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Wedding Wishes Released into the Sky
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009Here is an awesome way to end your wedding or special event. Wish Lanterns
Also known as khoom fay, sky lanterns, glo lanterns, chinese lanterns or thai lanterns. How pretty would it be at the end of the night, just before you and your new spouse leave to have all the guests come outside, whisper their wedding wishes inside the lanterns, light them and release them into the dark night’s sky?
These wish lanterns are so pretty and actually look quite large. I’m ordering a sample to see for myself. The have a wick that is lit and then it floats up, up and away into the air like little hot air balloons. The wick burns for about 12-15 minutes, at which point, they will fall back down to the earth. According to their website, they are 100% biodegradable.
The company that sells them, Wishlanterns.com is from Texas and does ship to Canada. Of course, there would be the currency exchange, customs and shipping costs…but they are so pretty! It almost seems a shame to let them float away!
I’ll bet these would look even more amazing in the winter here in Canada. The cold weather would make the lanterns fly even higher.
I’ll let you know once I get one…
Happy planning!
Where To Find Chinese Paper Lanterns
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
About 2 and a half months ago, I was looking for some colourful Chinese paper lanterns for a client. She wanted to decorate the reception hall ceiling with them. Maybe it was a little to early for most suppliers to start thinking about ‘patio’ type lanterns, (but they never think its too early after Halloween to start dragging out the Christmas stuff!) what with the snow still sorta’ hanging around then.
I looked everywhere, only to find really REALLY expensive ones or ones that looked like their colours have already faded in the sun.
Now that I’m not looking for them, I have found 2 stores that have them – and in great colours too and reasonable prices. The first store was the Fabricland Decor Centre Elite on Fairview in Burlington (which, coincidentally, has tonnes of great decor items at really good prices). I’d been into the Fabricland there tonnes of times, and never really noticed the Decor Centre. Not sure what made me notice it today, but I’m glad I did.
The other store was Jysk (which I learned today is pronounced ‘yi-sk’ – but up until today I seem to always call it ‘jinx-k’). This store is also on Fairview in Burlington. They are offering 8″ lanterns ($4.99) and 14″ lanterns ($9.99) and actaully have battery powered lights in them and and have variety of colours…
I thought I’d shared this in case you were looking for these types of lanterns.
Happy planning!