Butterfly Decoration Ideas for a Wedding
If you're planning a spring or summer wedding, enhance the reception space with a charming butterfly theme. Not only with the decor look fresh and whimsical, you can customize it to reflect your wedding colors. No matter what your wedding reception decorating budget is, you can create a memorable look using a butterfly theme.
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Butterfly-Inspired Place Settings
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Decorate wedding reception tables with butterfly-themed place settings. Choose delicate butterfly-printed plates with elegant gold rims, reminiscent of tableware found at tea parties. If you're crafty, design your own wine or champagne glasses by painting butterfly designs on them using stencils and acrylic paint. Brighten up white linen napkins with enameled butterfly rings.
Floral Touches
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Use a butterfly-filled summer garden as inspiration when decorating reception tables with flowers and greenery. Attach realistic-looking butterfly clips to real or faux ivy garlands and drape them against the backs of chairs. Fill delicate bud vases, which are smaller versions of traditional vases, with single stems of pink, purple or yellow tulips and set one by each place setting; the vases can also serve as wedding favors.
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Butterfly Garden Centerpiece
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Infuse reception tables with vibrant color by creating butterfly garden centerpieces. To design each centerpiece, place a block of water-soaked florists' foam in a white pedestal-style bowl. Cover the top of the foam with decorative moss. Insert stems of colorful and sweet-smelling spring flowers, such as snapdragons, tulips, daisies and lilacs, into the foam to create a bouquet. Finish the centerpiece by inserting tall butterfly picks, which can be found in craft stores, randomly around the arrangement.
Themed Wedding Favors
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Charming and colorful butterfly-themed wedding favors can also serve as table decor. Set one stained glass butterfly-shaped tea light holder next to each place setting; when the candles are lit, they'll cast rainbows across the tables. Other favors ideas include butterfly-shaped sugar cookies decorated with pastel-hued frosting, or candies and glass butterfly-shaped wine bottle stoppers.
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