Calculating How Many Sparklers to Buy

Buying items for you wedding can be either really fun or really stressful, but things like wedding favors for your guests tend to lean to the fun side of things. Showing your guests how much you appreciate their love and support is one of the most thought-provoking and interesting parts of most wedding planning projects. However, if you’re like a growing number of couples in the United States, you are considering having wedding sparklers at your celebration and have no idea how many to buy. Fortunately, there are a few key tricks to calculating how many sparklers to buy for your wedding based on how you intend to use them.

If you’re planning to use the sparklers as wedding favors and just leave them at each guest’s seat for their amusement, the amount of time they need to burn isn’t very important. 10 inch sparklers are perfect for this purpose because you can get a lot of them for cheap and they’ll each burn for 30-45 seconds. Though the actual burn time will vary between sparkler brands, most of them will burn about the same duration because they are the same length.

If you’re planning on taking a few pictures with your sparklers, buying something a little larger like 20 inch sparklers is advisable. They’ll burn twice as long as the 10 inchers to give you time to light them and take some good pictures, but they are also still very affordable and won’t burn for such a long time that they become a nuisance.

If you’re planning to use your sparklers for a grand entrance or exit, which is their most common use, the 36 inch varieties are usually the best choice. They burn for over 4 minutes each and are much brighter than any of the other size sparklers available. This will not only make them show up better in the pictures, but also allows you to get them all lit and handed out before the grand entrance or exit begins.

As you can see, depending on your intended use, calculating how many sparklers to buy for your ceremony is actually pretty simple. Just think about how many people plus how long they need to burn and you’ll be able to order the perfect amount for your needs.