It's like a vision out of a romantic movie - the bride and groom emerge from the church into a cloud of beautiful, fluttering Monarch butterflies. The little harbingers of springtime hope flit around the happy couple, perhaps landing on the bride's bouquet or stopping to rest on the groom's shoulder as if adding their congratulations to the ceremony. Thanks to the growing popularity of wedding butterfly release ceremonies, scenes like this are happening around the country every single day. If the idea of sharing your special day with butterflies enchants you, read on to learn more about butterflies, butterfly release customs and things you need to know about releasing butterflies at your wedding or other special event.
Not a Last-Minute Decision
While most nurseries try to keep sufficient live stock to fill anticipated orders for butterfly releases, you do need to plan ahead if you're planning to release butterflies at your wedding. Most companies that sell butterflies for event releases ask for 4 to 6 weeks advance ordering so they can plan their stock accordingly.
They Are Shipped Live
Generally, your butterflies will arrive via overnight express the day before your wedding ceremony. Someone will need to be at the delivery address to accept the shipment, and you'll need to set aside a cool, dark place to store the package until just before the ceremony. Each will be packaged in its release box or envelope inside a larger, insulated cooler to maintain the right temperature to keep them alive and healthy until just before your ceremony. The butterflies will have been fed before shipment and won't need to be fed again, but you must follow the suppliers' instructions to keep them alive until it's time to release them into the environment.
Methods of Butterfly Release for Wedding
There are a number of different ways to release butterflies at your wedding. Most suppliers offer both individual release boxes and a number of different types of mass butterfly release options.
Individual Release
Your butterflies will arrive packaged in individual release boxes or envelopes inside an insulated cooler. About half an hour before the ceremony, they can be transferred to a basket or other container to be handed out to participating guests or members of the wedding party. At the appropriate time, the minister or other speaker cues the guests to open their release boxes, and the air will be filled with vibrant butterflies filling the sky with color.
Mass Release
If you prefer to release a cloud of butterflies at once, the wedding butterflies will need to be transferred into a larger release box or cage. The butterfly supplier will include specific instructions on how to make the transfer and keep the butterflies safe and happy until the basket, cage or box is opened to release your wedding butterflies into the air around the happy couple.
Farm-Raised Butterflies Are Safe for the Environment
Early on, experts had concerns about releasing farm-raised Monarch butterflies into the environment through wedding butterfly release activities. Since then, the Monarch Watch program has found no damage to local butterfly populations or the environment due to butterfly releases into the environment. And because most butterfly breeders introduce wild strains into their stock each season, the butterflies released into the environment this way are fully capable of feeding, flying and migrating with the rest of the Monarch population.
A wedding butterfly release is a beautiful and moving addition to your wedding ceremony. When you work with an experienced and knowledgeable butterfly breeder, you'll be sure to receive healthy, live butterflies to fill the air with love and best wishes on butterfly wings.
Author Resource:
Chris Robertson is an author of Majon International, one of the world's MOST popular internet marketing companies on the web.
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