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Having a Butterfly Wedding

You've loved butterflies from the time you were a child. Why not incorporate them into the most special day of your life?

Here are a few ways to weave butterflies into your wedding ceremony and reception. Pick one or a few to make your day extra-special.


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Love is Aflutter Butterfly Place Card Holders (set of 12)
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Petal Picking

It's easy to find a wide assortment of flower picks shaped like butterflies. You can easily tuck these into bouquets, altar flowers, or pew swags and flowers. Stencil a butterfly on a plain white guest book, or glue on a lacy appliqué.

Apply Yourself

Butterfly appliqués are simple to add to your wedding dress, veil, the flower girl's dress, the ring bearer's pillow or even your money purse.

For your attendants’ gifts, how about lovely chain or bracelet with a golden butterfly pendant or charm?

Add butterflies to the wedding cake. Have the decorator create sugar-paste butterflies, or add a jaunty spray of silk monarchs to the cake top. Alternative: top off the cake with a small, fancy cage. Fill it with flowers and a fluttering butterfly ... or two.

Serve butterfly-shaped cookies and candies for those with a sweet tooth.

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Butterfly Place Card Holders
Butterfly Love Wedding Invitation Invitations Suite
Chrome Butterfly Place Card Holder
Butterfly Wine Bottle Stoppers
Love is Aflutter Butterfly Magnets
Butterfly Shaped Cookie Cutter Favor
"Flight of Fancy" Flower Girl Basket
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In Living Color

Then, of course, there are live butterflies waiting to be a part of your special day. Display them a lace cage beside the guest book or other place of honor during the wedding. Then transport your little flutterers to the reception.

(The flower girl could echo this by carrying a small lace-covered cage herself. Inside the decorative cage, place fresh flowers and a butterfly: a beautiful alternative to dropping rose petals!)

Last but not least: after the ceremony, hand each guest a triangle-shaped envelope. As the bride and groom depart the chapel, the pastor might read a prayer or remind guests of “The Indian Legend.” When the prayer is finished, ask the guests to open their envelopes. Inside each one is a safe and secure butterfly, just waiting to flutter skyward at your wedding.

Family and loved ones will be delighted by these flying flowers as they glide along in the sunlight. You've just given rise to some wonderful memories that will last a lifetime!

Don't want to use live butterflies? How about a few animated butterflies that move realistically using thin wires that plug into a receptacle. Tuck these in flower arrangements and centerpieces.

Now, wouldn’t you like to have a butterfly wedding?

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Pink Butterflies Personalized Mint Tin
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Butterfly Candy Dish from the Porcelain Remembrances Collect
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"Butterfly" Silver-Metal Bookmark with White Silk Tassel
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Kati
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on November 6th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
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ok im planning a butterfly wedding next year. but the main issue is that i have no luck in finding a dress lol i want a butterfly dress as well as the decor. does anyone kno where i mite be able to find a butterfly wedding dress?? even if its custom made lol

 
 
Tiffany
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on August 22nd, 2007 at 9:08 am

You can light the memory candle before people start to arrive at the place where you will be getting married. Then while they are looking at all the decorations they will see it then. If there is a videographer he can zoom in on the candle at the beginning, so it is on your DVD, then the rest is your day. It is a happy day not a sad day.

 
Tiffany
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on August 22nd, 2007 at 9:01 am

I am having a butterfly wedding May 3, 2008 also. We have been dating 7 1/2 years! We are going to do a butterfly release in memory of my mother. You might want to think about just you and the groom being the ones to release a mass butterflys and others can watch. That might be within the budget.

 
Tanya
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on July 8th, 2007 at 10:15 pm
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Lisa,
I am having a butterfly theme also for my wedding on May 3rd 2008.
An idea for your cake is to ask a cake maker to make you some butterflies made out of icing, I am thinking of this idea to have them placed on top or around the cake, coloured ones look really good from some pics i’v seen in my home town.
Another idea for hourning your sister and grandmother are sand ceramony. I am also having this - 2 vases the same and 1 really nice one that the sand will be kept in. We have 2 different coloured sand and when ready a verse is said and we pour the sand into the third vase together at the same time. the sand pours together and makes beautiful colours and we get to keep it as a memory.
Hope this helps
Tanya

 
lisa
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on June 27th, 2007 at 9:09 pm

hey guys i am having a butterfly wedding in sept which is two months away while i still have no flowers or cake ordered or bridesmaid dresses picked out or food the one thing i do have is my dress anyway if any of you have any good ideas on how to incorporate butterflies into the cake or any other aspects please let me know also if you know of any flowers cheap that would be great i have a very very very small budget also i would love to have live butterflies but at this point they are way too expensive but i would like to honor my sister and FH’s grandmother that has passed away don’t really want to use the memory candles cause not sure when to light them and i also want to remember but not emphasize it either it’s a happy day i do’t want everyone crying but happy tears thanks for any ideas

 
julie
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on June 27th, 2007 at 6:39 pm
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Lori,

If you can contact me in regards to your butterfly wedding favor, i would love to learn what you had to buy to create this, and exact steps.

thanks,

 
Melanie
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on March 22nd, 2007 at 8:50 am

That sounds beautiful. I’m getting married, soon hopefully. I have been engaged for 3 years and we still haven’t set a date but i am taking care of the planning now and i think that i will be going with a butterfly theme also.

 
Lori
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on March 16th, 2007 at 2:40 pm

I have a great idea for a butterfly wedding favor I am planning for next year. We are taking votive candles and are attaching a small magnet to the front that have a totally realistic butterfly attached with a small magnet and ribbon in the color of my wedding. We then added a flameless tealight that flickers. Later the butterfly can come off with the ribbon and put on the fridge and the tealight used separtaely ITS GORGEOUS and it was so cheap…… We did it by buying things off of ebay. Contact me and I will be more than happy to share. Its pretty affordable and this is something that people can actually use after the wedding.

kym
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on June 3rd, 2009 at 11:00 am
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hi! i am having a butterfly theme wedding also. can u tell me your ideas?

 
Stormy
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on September 24th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
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:D Hi Lori…I’m having a wedding themed wedding. I’m not sure how you did what you did re the magnet and the votive candle. Do you mean you attached the magnet to the votive container then the flameless candle went inside it? If so, how’d you do that? With glue? What kind of glue? Do you happen to have a picture of what it looked like? I’d greatly appreciate any advice you can give me. Thank!

 
 
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