Graduation season is our favorite kind of busy. For a few weeks every spring, every other call is a proud parent trying to throw the right kind of party for a kid who just finished thirteen years of school. This one, up in Corinth, came with a twist we had not done before, and we loved it.
It was a high school graduation party, Class of 2025. But the grad had one more thing he wanted folded in: his love for Lamar Jackson. So we took some creative liberty and ran with it.
What they had in mind
The family wanted a graduation setup, the kind with a big “Congrats Grad” backdrop and balloons framing it. They also wanted it to feel like his party, and for this kid that meant Lamar Jackson, the Baltimore Ravens quarterback he has watched and idolized for years.
We could have gone literal with a jersey and a number 8, but we thought there was something more grown-up in the room. Lamar plays in Ravens purple, black, and gold, and those happen to read as a sharp, almost regal graduation palette on their own. So that became the plan: chrome purple, rich gold, and black, a color story that says “Mr. Big Things just graduated” and quietly says “Ravens” to anyone who knows. The family already had the black Class of 2025 backdrop, and these colors framed it perfectly.
How we built it
We built it as an organic garland wrapped around the backdrop in an arch, fuller and heavier across the top and cascading down both sides toward the floor.
The palette was chrome purple, metallic gold, and black, mixed so no single color took over. We anchored the garland with 16-inch latex, the big rounded balloons that give an organic install its weight, ran 11-inch balloons through the middle, and tucked 5-inch ones into the gaps so the whole thing read as one continuous, glossy sweep rather than separate clusters. The chrome finish on the purple and gold was the move here. It catches the light and photographs rich and deep, which is exactly what those Ravens colors want to do.
Then we set two gold foil starbursts at the upper corners of the backdrop, where they framed the “Class of 2025” lettering and threw the whole thing into proper celebration mode. We built and installed it right in the family’s living room, with a game already on the TV behind us, which felt about right for a party built around a football player.
A small note on the Lamar Jackson of it all
Here is why we think Lamar is a pretty good patron saint for a graduation.
When he showed up to the 2018 NFL Combine, plenty of people wanted him to switch positions. He was told to work out as a wide receiver, that maybe quarterback was not his path. He did not budge. “I’m a quarterback,” he said, and added that wherever he went, it would be as a quarterback, because that was strictly his position. He bet on himself and his own path, and a league MVP award later, it is safe to say he was right.
That is not a bad thing for a brand-new graduate to carry out the door. People will have opinions about what you should be. You get to decide your position.
The reveal
When the garland was up and the starbursts were set, the backdrop went from a banner taped to a wall to an actual moment, the kind of corner where a graduate stands in his cap with his family and the photos turn out great. Purple, gold, and black, his colors, his guy, his graduation.
A backdrop wall for a kid who just pulled off something big, in the colors of the player who taught him to bet on himself. We were glad to be the ones who got to build it.
Want one for your grad?
Corinth is part of our service area, and graduation parties are some of the most rewarding work we do all spring. What we built here was our custom event balloon decor service taken full-tilt: an organic garland in a custom palette, foil starbursts, and a backdrop framed to be the photo spot of the party.
If your grad has a team, a player, a school, or a whole aesthetic they want their party built around, tell us the date and the idea and we will design it in their colors. Jersey number optional. Bragging rights included.
Celebrating in Corinth, Lewisville, Flower Mound, Coppell, Grapevine, Colleyville, or Keller? You’re inside our service area, with pickup in Coppell and delivery and on-site setup everywhere else. Congratulations to the Class of 2025 grad, and flock on.
