Our quick and easy to follow descriptions will aid you make up your mind what balloon decorations are the right choice for your special occasion.
Once we started with balloon design, we felt confused with the huge range of displays we came upon. Yet along our learning process, we figured out that it all come down to three general designs:
Balloon Bouquet
Generally used as a centerpiece for dinner tables, the balloon bouquet really is the heart of a balloon display. Between two and nine balloons, connected to curling stripes, are arranged in different heights and connected to a table base. In the instances below the base is either a weighted flower gift basket or a sand-filled balloon. Yet it may be practically any decorative material that is heavy enough to maintain the balloons in place and where the ribbons may 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. Having said that, utilizing a product called 'hi-float', it's possible to make them last 10 to 25 times as long!
Balloon Arch
Typically, balloon arches perform their objective best when you can walk through them! They are ideal balloon decorations for an entrance or exit. Commonly they are also utilized to frame the head or cake table at a wedding or to create a magnificent stage decor.
Unlike with bouquets you get the choice between helium or air-filled balloon arch.
A floating arch is made of single helium-filled balloons arranged like pearls throughout an invisible nylon string, hence the name "String of Pearls". The two ends are fixed to bases, quite similar to the table bases for bouquets, just a bit heavier and usually standing on the floor. A brick or sand filled up balloon will get the job done and can easily be decorated nicely.
With a "String of Pearls" - usually utilized for wedding balloon arches - you produce an amazing outcome with quite little effort. The only problem is the short longevity, because of check here the nature of helium-filled latex balloons, as discussed above.
You could either use mylar balloons instead of latex or you go for an arch with air-filled balloons if the decor for your specific party should last even longer.
Having said that, with these styles of balloon decorations, there is a little bit more constructional work involved, as an air filled balloon arch requires some supportive elements:
a structure made from a solid, flexible material such as conduit, PVC pipe or aluminium pole and
a stable bottom at either end to secure the arch.
The pipe or rod is shaped into the actual arch and the balloons are attached to it, mostly in clusters of three to five balloons. Utilizing a variety of colors and putting the balloons in an unique way you'll get this good spiraling effect shown on the photo. Don't worry, we'll describe in detail and with lots of photos how to do that!
Depending upon the size of the arch you'll have to blow up quite a few balloons! So, get your friends and family ready! You might use a hand pump or even rent or buy an electrical inflator. This investment, obviously, only makes good sense if you are preparing to do many more balloon decorations.
A much easier way to create an air filled balloon arch is by using so named 'Link-o-Loon' balloons.
Balloon Columns
Positioned as superb eye-catchers at each side of an entryway or head table at a wedding celebration, balloon columns are perfect for wedding balloon decorations. They also make excellent balloon decorations for marking out an area of your venue, for example the dance floor or the stage decoration.
As columns are frequently made of air filled balloons, supportive elements are needed:
a sturdy aluminum or plastic pole and
a solid base as support for the rod.
The balloons are linked to sets of normally three to five balloons and fixed to the pole, layer after layer. By utilizing larger balloons for the bottom and the top, 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 position a stuffed giant balloon above the balloon column.
Like with the air filled arch, the two of these balloon decorations imply you'll must blow up a great deal of balloons! Getting an inflator would certainly be a very good idea, primarily for blowing up the giant balloon that crowns your column.
Additionally you could fill only the balloons at the bottom with air and the rest with helium. By doing this you would not need a strong base and a pole, as the balloons will support themselves. Utilize a nylon line to attach the balloon bunches to.
If you need to have the display simply for one event, a helium filled balloon column will do fine. It saves you the struggle of setting up a frame and leasing an inflator. However, helium costs much more than air and the lifespan of the balloon decorations will be much smaller.