gandelff

Sorry if this has already been posted( i have done a basic search
I am wanting the presentation of my rocket payloads to be more visual ally pleasing , I use a varied amount of payload pots ranging from bough paper hemi's and semi spheres to 5/8" inner id tubes,toilet roll tubes,sealed 35mm cartridge cases, the thing i have problems with is, they tend to blasted out from the pots through ruptures in the payload case instead of the join in the hemi/end cap, now am i sealing the whole thing too tight and with too much tape and 3 strip sealer or is there something i'm not doing to the payload pot itself.
As standard i use a 191mm length 4 mm wall thick 3/4"/19mm inner id tube and use the 1lb rocket kit from wolter pyro tubes in the us, this combined with my ball milled bp provides super fast and work horse motors and top fused gets payload ignition 9 times out of ten, its that tidying up that i'm after.
the payloads are normally a fuse through the base ,then coated sugar puffs in bp and then stars on top of the ,then i have a small piece of tissue paper with a couple grams of benzolift and a gram of fp in the middle, wrap it into a ball and make a small hole for the fuse to sit on top, after that i add the second half of my pot which is either stars and filling, when joined i seal the cardboard sphere with masking tape,if theres harder to ignite stars in the pot i tape top and bottom and then 3 strip paste them( i find some green stars are harder to ignite), is it this last process that i'm doing wrong,
do the stars have to be close as they can to the join of the sphere or at opposite ends, ?

hi everyone,what an intresting forum and website,
as the title says, i am getting married in september in bonnie scotland and my missus has given me the one thing she feels she can trust me with to do with the wedding-the firework display!!!(prpoper man job and yes i am so not pc!!)

i thought at first about black cat one touch box sets but to be honest after a little more in depth research theres more to this than i thought no there not what i want.
so i looked at sites and forums as this and well got totally flumaxed at bthe complexity of fireworks in general.

So heres what i need and my criteria

£500 budget
the venue have got permission/licence(dunno which is there a differance ? they own the land were having the reception on)
they will light the display for us from a pier(concrete not wood)

i like the look of the mortar displays,the star shaped cossack thing really impresses me..

now heres the questions,

i need alot of bang for bucks,but want class rather than crass,
around a 8 minute display with various effects ending in an almighty finish
user friendly in set up and initiation
safe to handle by the end users

is this a realistic scenario so far.now i dont know how expensive this stuff is to make,setup and initiate so please bear with it if i ask mundane questions which have been asked before.

i would get into this as a hobby myself ,however it seems very complex and a tadge on the dangerous side hobby,maybe when the weddings over who knows?

do any of you guys sell your wares on here that could give me some pointers,idea's and suggestions