Butterfly Wedding Themes

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Butterfly wedding themes can create a truly memorable and colorful experience for both the bride and groom.

At a butterfly wedding dozens of butterflies are set free at the end of the wedding ceremony. This is a fantastic alternative to the traditional throwing of rice or confetti.

Butterfly wedding themes can be a unique way to celebrate this very special day.

Butterfly releases can be wonderful and even classy, as butterflies make for wonderful wedding pictures, and are harmless to the environment, besides giving a beautiful array of colors at the wedding ceremony.

You can purchase the butterflies from any butterfly farm; you can find these online.

After you have placed your order, the butterflies are air expressed to you overnight so that they arrive on your wedding day, but do check with the supplier for details.

The butterflies are packaged carefully to ensure that they are shipped safely and so that no damage occurs to them.

The butterflies are shipped in a specially designed box with the perfect living environment.

At the ceremony, once the package is opened and the butterflies are exposed to the light and heat, they will come to life and fly away! It is as easy at that.

Location

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Butterfly wedding themes can be held anywhere. But if you have a butterfly farm close by see if you can have your ceremony there.

How special would this be amongst the beautiful butterflies all flying around, having them landing on to your hair, then to your flowers and your guests it would be a wonderful sight and should give plenty of good photo opportunities.

 

Invitations and Stationery for Butterfly Wedding Themes

Hand Painted Butterfly

Butterfly invitations will give your guests an indication of the type of wedding that you will be having.

You can find butterfly invitations on the internet, in specialist magazines, have them printed up professionally or print them yourself, or get them for free.

We have a few butterfly invitations on our Free Printable Wedding Invitations page with instructions on how to print and make them.

Wedding Attire

You don't need to wear the typical white wedding dress if you don't' want to. Perhaps choose a pastel color for the bride and bridesmaids such as light blue, or pale pink.

The bride's gown detailed with tiny beaded butterflies and crowned with butterflies in her hair.

The bridesmaids could wear butterfly jewelery and carry a butterfly shaped purse, on the backs of their gowns could be a butterfly shaped bow.

 

 

Ceremony and Reception Decorations

Butterfly Place Card Holder

Your ringbearer can carry your wedding rings on a Butterfly Dreams Square Ring Pillow. 

Imagine as you enter into a room with decorated tables and chairs and a stage for music.

On each of the guests tables are white table clothes and each table has some type of butterfly detail, it could be as simple as a picture of the bride and groom in a Butterfly Themed Picture Frames, Butterfly Candle Holders or even a floral centerpiece with butterfly decorations or Butterfly Place Card Holders.

The tables could be illuminated by butterfly tea lights which are inexpensive and create a soft romantic glow.

On the backs of the chairs a butterfly sits delicately. The napkins are decorated with a butterfly napkin ring, and each place setting is marked with a matching butterfly place card.

Wedding Favors

Butterfly Favor Boxes

Thank your guests with a butterfly wedding favor perhaps it could be

 

 

 

Butterfly Wedding Cake

Butterfly Cupcake Wrappers

Your wedding cake could be decorated with delicate butterflies in vibrant colors dancing around the cake; these could be made from sugar paste, rice paper or even feathers.

Butterfly decorated cupcakes can be served in place of the traditional wedding cake.

Sitting next to the cake could be bottles of champagne, each bottle topped with a butterfly bottle stopper.

You can find more butterfly wedding cake ideas here.

 

 

Butterfly Cake Knife Server

 

The table cloth decorated with colorful butterflies. The cutting knife and cake server featuring butterfly details complete the look.

Serve your wedding cake with cream or ice cream topped with delicate chocolate butterflies.

Or have your guests take home the wedding cake in butterfly cake boxes or bags.