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The Complete Handbook of Confetti
For Event Professionals, Venues, and Businesses That Source, Use, and Resell Confetti
by Alumigogo Books
Chapter 1: Understanding Confetti
Confetti is a decorative material deployed in volume at celebrations—weddings, corporate events, venue launches, product launches, New Year's Eve parties, and sports gatherings. At its simplest, it is small pieces of material designed to be scattered, dropped, or ejected into the air to create a visual and tactile effect of celebration. But that simplicity masks a category with measurable material properties, genuine performance differences, and real consequences for event quality, cost, and logistics.
Most people encounter confetti as a consumer—tossing a handful at a wedding, experiencing it cascade from a cannon at a concert, or sweeping it up afterward and finding traces for weeks. For professionals and businesses who specify and deploy confetti at scale, the reality is more complex. A single event might require 5 to 50 pounds of confetti, deployed across multiple zones, in specific timing sequences, with constraints around cleanup, guest experience, and regulatory compliance. The difference between the right product and the wrong one is the difference between an effect that lands perfectly and one that either disappoints visually or creates unmanageable cleanup, equipment failure, or safety issues.
What Confetti Actually Is
Confetti is manufactured from base materials—primarily paper, plastic, or metallic film—cut or punched into small shapes (circles, rectangles, stars, hearts) and typically ranging from about 0.3 inches to 2 inches in their longest dimension. The smallest confetti, often called "confetti dust" or fine confetti, can be as small as 0.1 inches. Larger pieces are sometimes called "confetti dots" or "confetti