Bride squad balloons

Balloons are the one part of this order that is bought for the room rather than per person, and counting them per head is the most common way a decoration budget doubles. The packs here run large for a reason: a garland across the back of a sofa swallows far more balloons than the photograph suggests, and the kits are sold on the assumption that you will pop a few learning how the strip works. Where a pack on this page prints a count, sixteen is the middle of it and the biggest packs run to a hundred.

Buy the kit rather than loose bags if this is the first garland you have built. A kit arrives with the strip, the glue dots and a mix of sizes already worked out, and the mix is what makes a garland look like a garland instead of a row. Inflate the day before if the room allows it: a foil letter holds overnight without trouble, while latex left in a hot car goes soft and latex left in an air-conditioned room shrinks by morning. The giant letters are the exception to everything above. They are bought one at a time, they photograph as the backdrop on their own, and one of them is usually enough.

This page is one slice of the Bride Squad roster, cut by the job rather than by the shelf the pieces sit on.