How much confetti? And paper or petals?

I bought natural petals from shropshire petals (our venue only allowed bio degradable petals so check that)

We bought 4 litres of delphineums( through special offers there are 2xlitres for £20)

We then found a 20% off code which we used too, with postage came to about £35ish. Cannot for the life of me remember the code, a quick google brings up this 10% one though - I will try and find the other one....

When I saw the bags I didnt think they'd go far but yesterday started filling up the little pillow boxes we bought

We we going to fill 30 boxes so there would be one between two people, but infact just on the first litre we filled 15+ boxes, so we can do 60 boxes for everyone.

I did think it was a lot of money, but now that I have it I love it and I'm glad we chose it, smells gorgeous and hopefully will make for some beautiful photos.

The will send you a completely free sample of two colours on the website too!!

We went for Pink Lemonade

Im not providing confetti

I will be getting petals, the venue charges a clean up fee for paper/artificial confetti, I also need to ensure none of my guests bring their own paper confetti, a box costing a guest a couple of quid could end up costing us the better part of £100 pounds!

I want the confetti shoot! So will probably buy way too much ?

I think the foil/acrylic confetti is great for table decoration, especially if your theme doesn't go with dried petals. Definitely check with your venue what is allowed if acrylic confetti is out then the small crystals you get do look fab.

All really helpful posts, thank you everyone.

in our group of friends, we're the first ones to get married so in all honesty, I didn't realise traditionally you wouldn't even provide it. I've seen some bags of biodegradable paper hearts which look like they could do the trick, and wouldn't be too expensive.

Does anyone have an opinion on the acrylic crystals you sometimes see on tables? Do petals look nicer?

I think petals/crystals on the table depends on your theme, they both look fab.

Thats the first time ive come across that one, how do they police this do you have to pay the £100 first and you get it back if no one throws it.

As for crystals or petals on the table I somtimes see both on the table, some times lots of smaller crystals mixed with a view bigger ones (which I think may get taken home) Also what I have seen is rounded ones like the pink gerbra photo and some of these can go up the the size of a half sucked foxes glasser mint

Its in our contract with the venue, as we get a final bill after the wedding I am sure it would get add to that, along with the fee if any one causes damage to any furniture or carpets due to excess alcohol consumption.

My venues main business is conferences, which means the place is much more pristine than some of the venues we looked around, I couldn't believe how tired and worn out some venues looked, our wedding contract reflects the fact they would like to keep it that way!

we are having card cut out confetti for the table decorations; like this;

But in these colours to match our wedding colour scheme...

Obviously the seaside shapes aren't suitable for all weddings but you can get all sorts of shapes and I personally prefer it to crystals or sequin type shapes ;-)