Event Planning Resources & Guides
Houston event planning guides, checklists, and how-tos from the ACME team — free, practical, and written from decades of real events.
Plan Smarter Before You Rent Anything
Great events are planned long before the first truck arrives. This resource hub collects the guides, checklists, and planning articles our team shares most often with Houston hosts, planners, and facility managers — the same advice we have been giving over the phone since 1997. Whether you are sizing a tent for a backyard wedding, lighting a corporate dinner, or building a disaster preparedness plan for your business, start here.
Every guide is written for the realities of planning events in Houston and Southeast Texas: the heat, the pop-up storms, the venues that are really just promising patches of grass. And when a guide raises a question about your specific event, our specialists are a phone call away at 713-729-2424, or you can request a quote and we will talk through the details together.
Event Planning Guides
Work out how much tent your guest count, seating style, and extras actually need.
Frame, marquis, structure, clear top, or Keder track? A plain-English comparison of every tent style we carry and when each one fits.
A step-by-step rental checklist that keeps outdoor events on schedule and on budget.
The permits and approvals that may apply to outdoor events in the Houston area, and the questions to ask before your date.
Frame, marquis, structure, clear top, or Keder track? A plain-English comparison of every tent style we carry and when each one fits.
What pipe and drape is, where it earns its keep, and how to plan backdrops, booths, and room dividers.
How to plan stages and risers for ceremonies, bands, speakers, and head tables — height, placement, and safety basics.
String lights to stage wash: lighting types, planning steps, and how to light a tent so it feels like a venue.
How Houston businesses use temporary structures in continuity planning — before, during, and after a disruption.
Keeping tented events comfortable through Houston heat, humidity, and cold snaps.
What corporate planners should know about tented events, from layout to logistics.
Why Take Planning Advice from ACME?
Since 1997
Family-owned and planning Houston events for decades.
One Vendor
Tents, furniture, power, lighting, climate — we plan whole events.
Pro Crews
Advice grounded in thousands of real installations.
24/7 QRT
Emergency experience that informs our preparedness guides.
From Research to Rental
When you have read enough and are ready to plan for real, browse the full rental catalog — tents, tables, chairs, linens, staging, dance floors, pipe and drape, lighting, AV, generators, and climate control — or explore events by type to see how it comes together for weddings, festivals, and corporate gatherings. Businesses with industrial or emergency needs should start with industrial tenting and our Quick Response Team.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Every guide is written with Houston and Southeast Texas conditions in mind — the heat, humidity, sudden storms, and local venue quirks that shape outdoor events here.
No. The guides are written to be useful on their own. Naturally, we hope you will call us when you are ready to rent — we have been Houston’s family-owned event rental company since 1997.
Absolutely. Call 713-729-2424 or request a quote and an ACME event specialist will walk through your date, site, and guest count with you.
Guides are evergreen pages that we review and refresh over time, unlike dated blog posts, so the advice stays current.
Since 1997
Family-owned & serving Houston for decades
Houston & Gulf Coast
Delivering across Southeast Texas
24/7 Quick Response
Disaster relief & emergency deployments
One Vendor
Tents, furniture, power, climate & service
Plan your next event with ACME and let us worry about the details!
From corporate gatherings to a festival for thousands, ACME’s event specialists will walk you through the entire process.