A Very Stylish Wish Lantern
Sky Lanterns- or Wish Lanterns- come in all different shapes and sizes. Some companies offer the large cylindrical shaped ones. Personally I think these look a little lumbering, as though they wouldn’t float very gracefully. They also look more like the sorts of lanterns you’d have hanging from the ceiling your spare room, or box room. Other sellers of lanterns will give you the options of purchasing novelty ones. For a childs birthday party, you may be able to get hold of a lantern with giant mickey- mouse ears, or a big nemo one with fins perhaps, dyed a garish orange. Doesn’t this defeat the whole point of a wish lantern? They should be beautiful and spectacular- a stylised ritual launching- not brash and bright. You’d scare the neighbours if mickey mouses were launched en masse isnto the night sky. When you purchase a wish lantern you should be thinking of style and grace. You should be imagining, what would Princess Di have launched at a party she was throwing, not, what would Jordan opt for. At www.wishlantern.co.uk the lanterns are the essence of grace itself. They are a lovely tulip shape, all come in white and in the same size. No so big that they are clumsy, and not so small that they wouldn’t be seen without the aid of a magnifying glass. Perfect.
