Balloons are flexible bags normally filled with gas or air. Usually, balloons are purely decorative. However, balloons are also used for specific purposes. Interestingly, early balloons were made of dried animal bladders. Nowadays, the decorative balloons industry has evolved a lot. Balloons have become one of the most popular items to have at any function. Foil and latex balloons, and even personalized balloons, are used to decorate homes or hired venues to help people celebrate marriages, anniversaries, birthdays and other functions and give the room a party feel. Schools and businesses even race them or release them into the air for product launches or store openings. The professional balloon retailers help clients decorate the venue of their functions with balloons and offer a massive selection of balloons, including foil balloons, latex balloons, wedding balloons, Stag and Hen Party balloons, balloons in a box, printed balloons in a number of themes and birthday ages, novelty and modelling balloons and personalised balloons. Normally, lots of possibilities exist for personalized balloons. You can use one of retailer`s custom logos for some extra cost or even design your own balloons using a photograph or printing custom text in gold or silver ink. However, you should bear in mind that due to the rubber stretching, inflated balloons often look a different colour, usually paler or more opaque, than when they are deflated. You can even provide the retailer with your own artwork as JPEGs, GIFs, TIFs, MS Word documents and bitmaps etc, to be printed on your balloons. You can also draw something in pen & ink or do a scraperboard picture and give the scanned image to the retailer. However, the file should be in good resolution with enough detail. Balloons come with a number of accessories including balloon ribbons, balloon weights, balloon pumps, balloon nets, sticks & cups and Helium tanks.