Urgent help needed please!!

[MumElla22]

Planned our DD 1st birthday party tomorrow, unfortunately it is a garden party. Thought we had it all figured out as we have plenty of gazebos for if it rained, didn’t even consider the chance of heavy winds 🤦🏼‍♀️. Any tips hugely welcome as we can’t actually fit everyone in our house 🙃😂. The gazebo’s we have are the 6x3m party kind. We have plenty to anchor it down, but just wondered if anyone had experience of what they can withstand or had any other suggestions? I don’t want to injure anyone and really don’t know what to do.

Thank you from a panicking mum 🙈

We went to an outdoor party today. The forecast even this morning said heavy rain, thunder and lightning for the duration do the parent time!

It was actually sunny. Had one quick heavy downpour for ten minutes. Then fine.

So I would hold out hope that the forecast is wrong and it will all be fine! Message people tonight being optimistic, but warning that if it is terribly windy and rainy, it will be postponed. Your DD is too young to notice.

*duration of the party time

I would peg the feet, put weights on the legs (if you haven't got any then you can makeshift them out of bottles), and ensure you have at least 2 guys on each corner (tie something like bits of a white bin bag on the guys at different levels so no one trips on them).

They can withstand a lot but if the wind catches it and flips it you can say goodbye to your frame as it will just break.

To be honest you might need a Plan B. You can try to tie the gazebos down securely (to fence posts etc) but if the wind gets under them, they just aren't that strong and will collapse or blow away.

Have a few guests on standby to take the canvas off the frames quickly if the weather suddenly turns.