What could be more beautiful and feminine than a butterfly? Their graceful nature and pretty colors make butterflies one of the most special motifs to use for a wedding. These are some marvelous butterfly decorations which would add a touch of whimsy to any wedding.
The neat thing about using butterflies as a wedding decoration is that they are small and pretty. They can be used sparingly for one or two surprise details, or as a unifying theme throughout your wedding. A lovely place to begin is with wedding stationery which is either stamped or embossed with a butterfly in flight. It would look lovely done in a either dark pink or purple against a paper in a paler shade of the same color for a soft tonal effect.
All little girls love butterflies, so if you use butterflies in only one part of your wedding, let it be the flower girl’s attire. Start with butterfly motif flower girl jewelry. A dainty pendant featuring a sparkling crystal butterfly would be the ideal jewelry gift for a flower girl of any age. Next, there is her dress. A white organza flower girl dress can be embellished by stitching on small lace appliques in the shape of butterflies. Let them be more heavy near the hem of the gown, and scattered more lightly towards the top of the dress so it looks like they are taking flight. If you really want to go all out with the theme, use a flower girl dress in a solid color organza, and let your little one prance down the aisle wearing a set of beautiful butterfly wings.
Butterflies and flowers go hand in hand, so the wedding flowers would be a natural next place to decorate with butterflies. Colorful mixed bouquets would be even more special with a few butterflies on long wires tucked in between the flowers so they appear to be perched on the blossoms. Choose from silk, feather, or even enamel butterflies in an array of colors. To make a very bold statement, create a bridal bouquet entirely out of feather and silk butterflies, formed into a nosegay shape. If this feels like too much of a good thing for the bride, a scaled down version would be absolutely adorable for the flower girl and junior bridesmaids.
Rather than the standard white place cards, why not use die cut butterfly cards to graciously welcome guests to their seats at the reception? Simply pen the name of each guest onto a piece of heavy card stock in a butterfly shape, cut a slit into it, and perch it gracefully onto the rim of a wineglass at each place setting. As a great tie in, the same shaped paper could be used for the escort cards. Create a butterfly tree with the name and table numbers suspended from branches. This would be an equally lovely idea for an indoor or an outdoor reception.
The final wedding element to decorate with butterflies is the wedding cake. A scattering of the graceful winged creatures going up the tiers of the cake would be a gorgeous sweet ending to any wedding. The butterfly theme is so elegant and whimsical that it is sure to add a touch of magic to your wedding.
Above information provided courtesy of Laura Firenze
The butterfly is just a perfect symbol for love, how? The answer is butterfly is the transformative creature. Its life begins as ugly duckling and converts into a very beautiful thing which liked by everyone. So, butterfly is the most preferred one. It is a transformation, passing through dreadful phases to reach at most beautiful end, which concludes in a final commitment Marriage.
Therefore, the butterfly wedding cakes are more perfect for you. It is one of the most exclusive ideas that you can take on. But there is only one challenge to face once you have fixed on to go with this specific kind of wedding cake is to find a capable baker. This is for the reason that you wish for your wedding cake to be the best wedding cake.
Above information provided courtesy of eweddingcake.com
Creating A Wedding Centerpiece is Easy! Here’s How:
1. Start by selecting an attractive clear glass container for the centerpiece. Here, an elevated bowel on a glass pedestal was used, but feel free to use a more standard style of bowl for equally lovely effects.
2. Fill the container with fresh water.
3. Select your floating candles.
4. Place the floating candles in the water. To mimic the look in the photo, crowd the candles in the container – for this particular container, four candles was about all it could hold, and we crammed them in! If you prefer a different look, use fewer candles.
5. It’s the rose petals that really cap off the look in this particular centerpiece design and give it that super-romantic, super-soft visual effect. Just place the petals on water and around the candles, and be sure to also sprinkle them on the table, around the centerpiece to finish that wonderful setting!
Butterflies flutter and float gracefully atop a pretty bowl of water in this mesmerizing table centerpiece design – More of the magic which can be created simply with the use of floating candles! Use the butterfly candles on their own, or combine with floral floating candles to create additional interest within the design. Consider combining with floating candles, a perfect compliment to the look with their delicate petals. Perhaps the most popular variety of orchid, and is known as the ‘butterfly orchid” because its delicate petals resemble the wing of a butterfly, unfolding in velvety color.
Bowls of flowers and floating candles make a very pretty presentation for table centerpieces, and have the added benefit of being extremely easy to assemble. Pictured above, pastel colors set the perfect tone for a spring wedding. A large silk floral bloom is immersed in an elegant clear glass bowl. In keeping with the floral theme, four floating rose-shaped candles in a combination of pastel colors float on the surface of the water. The arrangement is placed on the center of the table atop a table runner in coordinating pastel mauve. To add to the look, small flower pots of votive candles surrounded by pastel roses are placed in alternating positions along the center of the rectangular table, on both sides of the floating candle display. For a final finishing touch, faux rose petals are scattered delicately around the table.
Above information provided courtesy of superweddings.com
Planning a wedding, whether it involves 50 people or 500 people, can be a stressful time. You want your guests to remember your wedding as a day filled with happiness and enchantment.
One unique effect can be achieved through a live butterfly release. As a beautiful and environmentally-sound alternative to blowing bubbles, throwing rice or birdseed or releasing balloons, a butterfly release will make your day memorable! Can you imagine the magnificence of dozens of colorful butterflies winging their way skyward as a grand finale to your wedding ceremony? The release of nature’s prettiest creatures is a symbolic way to celebrate any number of occasions, including weddings, proms, parties, and quinceneras. Butterflies have always been thought of as bringing good luck to people and everyone loves butterflies.
