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The balloons at your wedding reception serve three purposes:
-to provide color and a note of fanciful fun,
-to signify the buoyancy and limitless potential of love, and
-to go easy on the decor budget!
It’s not hard to push your wedding decor budget past its limits with needless expense. Wedding balloons can support your effort to keep it real, budget-wise, in numerous ways. At the same time, balloons can be an invitation to overkill, with buoyant madness at every turn, bouncing abundantly against your surprised guests!
Avoid the maze of balloons that can result from not curbing your enthusiasm! Rather, err on the side of elegance that gently tames the visual fun introduced by balloons. In other words, remember that this is a wedding reception and not a kid’s birthday party. You’ve put a lot of thought into your makeup and bouquet details. Balloons are one decor element that can create striking and memorable scenery, giving your wedding the elegance it demands, with aesthetic appeal aplenty. The balloons are still bringing the fun. But their exuberant nature is contained within a more adult framework.
Yes! You Can Include Balloons at the Ceremony!
An arch at the entrance of your ceremonial venue is the perfect opportunity to add balloons to this part of your big day. Attached to a frame, your balloon arch can be of many shapes and sizes, according to the type of entrance you’re working with. A Moroccan arch or a picture frame? A round arch or a heart shape?
Punctuated with seasonal flowers and ribbons, your arch might be made of a wide variety of balloon sizes, shapes, and textures. Go monochromatic with your balloon arch, adding elegance and high design awareness. Stay within one tonal family to produce a variety of effects, including ombre treatments.
A Wall of Welcome and Celebration
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Most wedding reception venues have a reception space before your guests enter the main party area. This is where you should select a wall and earmark it for an elegantly fun balloon treatment. This wall will serve as a wow factor for your guests as they enter. It will also be where guests can take selfies with their phones or where you can set up a photo booth area! Encourage this as part of the fun!
Again, using different sizes of balloons allows you to shape your wall’s contours. You may want it to be monochromatic or to add a second color with draped or creatively manipulated fabric or flower arrangements. Near your balloon wall is the right place for your guest book to live, to one side of the entrance to your venue’s party area.
Buoyant Centerpiece Treatment
Whether you choose to limit your balloon-embellished table centerpieces to the head table or you plan to extend it to all guest tables, this touch speaks of the lightness of love and its elevating effect on our lives.
Heartfelt symbolism aside, the beauty of helium balloons in one of your wedding colors can’t be understated. As the party goes on, the balloons rising from your floral centerpieces are elegantly evocative.
Dance Floor Canopy
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Create intimacy and beauty with a dance floor canopy, using balloons. Like the arch at the ceremony space, the canopy can take many forms and shapes. You can hang it low over the dance floor or high. You can attach strings of balloons at each corner to better define the dance floor, making it a breathtaking focal point. Add LED strip lights or fairy lights and a frame and you have created an effect none of your guests will forget any time soon.
Center your dance floor canopy with a chandelier, dressed up in fairy lights to add to its glow. From this center, strings of balloons and lights radiate, comfortably and safely attaching to the metal frame you’re using. Imagine the beautiful effect of lighting and balloons used this way. Best of all the biggest outlay is for the frame. Creating a focal point for your venue reduces the necessity for huge, expensive flourishes like flowers. Wouldn’t you rather have those at the ceremony?
Balloon displays for weddings can bring you elegant fun when you use them in both a budget-conscious and aesthetically pleasing way. By using them as accents, focal points, and breathtaking decor, they create their own buoyant magic, becoming an integral part of your special day. Here’s to celebrating your nuptials with the elegant fun of balloons!