just wondering if any one can help me,i want to try and create a champagne balloon arch as i have never tried one before i have bought the small champagne bottle to practise and some 5" clear balloons,i sort of think i have an idea how to do it but im wondering if someone can prompt me in the right direction
                    many thanks  

Hi Tina

Yes, we can certainly help, if you can give a bit more info.  That's what we're here for!    

A piece I've seen a few times is the qualatex 'celebrate' champagne bottle foil with clusters of clear balloons coming from the top and arching over to the qualatex champagne glass foil - is this kind of what you're thinking?

Assuming it is, the easiest way to do this is to build 2 columns of 4 or 5 balloon clusters (in whatever colour you want the supporting columns to be, and whatever height you need these base columns to be) and attach the air filled bottle to the top of one column and the air filled glass to the top of the other.  You can then attach the clusters (representing the bubbles) to each other by the necks of the balloons, stretching from the tops of the bottle and glass and sizing your clusters of clears such that they form the arch when attached to each other.  You can do this by making the duplet at the bottom slightly less inflated than duplet at the top, so it natuarally forms the curve of the arch.  If you were using 11" clears as the bubbles, however, I'd definitely suggest using helium and some line to attach, rather than attaching quads together.

I hope this kind of makes sense (I know it's tricky without pictures) but please shout if you need a hand and I'll try to get an example picture together for you of what I mean.

If I've misunderstood what you're trying to do, again please just shout.

--Neil

Thanks for your reply but I'm on about an inflatable champagne bottle not a foil I've seen then on the Internet just wasnt sure how to do it,I was thinking something along the lines it attaching some nylon line to the bottle and starting with small bubbles at the top of the bottle and get bigger as it goes on then attaching a weight to the bottom.

Hi that is exactly how you do it 4balloon clusters on line slowly increasing the size of the balloons.

Can you postcard link so we can see what you mean. Always easier to give advice that way.

You can modify this #212 New Year's Eve Toast, go to Betallic.com and register for the B Gallery.  There are instructions for the glass and the bottle, you will just have to change things up to make it into an arch.

Here is a pic of one I did the way you explained above.
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Thank you all for your relies and pictures,really appreciate them.

why use the plastic cheap bottle.. with a pole and base and a few green and gold balloons you can create your own balloon bottle - so much more professional

Pam
xx