The size is wonderful. We put it up the night before the afternoon bar-b-que. The area where we erected it was protected from wind and under a canopy of large trees, but it rained overnight and the tent collected so much rain that it bent most of the aluminum poles, rendering them useless. We took pictures and contacted Wayfair. They were wonderful and replaced the tent. Fortunately we had a smaller tent which we used during our party. We haven't used the new one yet, but will be aware of rain next time in the forecast.