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Ideas for Beautiful Butterfly Wedding Favors

Butterflies are a pretty way to theme your wedding and make a nice departure from hearts and flowers, they are also easy when it comes to wedding favors.  Choosing your favors means looking for those items which match your wedding style or theme, so whether you want shaped favors or decorations for your packaging, butterflies offer many choices.

 

Butterfly wedding favors are available in the form of candles, photograph frames, bottle stoppers and bookmarks.  There is also a wide range of decorative items which you can use to add to your packaging.  If you are feeling more creative however, then here are some ideas for making butterfly favors of your own.

 

Chocolates and Candies: use butterfly shaped chocolates sitting on a ceramic butterfly shaped dish for a stylish favors.  Or make up mini boxes of candies using butterfly and flower shaped candies in your wedding colors, look out for acrylic butterfly shaped boxes to put them in.

 

Cookies: custom cookies have become very popular in recent years and butterfly shaped cookies iced in your wedding colors make for beautiful and tasty wedding favors!

 

Mini Cakes: whether you go for formal mini cakes or pretty cupcakes, these are sure to delight your guests when iced and topped with an edible butterfly.

 

Ceramic: some favour stores have ceramic butterflies designed for resting your place cards on or cutlery.  These make nice favors as they can be used for decorative purposes after the wedding.

 

Crystal: look for pretty crystal butterflies which can be used as ornaments or paperweights.  Crystal wedding favors are becoming very popular and more stores are beginning to stock them.

 

Butterfly Garden: give your guests packets of seeds perfect for attracting butterflies to their gardens.  Choose varieties like buddleia which is known as the butterfly bush.

 

For the Girls: for your female guests look for butterfly designed compacts and mirrors, key chains and perfume bottles, ideal for favors for your wedding shower.

 

There is also many different decorations you could use to theme your packaging to a butterfly wedding.  Feather or fabric butterflies look adorable sitting on top of favor boxes or make your own paper versions using a shaped craft punch.  You can also find printed ribbons and personalized stickers to add to bottles, boxes, jars and tins.

About the Author

I am a freelance writer writing extensively about weddings and wedding planning for a major US wedding website.  Living and working in the UK I am also a busy married mother of three!

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