Butterflies have become an extremely popular wedding theme in recent years. Butterflies can add a dreamy and romantic feel to your day. They can be incorporated throughout your wedding ceremony and reception. You can adorn your invitations, decorations, and wedding favors with butterfly images. Many companies offer live butterflies for release for the moment when the couple leaves the church. This replaces the popular bubbles or birdseed.
Here is a list of ten butterfly-themed favors you can buy or make for your wedding.
Butterfly Chocolates: You can purchase these in bulk or make them yourself. Many craft stores offer candy molds and chocolate made just for home candy-making. There are a large variety of colors you can choose to match your wedding theme colors.
Butterfly Favor Boxes: Boxes filled with yummy treats are a common wedding gift. You can dress up almost any favor box to match your butterfly theme. Search local craft stores for miniature butterflies. These are usually made from painted feather pieces or painted cloth. Find butterflies that match your wedding colors. Use a little glue to perch the butterflies on the filled boxes.
Butterfly Candles: Go to your local candle shop or gift retailer and you will probably find butterfly-shaped votives or floating candles you can use for favors. If you are knowledgeable in candle-making or know someone who is, these can be made at home. Choose colors and scents to compliment your wedding theme.
Butterfly Soap: Much like the candles, soaps are offered in many shapes and sizes. Look in craft or home stores for soaps in butterfly shapes. Soaps are also something you can make at home. If you plan to make these yourself, start a few months before your wedding. Homemade soaps need time to cure.
Butterfly Placeholders: This is an elegant way to present your seating cards at your reception. These placeholders can be made of blown glass, pewter, or sterling silver. They come in many colors. Quite often, the wings of the butterfly can hold up the place card. This is an excellent idea for outdoor weddings where there may be a lot of wind that might blow place-seating cards off of the table.
Photo Frames: Photo frames are popular favors that can double as place-card holders. If you cannot find butterfly-themed frames, you can decorate them yourself. Have the artist in your life hand-paint butterflies on the frames or find decorative butterflies that you can glue on the frames yourself.
Votive Candleholders: There is a large variety of votive candleholders available online and in retail stores. Some come beautifully hand-painted or with butterflies carved right into the glass. If you can't find any with butterflies, dress them up yourself. Buy votives in colors to match your wedding colors for a great guest favor.
Wedding Bubbles: Bubbles have become a tradition in modern-day weddings. Bubble containers come in all shapes and color schemes. Some bubble containers come with a butterfly on the top of the wand. Bubble containers can be wrapped in tulle material secured with a ribbon.
Butterfly Cookie Cutters: Look on the Internet or in your local home store for butterfly-shaped cookie cutters for a wedding favor. You can attach a poem or a cookie recipe to your cookie cutter with ribbon or order prefabricated favors on the Internet.
Butterfly Garden: For a lasting reminder of your wedding, give out butterfly gardens to each of your guests. In an envelope or favor box, give each guest flower seeds. Some flowers that attract butterflies are petunias, sweetpeas, black-eyed susans, snapdragons, and marigolds. Give a mixture of some of these seeds to each guest with planting instructions. Your guests will enjoy the blooms that will grow in honor of your wedding day.
