Will they overtake the firework display?

The wedding ceremony was almost over when the newly married Bobby Underwood stepped on a napkin -covered glass to break it, as is Jewish tradition, and everyone “Mazel Tow!” Shouted

But as he and his new wife Cibhan turned back to the corridor, his wedding officials said, “Wait.” Was a surprise.

“All these drones began to grow,” remember Mrs. Underwood. “It was honestly notable, was very heavy – and incredibly emotional for us.”

About 300 drones appeared in the night sky, displaying lights of different colors, and made images chosen to represent the groom and bride.

These included a baseball player who hit a ball – as Mr. underwood is a big baseball fan – and a diamond ring is being placed on a finger.

The couple was married in the new year of New York in 2024 in the state of New York. The mother of Mrs. Underwood arranged a surprise drone show with the help of a couple’s wedding planner – who suggested it as a “wow factor” component of the day. It seemed that there was the desired effect.

“It was just like a shock – ‘Is this really happening right now?”, Smt Underwood says. “I can’t believe that my mother did this for us.”

Drone shows are becoming more popular. Once rareness, they are now visible on occasions from birthday parties and weddings to major sports events. Some theme parks also have resident drone shows that have several nights in a row.

Glastonbury Music Festival performed its first drone show in 2024, which was flown by the UK -based drone show company, Celestial.

And the record-breaking display is pushing the technology to its extent-the biggest drone show in history Done in China Last October. It showed a total of 10,200 drones and broke only one record set last month. So, is it all the end for fireworks?

“They are really beautiful-they are art,” Sally French says, a US-based drone industry commentator, known as a drone girl. She says that drone shows have appeared at baseball games, corporate conferences and even ports to celebrate the launch of cruises.

Drone displays are becoming highly sophisticated, she explains, some drone shows are characterized by thousands of flying devices with some drone shows, allowing them to be shapes or patterns in incredible detail.

“I saw a star wars-theme drone show, where there was a full-on-on-on-on-on-a-on-light fight,” says Ms. French.

A barrier price can be tag, however, with the cost of a drone at approximately $ 300 (£ 220) in the UK, Ms. French says, the drone show software firm, citing industry figures from the software firm SPH engineering: “A 500 drone show will be more than $ 150,000.”

Mrs. Underwood does not have an accurate figure, but estimates that their wedding drones cost thousands of dollars.

The boundary of the sky, really. One of the world’s largest drone show companies has been put on the major display by Skymazic, which is called Patrick O’Moi, co-founder and creative director to the north of $ 1M.

Skymazic shows have taken place in various countries – including 2023 Cachela Music Festival in California.

The company has also done drone shows in the UK, including parts. King’s coronation concertWhich was aired by the BBC.

Mr. O’Moni has worked with fireworks designers and others, designers of similar events. But the drone has revolutionized external public demonstrations, they say.

His company has a fleet of 6,000 custom-designed drones. Every one can reach speed of 10 meters per second. Drone sports are LED lights and batteries that allow for 25 minutes of flight time.

To make them easier to transport, drones are stored in flight cases and are unpacking at places in a giant marquee, before they are kept in a grid pattern, the take-off area, half a meter separate, excluded.

“Once the drone has got its ‘Go’ command [they] Blow the entire show, “Sri O’Soni adds, stating that a single human pilot on the ground controls thousands of equipment at once.

Drone Global Positioning System (GPS) is terrified on data, which prevents them from wandering beyond the allocated flight area. In the event of air, however, they can blow the course. In such cases, they automatically return to a landing spot on the ground, calling Mr. O’Moi.

Fireworks contain a “boom” factor that drones usually do not do, MS French notes. However, Bill Ray, an analyst of market research firm Gartner, says some drones may now launch fireworks for effects like fireworks. For example, a stream of sparks is rained from the bottom of the image created by a group of drones.

In addition, Mr. Ray says that it is very easy to synchronize drone movements with music during a show, which may be another reason behind their appeal. But the cost of the show remains prohibitive for some, and in the part comes down to the fact that laying the equipment and gathering all of them again after performance is a relatively slow, manual process, adds Sri Ray.

Pedro Rosrio Drone show is the chief executive officer of the show animation, a company that performs drones for other companies that supply drones themselves. Mr. Rosario says that a challenging aspect of his work is that with the performance of various rules applying for drone flights, with performance, as these rules differ from the country to the country. For example, England have strict rules compared to the countries of the Middle East, for example, they say.

Mr. Rosario says that the drone show, which can be paired with fireworks, traditional fireworks or even lasers, allow for a large degree of creative freedom: “You can really make something that has an emotional value, it can tell a story.”

In the case of Smt Underwood, it seems that it has worked. Her guests also enjoyed the spectacle, she says: “We have heard praise about our marriage in general – but, continuously, drone shows bring some people as they never expected to see.”