Opting for wedding lanterns over the more traditional celebratory accessory, fireworks, is a unique wedding idea. Launching a host of lanterns off a cliff top, and causing emergency services to send out helicopters and lifeboats to investigate the situation, is a whole different ballgame…
This is apparently what has been going on in recent months. In Orkney and Somerset recently, sightings of sky lanterns caused coastguards to alert emergency services, resulting in a painstaking search while the teams tried to find the origins of the mysterious lights, mistaking them for distress signals. It would seem that wedding lanterns bear a resemblance to more than just UFOs…Flare guns too apparently.
If you’re planning an al fresco wedding and intend to launch some wedding lanterns, by all means do. Go crazy. Launch one hundred if the mood takes you. Just remember a few things:
1- Always take care when lighting the fuel cell
2- Make sure there are no trees nearby
3- Check the wind direction (making sure it’s not too windy of course)
And do warn the slightly visually impaired coast guards beforehand. Unless you want a very unique wedding that is!
Wedding Wish Lanterns is London’s original supplier of wedding lanterns, one of the most unique wedding ideas. To contact us either email sales@weddingwishlanterns.co.uk or call 0845 500 1215
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