Banner Programs

We carry a full line of Commercial quality banners on the website www.allamericanchristmas.com
Banners are great for cities, downtowns, parking lots, businesses, or parks. We offer a wide variety of banner styles as well, Spring/Summer, Fall, Winter, Christmas, All Seasonal styles, Patriotic. We also can have banners custom made with your own design ideas, our manufacturer can change just about everything about the banners except for their preset sizes.
Here is what is customizable:

• Image Position, Rotation, Size, and Cropping
• Change Color of Art Elements and Backgrounds
• Text Alterations
• Mix and Match Stock Design

Our banners are Digital Printed on heavy duty 18 oz vinyl or Screen Printed on Marine acrylic fabrics. These high quality banners will last many seasons with proper storage!

We also carry all the mounting hardware, our banner brackets are perfect for securing banners to light poles, street lamps, or anywhere else you'd like to start a banner program.

Here are some facts about our brackets:

• Certified to 80 MPH Wind loads
• Member SGIA
• Preferred choice of banner installation professionals
• One bolt "Sure-Lock" tension adjustment
• Rust-proof cast aluminum
• Easily custom colored
• Solid fiberglass arms

Visit http://www.allamericanchristmas.com/shopsite/banners.asp to see all our banners and email us if you're interested in getting a quote on banners! Thanks

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Zach

Hanging Lights for a Wedding

We get asked how to hang lights fairly often, and seeing as how most lights sold during this part of the year are used for Weddings and parties I thought I'd give some helpful tips for hanging lights!

If your venue has a drop ceiling then you can very easily hang lights! Simply use some string or zip ties to secure the wire to the metal frame. The image below shows how you can simply loop around the frame of a metal drop ceiling.
If the walls of the venue are drywall or fairly smooth you can use the Command adhesive hooks available at any local department store. They can easily hold a light string so long as you use a couple hooks to disperse the weight.Another option for curtain lights is making a frame. This can be done with wood or PVC. Just use two upright 2x4s or PVC pipes with some sort of base, connect the two with a horizontal piece, attach lights, then overlay sheer fabric to hid the frame. You can always paint the frame white so it's hidden better behind the fabric.

If you'd like to browse all the lights we recommend for weddings, click here!

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Zach

Using Net lights for Curtain light alternative.

Net lights are a style of mini light and LED light string used, typically, to lay on a large area for quick coverage. Many people use net lights for covering bushes and shrubs around their homes.
We are always trying to help people think up clever ways to use our products and recently we were helping a bride with an alternative to curtain lights for her wedding. We suggested hanging net lights behind sheer fabric.

Hanging Curtain lights is nothing new, and I've touched on it quite a few times, but not many people know the Net light trick! Below is a image of how a hung set of Net lights will look. You can hang them on a frame or on a wall for great effect! Our net lights come in 4 foot by 6 foot for our LED nets, and our mini light nets come 4 foot by 6 foot and 4 foot by 8 foot. Between those two size options you should be able to cover a large area with very little work, just hang, let the wire relax so the net looks good, and you're done!


Click here to check out our Net Lights!
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Zach

Wedding decorations with Battery Powered LED lights

Now, I touch on this subject just about every other blog, BUT there are just so many wedding happening I thought I could lend some more insight. Weddings, likes so many of us know, don't always happen in churches. They can be in a field, large civic centers, plantations, homes, just about anywhere people can gather can be the venue for a wedding. While all of these sound like great places for a couples "special day" they can sometimes have a definite lack in the number of power outlets. Let's face it, fields usually don't have power outlets for a P.A. and with christmas lights beginning to become a staple at weddings we want to show that you don't need a wall outlet to light up your event...just a couple AA batteries.

Battery powered LED sets are great. There, I said it, they are awesome. They give you the same brightness and look as sets that plug into a wall but they can just for over a day on 2 AA batteries. We carry a variety of bulb styles for battery powered LED sets, Concave, Short M5, and M5. All of these work great, and we've had 1 set break on a customer in the 4+ years we've been selling them.

• Concave - Our favorite, they have a simple style bulb that has the widest viewing angle, bright colors, and have a small bulb.
  
• M5 - The look of classic mini lights only faceted. Simple long skinny bulbs that work great and add the perfect touch of light to a decoration.
• Short M5 - Just like M5s just with a much shorted length.

All of these Battery powered sets work great for any application and would be the perfect addition to your special day. Click here to view these LEDs By the Set or
By the Case

New Music Christmas Light Controller!

Holiday Lightshow Music controller and Timer with Speaker and 10 Songs
Includes: Control box with approx. 4' power cord & Speaker with approx. 15' attached wire. 2 Ground stakes

Product Features:
Energy Saver Timer Settings
On
Off
Dawn to Dusk (plays from sunset to sunrise)
or 2, 4, 6 or 8 hours (starts at sunset and plays for the statement amount of hours)

Easy-to-Use Control Box Function Settings
All On: all the connected items are on
Song Loop: plays all the preprogrammed songs
AUX: unit is on standby unless an MP3 player is connected
Effects: lights are on, but sound is off
Song Skip: moves to the next song 10 preprogrammed holiday songs

Built In Song List:
Deck The Halls
Oh, Come All Ye Faithful
Nutcracker Medley
HARK! The Herald Angels Sing
We Wish You A Merry Christmas
Bell Carol
Jingle Bells
Christmas Medley
Religious Medley
God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman

6 built-in power outlets; each rated for 1.25 amps - just plug in the lightshow items and you're done Replaceable 8A 125V UL fuse - helps guard against overloading

MP3 player compatible - customize your holiday lightshow experience by playing your own music; just turn the setting to AUX and plug in your own MP3 player

Control box measures approx. 10"H x 10"W x 5" deep
Speaker measures approx. 8-1/4"H x 5"W x 5-1/2" deep
ETL listed Made of plastic and electronics Runs on AC power

For indoor/outdoor use