Add a Miracle to a Wedding, Funeral, Memorial
or Other Event!

A Butterfly Wedding or other event can be centered around Butterflies; from a centerpiece of butterflies to a grand finale of a Mass Butterfly Release.

Butterfly releases will not do well after dark and should never be released in cold weather, even without a Butterfly Release, your event can be butterfly themed. Described and illustrated below, ideas are limited more by lack of imagination than any other limitation! We welcome suggestions and will be delighted to add your ideas and photos to this site for use and enjoyment of other butterfly enthusiasts.

Centerpieces may be as small as an individual place setting butterfly release container to a large floor centerpiece filled with dozens of butterflies. How exciting to bring butterflies into your event only to release them into nature as part of or at the end of your celebration. These release butterflies have been reared only for the purpose of release and have never flown free outside of a screened garden built for the purpose of holding these fantastic release butterflies until they are purchased for release.

A wedding butterfly release is often held at outdoor weddings at the time the bride and groom are introduced as 'Mr. and Mrs.' to swirl about their heads as they walk back down the rows of chairs after the actual wedding. Indoor butterfly weddings usually end with a butterfly release as the couple leave the chapel or as the couple leaves the reception. Release boxes, baskets, or other containers can be made to match the color and theme of the event. If you prefer to purchase a release container, many types of releases boxes are available. From a graduation cap to a top hat, a 'wedding cake' to a red heart, from a child's purse to a decorated basket, Shady Oak Butterfly Farm offers many butterfly release containers for your event.

Food; often the most important ingredient in any event! Although we don't eat butterflies, we can eat butterflies! (So to speak.) Cheese, meat, bread, and other sandwich items can be cut into a butterfly or caterpillar shape with a cookie cutter. Chip dip, butter, and other dips can be served in individual or larger butterfly shaped or decorated serving containers. Cookies and cakes are often cut or cooked in butterfly or caterpillar shapes and decorated to look like a particular specie of butterfly or an imaginary butterfly or moth. Butterfly or moth (adult or caterpillar) decorations can adorn cupcakes, cookies, cakes, ice cream, or other food items. Serving dishes, paper plates, cups, tablecloths, and napkins add to the theme.

A Graduation Butterfly Release is a perfect symbol of the graduation itself. Leaving one stage of life to enter another is exactly what we do at graduation and exactly what a butterfly does when it emerges as an adult butterfly with wings. Our Graduation Butterfly Release Box is shaped like a graduation cap, tassel and all! Simply open the box to release your butterflies!

It's a new baby! Celebrate the birth or adoption of your child, grandchild, or grand-child with a butterfly release. As the new one leaves the hospital or at any other time of the entering of a child into your life, celebrate by releasing butterflies.

Releasing butterflies in a shower? Of course! Bridal shower or baby shower, what a marvelous occasion to hold a butterfly release in anticipation of the wonderful day to come.

Easter Butterfly Release: In some areas of the United States, Easter day is warm enough for a butterfly release. Our church places a six foot chicken wire covered cross outside the entrance to the sanctuary. As each worshiper arrives, they insert fresh flowers into the chicken wire. By the time church starts, the cross is covered with flowers of every imaginable shape and color. As we leave the sanctuary, after Easter service, each person receives a butterfly in a release envelope. All gather around the cross and at a given signal, all butterflies are released in unison. The cross is immediately decorated with butterflies, about one-third to one-half of those released fly to the flower covered cross. A butterfly is considered to be a symbol or resurrection, fitting for release on Easter Sunday.

Party Time! From a child to an adult, butterflies add nature to a birthday party, anniversary, or other celebration. Boys tend to shy away from butterfly adults, not realizing that many lepidopterists are men. Butterflies all over the world have been discovered by men and women alike. Butterflies are named after both men and women. Even so, some boys tend to avoid butterfly themed parties as many of the decorations are clearly feminine and pink. Instead, go for the caterpillar! 'Worms' are delightful for both boys and girls, at least some girls, and can be fun as a party theme. Butterflies can be added as caterpillars, with each guest taking home a butterfly vivarium. A vivarium is a caterpillar with all the food it needs to become an adult butterfly. The miracle of metamorphosis can be packaged, transported, and creates an enjoyment educational experience.

Quinceanera Butterfly Release; A wonderful addition to this celebration of a fifteenth (in some cultures sixteenth) birthday, a butterfly release symbolizes the step from childhood to womanhood during this special event.
Additional ideas and events celebrated with butterfly releases:
Mother's and Father's Day Celebration; a gift of nature to honor that very special parent!
Forth of July; celebrate the birth of our country with a butterfly release.
Memorial Day, Veteran's Day, Valentine's Day (in warm states only), New Year's (in the deepest south), and Thanksgiving.

A Butterfly Release Makes Your
Special Day More Special