Our quick and easy to follow descriptions will let you figure out what balloon decorations are the right option for your special party.
When we kicked off with balloon design, we felt confused with the substantial variety of displays we came upon. Yet along our learning process, we discovered that it all come down to three basic styles:
Balloon Bouquet
Primarily used as a main feature for desks, the balloon bouquet truly is the heart of a balloon display. Between two and nine balloons, tied to twisting ribbons, are arranged in various heights and secured to a table support.
A balloon centerpiece may be made of latex OR mylar (also referred to as foil) balloons OR you can blend them.
As the balloons need to be helium filled this choice determines the life-span of your balloon decorations. Whereas mylar balloons will float up to 14 days, even the best latex balloons won't stay up much longer than for about 12 to 24 hours. However, by utilizing a product called 'hi-float', it's possible to make them survive 10 to 25 times as long!
Balloon Arch
Typically, balloon arches perform their purpose best when you can walk through them! They are excellent balloon decorations for an entrance or exit. Frequently they are also utilized to frame the head or cake table at a wedding or to make an incredible stage decoration.
Unlike with bouquets you have the choice between helium or air-filled balloon arch.
A hovering 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, similar to the table bases for bouquets, just a bit heavier and generally basing on the floor. A brick or sand filled balloon will do the job and can easily be decorated quite nicely.
With a "String of Pearls" - frequently used for wedding balloon arches - you put together an amazing result with quite little effort. The only disadvantage is the short life-span, as a result of the nature of helium-filled latex balloons, as explained above.
You could either use mylar balloons instead of latex or you go for an arch with air-filled balloons if the decoration for your specific party should last longer.
With these types of balloon decorations, there is a little bit more more info constructional labor involved, as an air filled balloon arch needs some supporting elements:
a structure constructed from a good, flexible material such as conduit, PVC pipe or aluminium pole and
a stable base at either end to anchor the arch.
The pipe or rod is formed into the actual arch and the balloons are connected to it, mainly in bunches of three to five balloons. Using a variety of colors and placing the balloons in an unique way you'll get this great spiraling result displayed 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 investment, of course, only makes sense if you are preparing to do many more balloon decorations.
A much less complex way to make an air filled balloon arch is by making use of so called 'Link-o-Loon' balloons.
Balloon Column
Placed as superb eye-catchers at each side of an entry or head table at a wedding event, balloon columns are excellent for wedding balloon decorations. They also make wonderful balloon decorations for defining an area of your wedding venue, for example the dance floor or the stage decoration.
As columns are frequently made from air filled balloons, supporting materials are required:
a sturdy metal or plastic pole and
a sturdy base as anchor for the rod.
The balloons are connected to sets of generally three to five balloons and fixed to the rod, layer after layer. Utilizing a bigger size 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 at the top of the balloon column.
Like with the air filled arch, each of these balloon decorations imply you'll must blow up a bunch of balloons! Renting an inflator would be an excellent idea, primarily for blowing up the giant balloon that crowns your column.
Additionally you might fill just the balloons at the bottom with air and the rest with helium. By doing this you would not need a stable base and a pole, as the balloons are going to support themselves. Work with a nylon line to secure 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. On the other hand, helium costs much more than air and the life expectancy of click here the balloon decorations will be much lower.