I used this tent for my wedding. I am a mechanical engineer and assembled it with 4 people with varying technical ability. It took us about an hour to assemble the tent. The instructions are not well organized. We had to figure out ourselves how the tent rods screwed together. The rods were numbered, but the diagrams that described how to assemble them were out of order. The center rods are super thin and bow easily. When we were lifting the tent up, one of the center rods got bent.