Comments on: Balloons At Receptions: Dos and Don’ts

By: bridal registry

bridal registry — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:29:03 +0000

But why? Its so cute! I have to, I have to!

By: tom perera

tom perera — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:08:32 +0000

Very pretty… the wedding balloons look just amazing.
All I can say is….wow.

This was a wonderful wedding

By: Twistie

Twistie — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 01:08:09 +0000

NtB and La Petite Acadienne, you should have known my mother. She was severely phobic about balloons, too. We pretty much never had balloons as kids. And no, I never felt particularly put upon over that. We had other stuff that I thought was more fun, anyway.

Oh, and Deanderthal clearly wins Most Gracious Bride of the Decade for her amazingly deft handling of the situation.

By: Never teh Bride

Never teh Bride — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:13:36 +0000

@La Petite Acadienne You know I never thought of it as a phobia, but I get totally freaked out when people pop balloons or threaten to pop them. Glad to know I’m not alone in that!

By: La Petite Acadienne

La Petite Acadienne — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:27:11 +0000

That’s awesome that you were so understanding of your friend with the phobia, as many people aren’t. Some even think it’s funny to squeeze a balloon around a phobic person or chase them around with one. Even my own husband didn’t fully understand until the time he was teasing me with one and I started hyperventilating and crying.

By: Never teh Bride

Never teh Bride — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:56:39 +0000

@Deanderthal I want to applaud you for not freaking out when your MIL showed up with the balloons, thinking of your friend with the phobia, *and* being so kind as to bring the balloons out for photos just to please your MIL. Not every bride would have done all that… maybe the first two, but the third? Genius. It was indeed a great compromise and probably endeared you to your sweetie’s mother for the rest of your life.

By: Deanderthal

Deanderthal — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:32:38 +0000

Balloons always seem to say Birthday Party to me as well. So I left them out of my wedding decor. We did consider them as a possible “thing to have in the pool at our venue to keep people from playing in it or thinking about throwing me in”, tied to weights and kind of half-submerged bobbing. BUT, one of my guests has a balloon phobia so we just decided to leave them out.

It didn’t stop my MIL from, on the day of the wedding, randomly going out and buying about 50 balloons in every color, having them filled with helium, and then bringing them in insisting I use them to re-decorate because she liked them better.

I even told her about my guest and she DARED to suggest “well tell her not to come”. WHAT. >.<

I am FOREVER grateful that the entirety of the rest of my inlaw family put a stop to that. They backed me up, shot her down, and took them from her to hide away in a back room.

But because I'm nice, after my friend with the phobia left for the night, I brought them out and the new hubby and I took some photos with them. This seemed to make her very happy…..and it was a nice compromise.

By: Never teh Bride

Never teh Bride — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:09:32 +0000

I’ll admit, La Petite Acadienne, that I find the second photo a lot more horrifying than the first. Does the bride not look somewhat like an octopus? And the balloon groom… he has giant feet.

By: La Petite Acadienne

La Petite Acadienne — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:56:57 +0000

If I walked into a wedding reception like either of those photos, I’d have to leave — I have a phobia of balloons.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:33:25 +0000

Balloons can be turned into something elegant…Liked the concept! It’s new to me!