Wedding sparklers and confetti are a no-no!
These are the two things that I would not recommend for any outdoor private estate weddings in Hawaii:
WEDDING SPARKLERS
They may look cool when all of your guests light them up right before the end of the reception, but they can be highly hazardous. One of my recent June weddings, the bride told me during her rehearsal that she shipped 2 boxes of sparklers out here, and she wanted to hand them out the last 10 minutes of her reception. So on the day of the wedding, that’s what they did. I had to pay extra attention to all the guests, and make sure that they didn’t accidentally light the dining canopy fabric on fire while they were waving the sparklers in the air. Luckily they didn’t, BUT some of the guests left the burning sparkler on the table and they ended up burning 3 linens in which the bride and groom had to pay for them!
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WEDDING CONFETTI
I know these are fun for guests to toss right when the officiant pronounce you as husband and wife, but they are really difficult to clean up afterward because they are tiny and they are all over the lawn. Most private estate owners will not even allow you to toss them, and unless you have a vacuum to suck it all up… it’s impossible to scoop them up with a rake. If you really want to provide guests a little something to toss, you can choose rose petals, orchid heads or tubes of bubbles will be really fun too!
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Tags: wedding confetti, wedding sparklers
July 22nd, 2009 at 6:56 pm
Another reason for not using sparklers:
It’s actually illegal to use sparklers (considered as “consumer fireworks”) other than during authorized dates and times, i.e., New Year’s Eve and 4th of July.
“Consumer fireworks” means any fireworks designed primarily for retail sale to the public during authorized dates and times, that produces visible or audible effects by combustion, and that is designed to remain on or near the ground and, while stationary or spinning rapidly on or near the ground, emits smoke, a shower of colored sparks, whistling effects, flitter sparks, or balls of colored sparks, and includes combination items that contain one or more of these effects. “Consumer fireworks” shall comply with the construction, chemical composition, and labeling regulations of the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission as set forth in Title 16 Code of Federal Regulations and fireworks classified as UN0336 and UN0337 by the United States Department of Transportation as set forth in Title 49 Code of Federal Regulations. “Consumer fireworks” include firework items commonly known as firecrackers that are single paper cylinders not exceeding one and one-half inches in length excluding the fuse and one-quarter of an inch in diameter and contain a charge of not more than fifty milligrams of pyrotechnic composition, snakes, sparklers, fountains, and cylindrical or cone fountains that emit effects up to a height not greater than twelve feet above the ground, illuminating torches, bamboo cannons, whistles, toy smoke devices, wheels, and ground spinners that when ignited remain within a circle with a radius of twelve feet as measured from the point where the item was placed and ignited, novelty or trick items, combination items, and other fireworks of like construction that are designed to produce the same or similar effects.
Information found on http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol03_Ch0121-0200D/HRS0132D/HRS_0132D-0002.htm
July 25th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
Evonne this is such a great post. I am bookmarking so that if anyone ever asks me about using the sparklers in particular I can show them what you said as a warning of why not to choose a special effect that can be so potentially dangerous.
July 27th, 2009 at 12:04 am
Hey Evonne! What a great post…I love the wedding sparklers-the detail on the packaging is a nice touch.