A couple celebrates with family and friends with a confetti canon display on their wedding day. They smile as they walk through the colourful confetti shower while guests take photographs.

If you follow us on social media you probably already know how much we love confetti.

It’s one of the main ways that all of your guests get to be truly involved in an iconic moment of your day. A good confetti photograph is an absolutely amazing spread in your wedding album. It doesn’t come without challenges and a great confetti moment definitely does not happen by accident. Here are our top tips and ideas to make sure you get it just right.

A bride and groom kiss outside the church after their wedding. Confetti is being thrown by friends and family gathered around them.

Timing

The best time to be covered in confetti is right after your ceremony. If you’ve got a handy-dandy master of ceremonies, we’ll ask them to direct everyone outside to wherever we’re allowed to do it. If not, we’ll probably ask you to lead everyone outside, people will follow you like sheep on your wedding day after all and it saves our voices.

This is the most natural part of the day for confetti, everyone expects to be throwing it as a post-ceremony celebration. Plus, doing it straight away means people don’t have a chance to get a drink. Meaning more hands for confetti throwing and no risk of getting a drink thrown over you instead of petals if someone gets confused and excited. It also allows for more people to be involved, as they won’t have had a chance to disappear to different parts of your venue, and they will do that believe us.

A newly married couple kiss in a confetti shower of natural dried flower petals. They stand in the tent where they had their wedding ceremony.

Location

Generally we’re going to be outside, most venues get upset if you make a big mess for them to clean up inside after all. This does mean that your confetti might be weather dependent. A little bit of rain is fine, we don’t rust after all, but a downpour might not be ideal. Confetti doesn’t fly in the rain, guests don’t really like being taken outside in the rain and our cameras aren’t really meant to be underwater. Altogether it adds up to you covered in soggy petals, a lot of damp guests with mardy faces and a couple of broken cameras.

The best locations for confetti are fairly sheltered from the wind, with a nice backdrop if we can manage that. Places that work well are usually just outside the main doors of a venue, the lit up entrance of a tipi, or against a barn wall or door. The venue wedding coordinators are likely to be able to help out with some ideas but if all else fails, we’ll find somewhere for you.

A bride and groom walk between two lines of their guests while confetti is thrown over them. They are laughing as the confetti is covering them and people around are smiling.

Direction

We mean directions for your guests, not the direction people are throwing, but that’s important too and we’ll come on to that.

Normally, we are super laid back photographers. We capture moments as they happen, with as little interference as we can manage. Confetti is the only time we get a little bit bossy. You only really get one chance to get confetti photos. If guests are in the wrong place, or don’t have enough confetti in their hands, it may not turn out as spectacularly as it could.

This is the point when Becky usually starts talking with her hands, she gets your guests into two lines or a cute semicircle around you both. We make sure everyone has got a TON of confetti in their hands - more is always better. Then we explain exactly when and how they should be throwing it. That should hopefully avoid getting a fist full of compressed confetti in your eye.

This is also the moment we give you guys a little direction, too. We’ll let you know where to walk, when we want you to stop and what to do when you do. After that we give you a countdown and let you all have fun with it.

A groom dips his bride and kisses her outside the doors of their wedding venue. Confetti covers them as she reaches her arm out to celebrate their wedding.

The Confetti Itself

It’s pretty standard now that venues will ask that you use natural or biodegradable confetti, and there are plenty of ways to create a gorgeous eco-conscious photograph.

No matter what confetti you use, make sure the pieces are nice and big. At least as big as a penny seems to work, but bigger is always better. This way they’ll show up really nicely in photos and not look like bits of grit. Plus, try to keep the colours a mix of light and dark, all light or all dark can get a little lost in the details of your suits, guests and flowers.

If you’re looking for recommendations, check out ECOBRIDE (https://www.theecobride.co.uk/). They sell gorgeous natural petal confetti, in personalised biodegradable and compostable packets! We get our compostable stickers from them - we love them! Their ethos is very much in line with our own, and they do not use single use plastic at all in their packaging or postage.

A newly married couple step out of their wedding venue and are greeted by friends and family throwing biodegradable confetti. The bride laughs as the shaped confetti rains down on them.

Also check out Yorkshire Confetti (https://www.facebook.com/yorkshireconfetti/) who is a fantastic local confetti creator, or Adamapple (https://www.adamapple.co.uk/) who create some very interesting types of confetti (their snow confetti looks amazing!)

Another option for buying your own is confetti cannons! Confetti cannons are a great way to get a ton of confetti in the air with little to no effort. They do require a little bit more instruction, and trusting people not to point them at people’s faces, but they create absolutely stunning photos! There are plenty of biodegradable options out there, Shropshire Petals (https://www.shropshirepetals.com/) do a great one filled with natural petals, then the cardboard tube can be recycled.

If you’re crafty, you can even try making your own! Drying petals is easy to do, and means you get the exact colour combination you want. Just make sure to keep the petals as whole as possible. Or you could buy a stamp and stamp out your confetti from autumn leaves.

No matter what confetti you decide to use, we’ll be on hand to help you get it right.
So smile and try not to flinch. It’s just petals after all, they’re not chucking bricks at you… probably.