

A home wedding, around 250 guests

Shamiana over the courtyard, a small stage, string lighting, round tables for eighty at a time with two sittings, a vegetarian buffet and one live chaat counter. Tent up the previous afternoon, kitchen on site from the morning. The thing that decides this job is the entry width — if the truck cannot get in, the frame gets carried, and that changes the timing for everything after it.

A banquet-hall function, around 500 guests

No tent needed, so it is catering only: vegetarian and non-vegetarian counters kept separate, a tandoor counter, and the sweets counter at the far end so its queue does not block the buffet. Here the work is in the service crew count, not the structure.

A village function, around 800 guests

Open ground, so everything is built: hangar, flooring over uneven earth, full lighting, generator, and a field kitchen. This is the kind of job where the site visit matters most, because the ground decides half the plan.

Who You Are Booking

Sandeep Photography & Events, working out of SCO 88, Sector 5, Panchkula since 2012. We have covered over 500 weddings across Chandigarh, Panchkula and Mohali on the photography side, and the tent and catering work runs from the same office and the same phone number. One point of contact from the first quote to the clearing after.

Our photography work carries a 4.9 rating from 148+ Google reviews — you can read what those clients wrote. Tent and catering is our newer line, so it does not have its own review history yet. We would rather say that than borrow the photography reviews and present them as something they are not.

More about the studio on the about page, the wedding work in the portfolio, and the photography services on Our Services. For what the law expects from a food business, see FSSAI; Chandigarh's civic pages are at chandigarh.gov.in.

At a Glance