Buyer Guide
The French Event Calendar and What It Means for Your Order Date
Outdoor events concentrate in spring and summer, around the Fête de la Musique on 21 June and Bastille Day on 14 July, and the August holiday period affects both events and business hours. Bulk production typically takes 3–8 days for simple items, 7–15 days for standard custom work and 15–25 days for complex or large pieces, counted from final design approval, with freight and customs on top, so the approval date is the real deadline. Working back from Bastille Day on 14 July, that means approving artwork by late April for a complex piece shipped by sea, or by late May for air freight.
By InflatCraft Product Team • Last updated
The two fixed dates
Outdoor events concentrate in spring and summer, around the Fête de la Musique on 21 June and Bastille Day on 14 July, and the August holiday period affects both events and business hours.
21 June and 14 July sit three weeks apart, which compresses the whole outdoor season into a narrow window. Campaigns built around either are planned a long way ahead, because the production slot in front of them is shared with everyone else's.
August is a gap, and it is predictable
The holiday period affects both events and business hours. Approvals, site visits and responses slow through it, so a September installation planned in July has to assume the gap rather than hope around it.
That also makes August a reasonable production window for autumn work, provided the approvals happened before it started.
Working the dates backwards
Bulk production typically takes 3–8 days for simple items, 7–15 days for standard custom work and 15–25 days for complex or large pieces, counted from final design approval. Freight comes on top: express or air usually 4–15 working days, and sea, rail or truck usually 20–45 days, after dispatch and subject to route and customs Clearance is a separate step.
Working back from Bastille Day on 14 July, that means approving artwork by late April for a complex piece shipped by sea, or by late May for air freight. For the Fête de la Musique three weeks earlier, move each date back accordingly.
Regional conditions change the hardware
Conditions differ between the Atlantic coast, the north and the Mediterranean south, so fixing and shutdown are decided per site. The fixing method and the hardware that ships with the piece follow from that, so the destination site is part of the brief rather than a detail to confirm later.
Say whether the site is paved, grass or sand, and whether it is exposed. Those three answers decide what travels in the box.
What to send so the date is real
The product type, the target size or the constraint that fixes it, the quantity, print-ready artwork with colour references, the destination, indoor or temporary outdoor use, and the on-site date. MOQ is 1 piece for most custom projects, so a first piece can be reviewed before a repeat order.
If the venue is an ERP, say so at the briefing stage: it changes which documents the organiser will need from the supplier.
Verified Specifications
Figures this guide is written against.
Lead time
- Typical: Bulk production typically takes 3–8 days for simple items, 7–15 days for standard custom work and 15–25 days for complex or large pieces, counted from final design approval
- Can be shorter: Repeat orders on an approved design can run shorter
- Freight and import time come on top. Lead time is confirmed per project once artwork, size, quantity and destination are fixed; treat any figure quoted before that as indicative.
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Australian Council and Venue Approvals
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Australian Event Calendar and Timeline
Australia Day, the southern summer and Melbourne Cup Day, converted into artwork approval dates — with the reversed seasons built in.
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