So you’ve just got married and you want your friends and family to crowd around you and hurl petals or small bits of paper at you? Well then you’ve got a confetti run on your hands. Here are some tips to make it awesome.

Check if you’re allowed to

Your first port of call is to see if your wedding venue or church allows confetti. Some places have rules on which type of confetti you can use, where you can throw it etc, find this out first and then plan it into your day. (If you can’t do confetti then you might want to consider a sparkler run later in the evening!)

Get organised

A good confetti run takes a little planning. You’ll likely do the confetti just after you’ve been married, but you’ll need to get everyone in a nice couple of lines before you can run the gauntlet.

Church weddings. For these, you can either duck out another entrance, wait in the church, or double back through the line afterward. The important bit here is to allow time for all of the guests to exit the church and get ready for you!

Venue weddings. Usually, there is another room or space you can wait in, this is also a really nice moment to take for just the two of you. Then when everyone is ready you can come back outside and get pelted with petals.

You wedding co-ordinator will help plan all of this, but for the actual line top and run you’ll need a few people on hand.

Confetti giver-outers. Ask either bridesmaids or groomsmen to head out first and get the confetti ready to hand out to people, then they can form the start of the lines. Your photographer will then aid in this and create a tunnel of people.

Keep the lines nice and tight, so that you’ll see your guests in the photos.

Buy ALL of the confetti

Get so much confetti, then buy some more. Always have loads, if that means people have two handfuls to launch your way then great!

Lots of confetti will make your photos look awesome.

Choose the colour mix

Paper or petals make sure the colours you choose reflect the wedding.

This can either be to tie in directly with your colour scheme, or for a more subtle approach such as natural petals for a countryside wedding, or clean white for a city church wedding.

Take a look at Pinterest, get ideas and get buying confetti!

Throw confetti up, not at

Pro-tip for your guests is when throwing the confetti to throw it up so it falls on top of you, rather than directly at you like some sort of leafy grenade.

This will make the photos look great plus the added bonus of not having a mouth full of confetti. Win.

Eyes forward, have fun

Last tip, hold hands, look forwards / at your guests, don’t walk too fast, and of course HAVE FUN!

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I hope those few tips have been somewhat useful, do comment below if I’ve missed anything or if you have any wedding / confetti related questions!

Cheers,
Col-

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