Bubble Help Please

[bjmy1975]

I'm not sure I'm posting this in the right thread, but we would like to have little bottles of bubbles at the church. How many do we need? Do we need one for every person? Half? Not that I don't want people to take them, but we will be tying tags and bows on them and the less we have to do the better for my lack of bow tying abilites. Also, the little bubbles are "highly discouraged" at the reception location, which is not the ceremony site. Any suggestions on how to keep the bubbles out of the reception site? Do we have the attendants handing them out tell people not to bring them in? Or just hope for the best. :)

[yoppersgirl]

I don't know how much help I can be but I'll try. Not a whole lot of people actually take or even accept the bubbles. Here in the Midwest, having a grown man use a minnature bubble wand with bows and pearls is for some reason embarrasing to him. O well :D For my sister's wedding we made way too many, so many that we also used them in a friend's wedding, and we still have plenty left for our wedding if that is what we decide. Luckly we wrapped them in white tulle and white ribbon. (pretty much matches everything) At my friends wedding we had them setting on a table by the exit door of the church...not many people took them until I went around trying to hand them out...and that didn't even work the best. Who knows why. Maybe have your candle lighters or some other younger girls to hand them out.... About keeping them out of the reception place...I have no idea. Kids carried them around all night at both of the weddings that used bubbles. Have you considered bird seed or confetti? What about flower petals, silk or real? My church won't let us use any of these options so be sure to check first. I have heard some people letting butterflies, doves or even balloons go. I'm not big on the balloon idea b/c it is a danger to animals, but it is up to you. I hope this helps....I know my idea is crazy, but read it, i have had no responses...RSPVs and Motorcycle procession. THanks

[bjmy1975]

Thank you. That was what I was afraid of. I honestly dislike the little bubbles. But the church doesn't allow birdseed or rice. And I don't really want to spend the time to clean up rose petals. Our wedding is at 3pm and there is a church service at 5pm. I guess maybe I should ask the wedding planner how bubbles have worked in the past.

[Sarah]

I hope that you have a really short ceremony and that you take all your pictures either somewhere else or before the ceremony. I know this has nothing to do with bubbles, but take it from someone who's already walked down that aisle...you might become crunched for time with that other service so close. Isn't there any way to make yours a little earlier? Good luck!

[bjmy1975]

We are taking all of our pictures in the church before the wedding starting at 12pm. We are suppling food and drink for the wedding party for that time. I've already had the unplesant experience of being in a wedding where they forgot to bring food to the church for the party to eat during pictures. After the ceremony we will be taking pictures outside at the reception site in the gardens and ***pus mall weather permiting. :)

[brownidgirl73]

I don't mean to intrude on the other persons advice but I have heard in the past that bubbles can end up staining your gown. I wanted to use them when I get married but now I am hesitating.I hope that helps with your decision.

[Hawaiian Bride]

Hello everyone. I myself was considering the bubble idea, but I know that people are going to be cheering and yelling at us as we walk out of the church, so I don't think they would even blow a bubble. The last wedding that I was at, (was my soon-to-be brother in-laws), what they did was rang little bells. Granted, they didn't have the ribbon on them, so you can't get out of that one. And we made more than enough for everyone there. And it worked out really nice! Everyone rang them as they ***e out..and they could cheer for them at the same time!! You can find the little bells almost everywhere. Wal-mart, Michaels, even the Dollar Store. Hope that this has helped! Now if only I could find something different for my wedding, I would be happy! -Amber :p

[skittles]

Bubbles can stain nice fabric (like nice dress clothes) and I heard too many horror stories about them staining wedding gowns we didn't do bubbles. WE did the little bells and they were $7.99 for 24. We also did not hand them out to small children (otherwise you would never have heard anything at the reception but ringing bells all night long).

My sister-in-law who did guest book handed out the bells after the ceremony and it was nice to run to the limo to the ringing bells. Yes they were all decorated with a little poem on a slip of paper tied with hunter green ribbon but that took one evening while hubby and I were watching a football game...

Most places won't allow rice, birdseed or confetti these days and at least with the bells you have something more permanent...we had guests tell us they used theirs as Christmas tree decorations and we actually used a few on our own Christmas tree to tell us when the cats were getting into it... :p

[lauralei]

I think bells are a great option. No stains from bubbles, no mess to clean up, and it can be a favor if you're strapped for cash and time.

Butterfly and dove releases are EXPENSIVE...I've heard of too many weddings were they shook dead butterflies out of their little caskets. Do NOT do firecrackers...some friends of ours went to a wedding where they had the little fircracker "poppers" and a couple kids got burned.

Bells are environmentally friendly and gives guests a keepsake...don't woryy about what "someone else did"...weddings after all usually follow a format and unless you have a million bucks yours might resemble a friend's or relative's in some small way...

BTW, WE did bells...not that I am biased or anything but Mom told me about a lady she knew who went to a high-class wedding and had her $350 silk dress RUINED by the bubbles. I didn't want to impose THAT on my guests (let alone my own gown)

[Hawaiian Bride]

I have finally made my decision on what I want for when we come put of the church. I am going to have those poppers with the confetti in them! I love the idea and i have never seen it done. And after the Forth is when I'm going to be buying them (that way I can save some money on them)!!
~*~Amber~*~ :o