Our simple to follow descriptions will help you decide what balloon decors are the most ideal option for your special event.
Once we kicked off with balloon decorating, we felt confused with the massive range of displays we came across. Yet along our learning process, we understood that everything boils down to three basic concepts:
Balloon Bouquet
Usually used as a centerpiece for dinner tables, the balloon bouquet really is the heart of a balloon display. Between two and nine balloons, tied up to curling stripes, are arranged in various heights and connected to a table base. In the examples under the base is either a weighted flower basket or a sand-filled balloon. It can be essentially any decorative object that is heavy enough to keep the balloons in place and where the ribbons can be tied up to.
A balloon centerpiece may be made from latex OR mylar (also known as foil) balloons OR you can blend them.
As the balloons must be helium filled this choice determines the lifespan of your balloon decorations. Whereas mylar balloons will float approximately 14 days, even the finest quality latex balloons would not keep up longer than for about 12 to 24 hours. By working with a product knowned as 'hi-float', it's possible to make them last 10 to 25 times as long!
Balloon Arch
Generally, balloon arches fulfill their objective best when you can walk through them! So they are best balloon decorations for a doorway or exit. Often they are also utilized to frame the head or cake table at a wedding or to design a magnificent stage decor.
Unlike with bouquets you have the choice between helium or air-filled balloon arch.
A hovering arch is composed of single helium-filled balloons lined up like pearls throughout an invisible nylon line, 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 usually basing on the floor. A brick or sand filled balloon will get the job done and can easily be decorated nicely.
With a "String of Pearls" - oftentimes used for wedding balloon arches - you build an amazing outcome with fairly little effort. The only disadvantage is the short longevity, due to the nature of helium-filled latex balloons, as described above.
You could either use mylar balloons alternatively of latex or you go for an arch with air-filled balloons if the decor for your specific event should last much longer.
With these types of balloon decorations, there is a little bit more constructional labor involved, as an air filled balloon arch needs to have some supportive parts:
a frame constructed from a good, flexible material such as conduit, PVC piping or aluminium rod and
a tough base at either end to secure the arch.
The pipe or rod is shaped into the actual arch and the balloons are connected to it, mostly in bunches of three to five balloons. Utilizing different colors and putting the balloons in a special way you'll get this good spiraling result shown on the photo. Do not panic, we'll explain in detail and with lots of photos how to do that!
Depending upon the size of the arch you'll will have to blow up plenty of balloons! Get your family and friends ready! As an alternative you could use a hand pump and even rent or buy an electric inflator. This investment, obviously, only makes sense if you are intending to do many more balloon decorations.
A much basic way to create an air filled balloon arch decorations balloon is by utilizing so named 'Link-o-Loon' balloons.
Balloon Column
Positioned as impressive eye-catchers at either side of an entry or head table at a wedding celebration, balloon columns are great for wedding balloon decorations. They also make great balloon decorations for marking out an area of your wedding venue, for example the dance floor or the stage decoration.
As columns are often composed of air filled balloons, supportive materials are required:
a strong metal or plastic pole and
a stable base as anchor for the pole.
The balloons are linked to bundles of typically three to five balloons and fixed to the rod, layer after layer. Utilizing larger balloons for the top and the bottom, and smaller sized balloons in between, the balloon column takes the characteristic shape of its model in the "real" world. To click here crown your work you could put a stuffed giant balloon above the balloon column.
Like with the air filled arch, the two of these balloon decorations mean you'll must blow up a ton of here balloons! So, renting an inflator would be a really good strategy, specifically 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. This way you would not need a strong base and a pole, as the balloons are going to support themselves. Work with a nylon line to attach the balloon clusters to.
If you need the display simply for one party, a helium filled balloon column will do fine. It saves you the struggle of building a frame and renting an inflator. However, helium costs a lot more than air and the life-span of the balloon decorations will be much shorter.