Our quick and easy to follow explanations will assist you make up your mind what balloon decorations are the most ideal choice for your special event.
We felt overwhelmed with the large variety of displays we came across when we started off with balloon decorating. Along our studying process, we figured out that it all boils down to three primary designs:
Balloon Bouquet
Generally used as a centerpiece for dinner tables, the balloon bouquet actually is the heart of a balloon display. Between two and nine balloons, tied to curling ribbons, are laid out in various heights and attached to a table base. In the instances under the base is either a weighted flower gift basket or a sand-filled balloon. It can be essentially any decorative item that is heavy enough to keep the balloons in position and where the ribbons can be tied to.
A balloon centerpiece may be made of latex OR mylar (also referred to as foil) balloons OR you can blend them.
As the balloons will need to be helium filled this choice determines the lifespan of your balloon decorations. Whereas mylar balloons will float as much as 14 days, even the best quality latex balloons would not stay up longer than for about 12 to 24 hours. By utilizing a product called 'hi-float', it's achievable to make them last 10 to 25 times as long!
Balloon Arch
Generally, balloon arches fulfill their purpose best when you can walk through them! They are ideal balloon decorations for an entrance or exit. Frequently they are also utilized to frame the head or cake table at a wedding celebration or to design a spectacular stage decoration.
Unlike with bouquets you have the choice between helium or air-filled balloon arch.
A hovering arch is composed of single helium-filled balloons organized like pearls along an invisible nylon string, hence the name "String of Pearls". Both ends are fixed to bases, very similar to the table bases for bouquets, just a bit heavier and often standing on the floor. A brick or sand filled balloon will do the job and can easily be click here decorated quite nicely.
With a "String of Pearls" - quite often used for wedding balloon arches - you make an incredible outcome with relatively little effort. The only drawback is the short life-span, as a result of the nature of helium-filled latex balloons, as explained above.
If the decor for your special occasion need to last much longer, you may either work with mylar balloons in place of latex or you go for an arch with air-filled balloons.
Having said that, with these styles of balloon decorations, there is a little more constructional work required, as an air filled balloon arch needs to have some supportive elements:
a structure constructed from a good, flexible material like conduit, PVC piping or aluminium pole and
a stable base at either end to anchor the arch.
The conduit or rod is shaped into the actual arch and the balloons are attached to it, mainly in clusters of three to five balloons. By utilizing various colors and placing the balloons in an unique way you'll get this good spiraling effect presented on the photo. Don't panic, we'll describe in detail and with numbers of photos how to do that!
Basing on the size of the arch you'll have to blow up quite a few balloons! This purchase, obviously, only makes sense if you are considering to do many more balloon decorations.
A much simpler way to create an air filled balloon arch is by making use of so named 'Link-o-Loon' balloons.
Balloon Column
Positioned as superb eye-catchers at each side of an entrance or head table at a wedding ceremony, balloon columns are great for wedding balloon decorations. They also make great balloon decorations for marking out an area of your wedding venue, as an example the dance floor or the stage decoration.
As columns are commonly made from air filled balloons, supportive materials are required:
a strong metal or plastic pole and
a stable base as support for the pole.
The balloons are linked to bundles of generally three to five balloons and fixed to the rod, layer after layer. Using larger sized balloons for the top and the bottom, and smaller balloons in between, the balloon column takes the characteristic shape of its model in the "real" world. To crown your work you could place a stuffed giant balloon on top of the balloon column.
Like with the air filled arch, both of these balloon decorations imply you'll will need to blow up a ton of balloons! Renting an inflator would be a good idea, in particular for blowing up the giant balloon that crowns your column.
You could fill only the balloons at the bottom with air and the rest with helium. That way you won't need a stable base and a pole, as the balloons are going to support themselves. Make use of a nylon line to affix the balloon clusters to.
If you need the display just for one evening, a helium filled balloon column will do fine. It saves you the trouble of constructing a frame and renting an inflator. Yet, helium costs more air and the life expectancy of the balloon decorations will be much lower.