How this started
It started the way a lot of small businesses do, which is by accident. Soleil made balloon displays for friends and family, the kind of favor you do because somebody's kid is turning two and you happen to be good at it. Then people who were not friends or family started asking. In 2024 it turned into a business with an LLC, a phone number and a calendar that fills up in May.
What has not changed is that it is still one person doing the work. Nothing gets handed to a crew. The person who answers your message is the same person standing on the ladder at your venue the morning of your party, which is why the messages tend to be direct about what will and will not work.
How she works
Every install starts with your palette and your theme rather than a catalog. Send a saved image, a swatch, the invitation or just a description, and the design gets built to that. Cow print and gingham for a second birthday. Sage and gold for a woodland shower. Orange, purple and black climbing a staircase for Halloween.
The other half of the job is the part clients never see: figuring out how a piece attaches in a room where nothing can touch the walls, timing an install around a venue's two hour access window, and knowing which colors have to be ordered ahead because they are not sitting in a bin somewhere.
Nothing is a template
Every installation is designed around your colors and your theme. Send a reference and that is what gets built, not the closest thing in a package.
The details are the job
Where an arch curves, how tight the clusters sit, whether a centerpiece blocks the person across the table. Those decisions are the difference between decorated and designed.
You do not touch a ladder
Delivery, install and takedown are all included. Nobody is peeling balloons off a ceiling at midnight, and nobody is stuffing them into a car the next morning.
Local, and it matters
Working out of Pleasant Valley means a repair trip is thirty minutes rather than an apology. Balloon work is built on site, so distance is a real constraint.
What the job is actually for
Nobody hires a balloon artist because they need balloons. They hire one because they want the room to feel like an occasion, and because they do not want to spend the day before their own party standing on a chair with a bag of tape.
So the goal is simple: build something worth photographing, put it up without you having to think about it, and take it away when it is over. One less thing on the list for a day that already has too many.
Where to go next
If you are still working out what you need, the services page breaks down the five things we build and what each one suits. The gallery is the fastest way to find something to point at. And if you already know your date, the quote form takes about two minutes.