Free fireworks displays and choreographed to music to take place at Bournemouth Pier and Poole Quay.
Primrose the cat is back home after being found on a Maidstone industrial estate seven months later.
Latest initiative will tackle anti-social and excessive year-round use of fireworks at celebrations.
No one was harmed in the incident, which saw motorists treated to an early Fourth of July show.
The display over Douglas Bay is set to begin at 23:00 BST with vantage points on the promenade.
Residents say a wedding fireworks display "sounded like bombs" and could be heard nine miles away.
Fireworks were kept in rusty containers, posing a risk of sparks and explosions, a council says.
People living in South Cave say displays at three wedding venues are frightening their pets.
Earlier this week, an explosion at a firecracker factory in neighbouring state Tamil Nadu left at least 25 dead.
