One Quote, One Contact
You receive a single itemised quote and speak to one person. Shabz holds the relationships, the bookings and the follow up with each supplier behind it.
Prop Hire
Event Prop Hire Sydney
Shabz does not own a prop warehouse. What he has is six years of relationships with the Sydney companies that do, which means the pieces at your event are chosen because they suit the room rather than because they happened to be on a shelf.
Prop hire is coordinated within event styling, from $1,200.
Sourced Rather Than Owned
Being direct about this, because the industry usually is not.
A hire company will style your event with what it owns. That is not dishonesty, it is the business model, but it means the bar you get is the bar they bought and the furniture is whatever is currently on the floor. The event ends up shaped by the inventory.
Working through a network inverts that. The brief is set first, against your venue and your budget, and then Shabz finds the pieces that serve it from whichever supplier actually has the right thing. Staging from one company, lounge furniture from another, lighting from a third, if that is what the room needs.
What you avoid is the coordination. Several suppliers means several contracts, several delivery windows and several chances for something to turn up while another event is bumping out. Shabz holds all of it. One quote, one contact, and delivery booked against the venue operations calendar rather than left to chance.
What Shabz will not do is advertise pieces as available for hire from him, because they are not his to hire out. Everything below describes what can be sourced, not what sits in a shed.
What Can Be Sourced
Categories rather than a catalogue.
- Staging and structures
- Raised platforms, backdrops, panelled and mirrored walls, arches and frames, plinths and pedestals. Scale is specified against the actual ceiling height and room depth, since a structure sized from a supplier photograph routinely arrives looking undersized.
- Bars and service furniture
- Mobile bars, back bars, drink and cocktail stations, grazing and dessert tables. These are the surfaces guests spend the night standing around, so they carry more of the room than a formal table plan does.
- Lounge and seating
- Occasional furniture, lounges, ottomans, cocktail and bar seating, plus rugs and layered textures where the direction calls for warmth rather than uniformity. Vintage and antique pieces can be sourced with enough lead time.
- Tables and surface detail
- Linen, napery, placemats and chargers, glassware and cutlery, candle and candelabra treatments, glass vessels and terrariums, and menu and place card styling.
- Lighting and effects
- Festoon, uplighting, pin spots, suspended installations and neon or lit signage. Anything rigged, suspended or involving haze depends entirely on what the venue permits and its smoke detection, which is confirmed before it is quoted rather than after.
- Wedding specific pieces
- such as arbours, aisle treatments and ceremony seating sit on the wedding side of the same network. See wedding decoration hire.
What You Are Actually Paying For
The pieces are the easy part.
Delivery That Holds
Props arriving during another event bump out is the most common avoidable failure at a busy venue. Delivery is booked against the venue operations schedule and confirmed in writing.
Specified for the Room
Scale is what inventories get wrong. What works in a marquee is undersized in a ballroom. Sourcing across suppliers means matching the piece to the ceiling height you actually have.
Installed and Removed
Shabz is on site for the install and returns for the pack down, and everything goes back to the supplier it came from. Dry hire leaves all of that to you.
Common Questions
No. Shabz does not hold hire stock and does not operate as a hire company. Props are sourced through a supplier network and coordinated as part of a styling booking, which is a different service to dry hire.
Rarely in a way that matters, and the comparison is not like for like. Hiring direct means you carry the coordination, the delivery scheduling, the install and the return across several suppliers. What you are paying for here is that work being done and the pieces being chosen for your room.
Most venues do, particularly on anything suspended, anything fixed to a wall and anything with an open flame or haze. Those restrictions are confirmed with venue operations before the props are quoted, so nothing is specified that cannot legally be installed.
Often yes, including vintage furniture, rugs and unusual glassware, where the direction calls for texture rather than uniformity. Unusual pieces need longer lead times, so raise them early rather than late.
Yes. Delivery windows are booked with the venue, Shabz is on site for the install, and the pack down and return to suppliers happens after the event.
Sydney and Western Sydney, plus Newcastle, the Hunter Valley and the Central Coast. Regional events need more lead time on transport, and travel is itemised separately in the quote rather than absorbed into the price.
Let's Create Something Beautiful
Tell Shabz about your event and a considered response follows within 24 to 48 hours.
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