{"id":1002,"date":"2009-08-18T09:30:34","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T08:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.weddingdates.ie\/blog\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2023-06-14T13:07:26","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T12:07:26","slug":"flying-chinese-lanterns-spectacular-wedding-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/flying-chinese-lanterns-spectacular-wedding-display\/","title":{"rendered":"Fly Me To The Moon! Spectacular Chinese Lanterns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently came across a new irish website selling <strong>gifts and gadgets<\/strong> and their <strong>Flying\u00a0Chi<\/strong><strong>nese Lanterns<\/strong> caught my eye, perfect for an outdoor\/marquee wedding and what a great way to get your guests involved and send up a wish for your future wedded happiness!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/weddingdates-wp-ie.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/2009\/08\/chinese-lanterns1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1006\" src=\"https:\/\/weddingdates-wp-ie.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/2009\/08\/chinese-lanterns1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Chinese Lanterns <\/strong>will fly for up to 20 minutes and can rise over a mile in the sky \u2013 where they will still be visible all around. \u00a0Traditionally used in Chinese and Thai celebrations, these are a beautiful and fascinating way to light up the sky &#8211; and (my favourite part)\u00a0It was believed that wishes written on lanterns would rise up to the heavens and come true. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>A quieter, gentler alternative to fireworks, flying lanterns are the safe, simple and perfect way to create an amazing visual display in the sky, a really memorable addition to any wedding. \u00a0See below for a video of them being launched at a wedding.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qKqz3yS2jNI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you want <strong>Flying Chinese L<\/strong><strong>anterns<\/strong> for your own wedding, check out GStore.ie &#8211; they will ship them anywhere in Ireland and go from \u20ac25.00 for a pack of 10 to \u20ac300.00 for 130 lanterns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recently came across a new irish website selling gifts and gadgets and their Flying\u00a0Chinese Lanterns caught my eye, perfect for an outdoor\/marquee wedding and what a great way to get your guests involved and send up a wish for your future wedded happiness! The Chinese Lanterns will fly for up to 20 minutes and can rise over a mile in the sky \u2013 where they will still be visible all around. \u00a0Traditionally used in Chinese and Thai celebrations, these are [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[2894],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wedding-details"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84184,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions\/84184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}