helium balloons..

littlecat29

Been looking through the centre piece thread further down the page and i love the champagne bottle balloon weights - for our evening party we are having 3 balloons in purple and ivory per table weighted down with now i think the champagne bottles! - for those of you having balloons - are you sourcing them yourselves and if so what are you doing abt the helium filling?

Our florist has quoted for balloons and they seem rather expensive for him to provide...

MrsDrink

You could even tie them to your teapots for your table numbers!! (And paint the table numbers onto the teapots!)

Sorry lol that doesn't answer your question.

You can buy helium canisters. My rough googling when I was umming and ahhing whether to have helium or air filled balloons, shows they are roughly £1 per balloons worth of helium. As for the balloons they are relatively cheap - I bought 100 balloons for just over £5.

johannalf88

Try googling tescoparty, they have their own website. You may be able to find an idea of price from there.

littlecat29

Mrs Drink - we've got 2 seperate rooms at our venue - the conservatory for afternoon tea after the ceremony and then we move to a bigger room for our evening party - luckily we can have two individual themes!! although the evening reception is purely 3 x balloons on tables with scattered crystals :-)

will check out tesco party thank you!!

MrsDrink

Oh wow - that sounds fab!! Love the idea of having separate identities to your afternoon and evening receptions!!

sammy_wheeler

i was going to have balloons- and i brought the balloons and purple heart balloon weights- but now i have decided not to have them (need to sell them actually- will put that on my list of things to do!)- as i am having petals on the tables instead

asda do helium canisters- £20

jennyiow

We are having a similar theme, tea party out in a marquee for the afternoon then inside more traditional wedding decor in the evening. I'm currently torn between candles or balloons for the tables. Thinking we'll probably do candles on the tables and helium balloons round the outskirts of the room. We'll probably buy the balloons and a helium canister.

ladsmadd

Hi Littlecat29,

My sister gets married on saturday we thought about doing the balloons ourselfs. Was going to order a balloon package off ebay and buy helium canisters. We found the helium was working out to dear for the amount of balloons, so just happened to try the card factory, might be worth alook if have one near you.
The are doing us 11 sets of 3 with a plain white just married 4 sets of 3 with large just married heart for top tables and one large balloon arch about 20 balloons for about £65. Only downside need to pick them up.

laurenxx22

i am buying my balloons from ebay, im going to buy some balloon ribbon and some nice shimmer wrapping paper put sand in the wrapping paper and tie with ribbon and use them as balloon weights. i am going to buy some stuff called hi-float to put in the balloons so i can do them the day before and we are going to hire a helium canister for about £50 x

murie

laurenxx22 wrote: »

i am buying my balloons from ebay, im going to buy some balloon ribbon and some nice shimmer wrapping paper put sand in the wrapping paper and tie with ribbon and use them as balloon weights. i am going to buy some stuff called hi-float to put in the balloons so i can do them the day before and we are going to hire a helium canister for about £50 x

Card Factory do these shimmer weights for 49p each- saves the hassle of making them and the possiblity of them coming apart in transit.

Curious_George_2

littlecat29 wrote: »

Been looking through the centre piece thread further down the page and i love the champagne bottle balloon weights - for our evening party we are having 3 balloons in purple and ivory per table weighted down with now i think the champagne bottles! - for those of you having balloons - are you sourcing them yourselves and if so what are you doing abt the helium filling?

Our florist has quoted for balloons and they seem rather expensive for him to provide...

hello... thats my center pieces your on about!
we bought the champagne weights from the range (with a discount though as OH works there) we bought all the balloons off ebay and we searched everywhere for the cheapest way to get the helium,
we ended up hiring a balloon woman to come to the venue in the morning and do it all for us, and she knocked money off her normal prices because we had all the stuff already,
she also did us some displays and an arch for the cake table for just over £100 all in