Wedding decor rental in Gatineau
Gatineau is in Quebec. The city took its present shape in 2002, when Hull, Aylmer, Gatineau, Buckingham and Masson-Angers were merged, and all five sectors sit in the same line of our zone table.
Quebec delivery is not open yet
Gatineau is in Quebec, and delivering rented goods across the river is a Quebec supply rather than an Ontario one. It carries GST and QST instead of Ontario HST, it falls under Quebec's consumer protection rules, and it needs a QST registration we do not yet hold. Until that registration is in place we are not taking Quebec delivery bookings, and this page exists to say so rather than to take a deposit we cannot honour.
What is open today: self pickup from the studio, which costs nothing, carries no order minimum, and covers the 16 pieces of 27 that do not need our crew on site. Every Ontario town on our list is unaffected.
The zone row for Gatineau still appears in our fee table at $140 with a $250 minimum. That is the rate the run will carry when it opens, not a rate you can book today. If the booking sheet lets you select it, do not: contact us instead and we will arrange the pickup or hold the date.
What the Gatineau run costs us, for when it opens
Not fuel. Crew time. A run to Gatineau books 135 minutes of a crew day for a single stop: 35 minutes out, 35 back, 45 minutes to stand a wedding arch, and twenty minutes of loading and paperwork. Friday is our biggest delivery day and it carries 660 crew minutes and 6 stops in total, so one Gatineau stop takes roughly 20 percent of it.
That is also why the order minimum climbs faster than the fee does. The fee prices the run; the minimum makes sure the run is worth taking a Friday slot for, when there are only a handful of slots in the day.
The full crew capacity tableWhy there is no worked total on this page
Every other town on our list carries a worked example showing what an order at the zone minimum costs delivered. This page does not, and the reason is worth stating: our quote engine applies Ontario HST, and a Gatineau order would carry GST and QST instead. We know the number the engine would produce would be wrong, so we are not going to print it next to a total and hope nobody checks.
Collecting it yourself, the one lane that is open
Because delivery into Quebec is on hold, this is not the frugal option for a Gatineau wedding, it is the whole offer. It costs nothing and carries no order minimum, and the pieces below are yours to book today.
Pickup costs nothing and carries no order minimum. It is two round trips rather than one, because you collect before the event and bring it back after, so from Gatineau that is four legs of a 35 minute drive, about 2 h 20 behind the wheel.
There is no van minimum to clear here, because there is no van run to book. Everything in the catalog that does not need our crew is available at the counter, at the published rate. 16 of the 27 pieces in the catalog are released for pickup. The other 11 need our crew on site, and that is enforced in the booking engine rather than left to the interface to hide.
The courier lane, and why it is on the same hold
The courier lane is the small parcel tier: a driver puts the box in a car and drives away. They do not wait, they do not carry it in, and they do not set anything up. A courier drop in Gatineau is still a delivery into Quebec, so it waits on the same registration the van does. At 35 minutes each way it would meter out at $125.50, which is the figure for when Quebec opens rather than one to book against. These are the pieces that would travel that way, and every one of them can be collected from the studio today.
- · 11 need our crew on site to stand them up, and a courier does not stay.
- · 5 are glass or mirror. A gig courier's damage policy denies compensation on fragile goods, so a broken crate would be entirely our loss at any weight.
- · 2 are over the courier weight or packed length limit.
- · 1 is kept off the courier lane by its own product note: Cake Stand.
Some product notes describe the courier lane as a short radius option around the studio. The booking sheet prices it by drive time, so on the longer runs treat the courier figure as a quote to confirm rather than a promise.
Which categories suit this zone
Read the pickup column rather than the item count. With delivery into Quebec on hold, the useful question is not what we stock, it is what one person can collect and set up without our crew.
| Category | From | Pieces | Courier | Pickup | Crew |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Photo Booths / Bornes photo | $195 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Statement Pieces / Pièces maîtresses | $215 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Signage / Affichage | $95 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| Table Decor / Décor de table | $70 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 0 |
| Candles & Lighting / Bougies et éclairage | $72 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| Reception / Réception | $35 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| Arches & Florals / Arches et décor floral | $120 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Venues we have written up in and around Gatineau
Gatineau in practice
- · A Quebec order is not an Ontario order with a longer drive. The tax is GST and QST rather than Ontario HST, the consumer protection rules are Quebec's, and under the Charter of the French Language the French version of anything we publish has to be at least as complete as the English.
- · Our zone table has carried a Gatineau line since the storefront was built. A line in a table is not a booking, and the notice below says exactly what is and is not open.
Nearest towns we publish
What we have not published about Gatineau
- · How many events we have set up here. We have not published a count, because we have not logged one we would stand behind. A number on a page that nobody can check is worth less than the admission that it is missing.
- · A Quebec tax total, a Quebec contract, or a delivery date. All three wait on the QST registration.
Questions people actually ask
Can we book a Gatineau delivery today? +
No. Gatineau is in Quebec, and delivering rented goods across the river is a Quebec supply: GST and QST rather than Ontario HST, and Quebec consumer protection rules rather than Ontario's. That needs a QST registration we do not yet hold, so Quebec delivery is not open. Self pickup from the studio is, and it carries no fee and no order minimum.
Can we rent from you at all if our wedding is in Gatineau? +
Yes, by collecting the order yourself. Every piece that does not need our crew on site is available for pickup, which is 16 of the 27 in the catalog. What is not available is our van crossing the river to deliver and install it.
How far is the drive if we collect the order ourselves? +
Two round trips from Gatineau, because you collect before the event and bring it back after. At 35 minutes each way that is about 2 h 20 behind the wheel in total. Pickup costs nothing and carries no order minimum, and pieces that need our crew are never released for it.
Can the small pieces come by courier to Gatineau instead? +
No. A courier drop in Gatineau is still a delivery into Quebec, so it sits behind the same QST registration the van does. 8 of the 27 pieces are small and sturdy enough for that lane, and at 35 minutes each way it would meter out at $125.50. That is the number for when Quebec opens, not one you can book against today.
Why is delivery to Gatineau more than the Ottawa core rate? +
Because of what the run costs us in crew time rather than in fuel. A run to Gatineau books 135 minutes of a crew day for one stop: 35 minutes out, 35 back, the install itself, and twenty minutes of loading and paperwork. Friday, our biggest delivery day, carries 660 crew minutes and 6 stops in total, so that single job takes about 20 percent of it.
All 27 pieces, with measured specs and what each one excludes.
The whole rate card, with no quote form in front of it.
The full zone map, and the one town that is not on it.