Balloon Release Alternative

Only safe alternative is honestly just bubbles.

Paper airplane?

Glow sticks

Tinsel wands?

Just do a final song that everyone knows?

Have everyone make a circle around the dance floor link arms and sway to "American Pie" by Don Mclean

Chinese lanterns? Not sure if those are better, but they would dissolve instead of sitting around like a balloon. There are the sparklers, bells, bubbles, biodegradable confetti?

The tinsel wands look like sparklers.

Totally did not know you were on here! We're doing tinsel wands since our venue won't allow sparklers.

I've noticed more and more places shunning sparklers. How dangerous have they become in the last 20 years? Or how bad were my parents because I certainly remember being allowed to wave them around as a child!!!

Maybe incorporate balloons in your reception and then see if you release them afterwards. Means less clean up for the venue...

Maybe something like this?

http://placeofevents.theaspenshops.com/product/have-a-blast-biodegradable-celebratory-wedding.html

Butterfly release is beautiful if it's not too cold. we're also thinking of doing a covered flashlight at night with designs on them to honor my mother and other relatives who have passed on along with a moment of silence. each person writes the name or draws a pic on special paper and we tape them over and voila!

Thanks so much everyone! These are some great ideas! xoxoxo

FYI, the sky lanterns have a metal wire frame inside...so I don't see how that is any better for the environment than balloons. If a balloon release is done properly, it poses no harm to the envirnment and latex ballons are completely biodegradable...and no chance of catching anything on fire!

Here's the facts:

http://theballooncouncil.org/myths-facts.html#Balloon-Releases