Will these balloons ruin my wedding?

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I am getting married in a historic, landmark in Aug. The venue has been quite strict on the things they will allow. It has been annoying at times but it’s a compromise we have to accept.

I want to add a fun element to the disco. I have found these balloons and think they are perfect. I showed the venue wedding coordinator and they said they’ve had bad experiences with balloons (wtf?) in the past so “they wouldn’t”. I feel this is overly dramatic. How hot can it get? It’s a medium sized period room (enough space for 85 people to dance).

The party room is going to be very low lit with up lights. I think the led balloons will be just right.

Do you think the venue is being ridiculous?

At my wedding we sacrificed a bison.

I think if balloons or the lack of balloons would make or break your wedding day then you perhaps shouldn't have chosen an historic building as your location as they usually have umpteen rules that are very rigid due to the buildings being listed.

While you are looking for kitch it very quickly gets to tacky level. Especially since it's a historic site it feels disrespectful of the lieu. Why don't you have your party at a site where the vibe you're looking for is in the walls?

I think you need to go back to the wedding venue coordinator and get very precise information about why they say they've had bad experiences with balloons and what exactly they are concerned about.

if it's issues like @Hdjdb42 mentions where because it's an old building the temperature means they will drop during the course of the evening and waist height and be rolling around the floor, you may want to rethink it.

If it's a few bursting because of the heat of lights over head you may think you can live with the risk or disturbance.

I agree the white ones look better. The coloured look a bit creepy jellyfish.

Oh don’t be ridiculous

us little people can have no lasting impact on reducing climate change - it’s the elites that could really change it and cause most of the problem..with no investment there nothing can change it

she never mentioned insta..she wants it for the full eve entertainment I assume

cant believe people keep advising on tacky..she hasn’t asked for style advice!

Maybe I 'm just a basic bitch, but I think those are lovely

The people snobs saying its because the venue don't want tacky balloons in their classy establishment are surely missing the logic that in order to have had vague "issues" with balloons before they must have had a fair few people with the same idea, so it's not as if OP is the only person who has ever had such a crazy, trashy idea.

Have any of you ever been to a wedding? A successful venue will be doing at least 150 weddings every year, not to mention other events. I guarantee literally every wedding venue, no matter how "naice" will have seen behaviour and decorations considerably more tacky than some light up balloons.

I think you need to ask the venue why. They’ll have done hundreds of weddings and seen first hand what works well and what causes some challenges.

In the kindest way or not..grow the fuck up.
I waaaant my balloons and I'll scream and scream till I'm Sick.

Dangling exploding jellyfish could be "fun".

But what a fucking mess to clean up.

I would take the venue's advice on this one.

Just more plastic tat to add to the giant world landfill.

Are you ok?

Could the venue be worried about waste, as well as about risk? If you're just going to use them once and then throw them out that seems pretty wasteful to me. (am aware this is probably the most boring uptight take ever!)

Do you have to tidy the venue afterwards?

I went to a family wedding at a venue with very high ceilings. At the end of the night the bride was trying to pop all the escaped balloons with a spike on a pole several metres long. So if you have a lance it’ll probs be fine.

Well, unless it's specifically against the terms/rules of the venue, you can do whatever you want. However, I'd be listening to their advice. They've seen countless weddings and know what works, what doesn't and what's likely to cause problems. I'd at least go back to them and ask for more details on the bad experiences they've had in the past.

Sorry but I don't agree. Climate change is one thing, but producing lots of plastic tat and waste is something that 'us little people' are well placed to help do something about, by not buying it and not using it.

You might think we can have no impact, but we can if we all take more care. Having said that, a friend of mine lost a dear baby donkey because he swallowed a balloon that some fuckwit had let it off to mark the death of a relative, so maybe that would be a good reason to have a bit more thought about consequences.
Kill an animal - what a great way to mark a 'special day' or the passing of a relative eh?

I think you’ve chosen a historic venue for your wedding. Historic conjures up elegant, classical, of a period.

The balloons are the opposite of that.

The venue have advised against it and whilst not an outright veto, it does look very much as though they’d really prefer you not to have them. I wouldn’t risk spoiling the relationship you have with the venue.

If they said no it’s a no, get over it

Are you going up a ladder to get them back down then?

Wise advice, @C152 .

Why say that? OP never asked anyone if they liked the look of the balloons. Why just be nasty for the sake of it to make someone feel like shit. Why would you just want to make womeone you don’t even know feel like shit for no reason.

Yes because how important are balloons in the grand scheme of getting married?

Apparently her mum told her too, some never are able to cut those strings……

Do they mean people start playing with them, messing around with them? I agree, maybe it could distract from the sexy, fun dance party atmosphere?