One way to involve your guests is to have a “butterfly attendant” hand out the envelopes in which the butterflies are temporarily kept. When the signal is given, each person opens their envelopes and the butterflies fly out to create a magnificent display. Some butterflies, especially monarchs, may alight on your guests. When released, they have a slow and graceful flight. They are actually “social butterflies!”
On a smaller scale, butterflies can be used as table centerpieces, enclosed in elegant see-through “cages” where they flutter about until time for their release. Guests are always enchanted by this distinctive and unusual display of beauty.
Butterflies are carefully raised by farmers, who then package them in small Styrofoam coolers before shipping them overnight to your door. Since they are cold-blooded, they are resting and dormant while in the cooler. Exposure to warm temperatures will make them active and ready to fly. They must be released outdoors during daylight and during months where the temperatures are high enough for them to fly ~ above 60 degrees. Care of the butterflies is minimal; you just keep the container cool for a night by refreezing and replacing the cold pack that comes with each shipment. Very few butterflies expire before their release and usually one or more “extras” are included in your order. Most butterfly farmers hold permits to ship several species across state lines. The butterflies you release will be indigenous to your state and will most probably live for a few weeks, finding each other after they are released, mating and helping to repopulate the species.
A butterfly farmer will help you choose the butterflies that are right for your state, your budget and your special occasion.
Above information provided courtesy of wedding-blog.wedalert.com
We absolutely love “Pink Cake Box” and they create such beautiful butterfly wedding cakes, we just had to include it on our website for all of our wonderful guests to view.
“We created over 200 cupcakes for a wedding at the Royal Albert’s Palace in Raritan, NJ. The cupcakes were setup with our 7 tier cupcake stand and a 2 tier garden top cake with butterflies, birds and crystal flowers. The cupcake flavors included pink velvet cake with vanilla buttercream and vanilla and chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream. The cupcakes were decorated with fuschia and orange colored roses.”
“We painted this wedding cupcake stand pale pink and decorated it with a ribbon trim to match the cake topper. The display held 60 cupcakes: 20 chocolate with cannoli filling, 20 chocolate with raspberry frosting, & 20 chocolate cupcakes with chocolate and cannoli filling. Each cupcake was adorned with a sugar butterfly.”
The first consideration when you are thinking about having a butterfly wedding where you will be releasing hundreds or thousands of butterflies is to do a complete butterfly theme for the wedding. This is where people get into trouble. Overdoing the theme where everything is “butterfly” oriented becomes tacky very quickly. This is why, even though a butterfly theme can form the foundation of a truly wonderful wedding, it’s very important to keep the theme very low key.
When you are planning to release butterflies, that is often enough so that butterfly images aren’t really needed on things like napkins of table cloth. By simply complimenting the “thought” of butterflies with things like wedding colors that compliment the species of butterflies that you purchased, or flowers throughout, guests will quickly recognize the theme and will appreciate the taste and style with which it was accomplished.
Always pick your flower arrangements to compliment the colors of the butterflies you’ve selected. It is easy to obtain pictures of online, even from the breeder where you order for release. Make sure the bridesmaid’s dresses are complimentary. The groom and groomsmen will almost always be complimentary, because most butterfly wings have black in them.
Also, have your wedding in a location that makes sense to release butterflies. Either a butterfly garden, or any outdoor wedding would make a beautiful ceremony that is centered upon the beautiful transformation and release to the freedom and independence represented by the butterfly. Also make sure that the photographers for your wedding are aware that you’re going to be doing a butterfly release. They will surely want to prepare their cameras for the unique photo opportunities such an event provides.
Purchase a raffle ticket for a chance to win a free cake for your next wedding, birthday or special event!
All proceeds from the raffle benefit the American Cancer Society Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk.
The Pink Cake Box team will be participating in this year’s American Cancer Society Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk in Parsippany, NJ. Making Strides is close to our hearts as our company is comprised of 95% women. We would like to show our support and raise money for breast cancer research and awareness by donating a free cake up to $500 in value to one lucky raffle winner.
The winner, chosen at random on October 17, 2009, will get to work with Pink Cake Box to design their own special cake or cupcakes. Note: They cannot ship our cakes/cupcakes and typically only deliver within the following areas:
See raffle rules here. Credit for the raffle idea goes to the Artisan Cake Company. If you live in the Portland Oregon location she is running a similar fundraiser to raise money for the Alyssa Malchow Breast Cancer Fund.
A wedding is a special time in every woman’s life. She dreams about her big wedding day ever since she was a little girl. When you were little, you remember on a bright spring day you would see a beautiful butterfly flying around and you would sit and day dream about your future and what it will bring. There is simply something magical about seeing a beautiful butterfly fluttering before you. We choose to believe that a butterfly signifies good luck. So if you are sentimental and perhaps a tad superstitious (and goodness knows most brides are) we recommend incorporating the butterfly into your wedding theme. And whether or not a butterfly can bring you good luck and marital bliss is still up in the air, but it certainly can’t hurt! When you think of butterflies, most people automatically think of warm weather and fragrant flowers. What better way to celebrate a spring or summer affair than with beautiful butterfly invitations, wedding favors, bridal bouquets, table settings, cake servers, wedding invitations, wedding cake or even have a live butterfly release when you are named ‘man and wife’. Butterflies symbolize the beginning of new life, and you can carry that theme through your event. Create that special day that you will treasure for a lifetime.
Create the fairytale wedding; the adorable baby shower; the ever so talked about birthday party; or the beautiful bedroom that everyone will be sure to love and remember for a lifetime.
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