We are always thrilled when a bride and groom to be choose us at Balloon Inspirations to help set the scene for their wedding reception party decorations.
When working in this beautiful reception room at a venue in Orsett Essex, rather than focus on the constraints presented by the load bearing columns in the room and the relatively low ceilings, we decided to capitalise on the columns by creating classic balloon columns in ivory which were softened by the addition of leaves and flowers – (Roses and Gerbera daises).
Table decorations consists of double stuffed balloons in Ivory and clear balloons while jumbo 3 foot balloons with integral lighting cast a warm glow over the new bride and groom at the newly weds top table.
Boy or Girl? Balloons for baby gender reveal parties.
Most people love to have an excuse to throw or even attend a good party.
A relative newcomer on the “party-to-celebrate” block is the planning and celebration of a “baby gender reveal” party. This is a trend that has been gaining a lot of traction in recent years and appears to be fuelled by the social sharing sites such as Facebook, Pinterest and the online handmade and vintage marketplace – Etsy.
Boy or girl? The big question which is on the lips of most of the friends and family of the parents to be and hosting a baby’s gender reveal is certainly an exciting way of letting everyone know at once. In fact, quite often, even the baby’s parents choose to find out their baby’s sex at the same time as their friends and family so they can fully share in the anticipation and excitement too. This approach takes a bit of extra planning as when the mum-to-be goes for her pregnancy scan sufficiently late in her pregnancy, she would ask the sonographer not to let her know but write down and seal the sex of the baby in an envelope.
Often, revealing the gender of a baby is incorporated into the baby shower thus making it a two-in-one party. At Balloon Inspirations, we are privileged to be a part of baby gender reveal parties by providing unique balloon decor for baby showers and baby gender reveal parties.
Balloons in a box:
For couples who wish to share the excitement and anticipation of learning the sex of their baby at the same time as their family and friends, we create large boxes stuffed full of balloons in the conventional colours to signify if they are expecting a little boy or a little girl. Variations of this theme include plush toys also in the conventional colour (pink or blue) ‘holding’ balloons which float up as the box is opened.
Exploding balloons:
Large (3 foot) balloons in solid colours are filled with smaller balloons and confetti in pink or blue. These balloons are then exploded remotely or conventionally at a predetermined time during the celebrations, dropping their contents onto the parents-to-be, revealing in an instant the gender of the expected baby.
Share via social media
Even if you do not wish to host a party specifically for revealing your baby’s gender, the advent of social media means you can still creatively announce whether you are expecting a boy or a girl. A photo shoot featuring balloons in the appropriate colour could be posted to a group of your friends and family on Facebook /Instagram and other social media sites ; just remember to adjust your privacy settings so your baby announcement does not end up going viral!
Rainbows and Clouds – brightly coloured birthday balloon decorations
When planning child’s birthday celebration, there are many things to consider. Of course one of the first things to consider would be what form the birthday celebration is going to take? Would you or should you go for a quiet evening at home (if you – the parent can get away with it!), a shopping trip – (when they get to a certain age)… Once you have resigned yourself to the reality that you are not going to get away with a quiet evening at home and you know for sure you are having a party, other considerations have to be made. Where is this party taking place? in your living room, your garden (many people are getting away with this even with the UK’s dubious climate) or some other function hall or function room somewhere.
As soon as the party venue has been decided, you can decide whether or not you would like to go for a “themed” party or not. Themed parties are particularly popular especially for children who already know their own favourite colours, TV shows or fictional characters.
A party “theme” that would hardly ever go out of fashion or favour is the simple use of primary colours or rainbow colours, due mainly to the fact that these bright colours have the inherent ability to brighten up any room. Balloons have that special advantage of adding vibrant colours to a space, instantly filling even the most drably decorated room with fun and life!
Tope Abulude of Ballooninspirations.com; serving Essex, Kent, London and beyond within the UK has had the pleasure of designing party decorations featuring multicoloured rainbow balloons. One of the more recent of such parties was a birthday party featuring an actual balloon “rainbow” which served as the room focal point, framing the celebrant’s cake table. The guest table decorations comprised small balloon rainbows floating above balloon clouds as shown in the pictures below.
The use of balloons in bright colours (rainbow balloons) for birthday party decorations is especially effective when there is a desire to mask the decor of the function venue. As balloons help to fill up spaces with large blocks of colour, bringing attention to themselves; this attribute was utilised for another birthday party venue recently.
These pictures show varied interpretations of the same theme:- Clients may choose to focus the decorations on creating specific focal points such as the birthday cake table, ceiling decorations (useful when the space has a high ceiling ), the dancefloor, individual table decorations/centrepieces or you can have full room decorations – a “splash” of colour all over the room, creating a unified whole. The colours and the giant “O ” or ring in the pictures below actually allude to “loom bands” ; a firm favourite with the birthday celebrant.
I wondered if it’s possibek and what kind of cost it might be to decorate a marquee ceiling with balloons that have fake ivy falling off?
The marquee is 18mx 12m.
I have some images.
Wedding is next September 21st
Hedingham Castle in Essex