How To Have A Successful Sparkler Exit At Your Reception – 7 Tips
December 23, 2021
Having a successful sparkler exit at your wedding reception can be tricky but magical. There are a few major keys to doing this correctly. You can do whatever you want, but I have been to enough of these to know what works. Here are 7 tips to make a sparkler exit work for you and your wedding photographer.
How To Have A Successful Sparkler Exit – Here Are The Steps
Be Organized
Have a designated person in charge of handing out sparklers, another person to collect dead sparklers, and several people to light the sparklers. Trying to daisy-chain the lighting (from one sparkler to the next) won’t work in time. Try to light as many sparklers at one time as possible. You want all the large sparklers to burn for 2 minutes simultaneously.
Quality
Buy good quality, long sparklers. Regular Fourth of July ones from the grocery store aren’t good enough. Good quality lighters are important as well.
Organize The Guests For A Successful Sparkler Exit
Line everyone up in two single-file parallel lines close together – a blob of humanity will not work and may be dangerous. As the photographer, I like to take charge of organizing the exit. People tend to stay too far apart, this negating the sparkler exit tunnel.
Light The Sparklers Quickly
Once the lighting begins, have the people with lit sparklers help light the people next to them. This will make the lighting go quickly as long as enough people are in the initial group. If people at both ends light at the same time, it will increase the speed at which everyone can get their sparklers lit.
Communicate The Plan
Have a plan in place for what you are going to do. Are you going to run, walk, throw your hands in the air, kiss, dip, and more? I recommend walking and throwing hands in the air. Once you are near the photographer, kiss for a few seconds then, maybe dip each other. Go back and run through again!
Be Ready – It’ll Start And Finish Quickly
Be ready to enjoy your sparkler tunnel as soon as it is lit. Usually, wedding couples get a chance to go down and back two times before burnout occurs.
Enjoy It And Your Sparkler Exit Will Be A Success
You only get one exit, so make it count!
