Butterfly Wedding Favors(done)
Gifts to guests are commonly known as wedding favors and are shared in cultures worldwide. Wedding favors have become a part of wedding reception planning, especially in the United States and Canada. Wedding favors are diverse and usually complement the theme or season of the event. If you are planning a spring or summer wedding, you’ll want to evoke fresh life and new beginnings. Giving butterfly wedding favors is a perfect way to express this sentiment.
Butterflies are recognized in folklore universal as a sign of delight, change, light-heartedness, color, and transformation. As its life-cycle has three distinct forms, it is a symbol of metamorphosis and change, rebirth into a new life. Butterfly symbolism is also used often in matters of the spirit and the soul.
When giving a butterfly party favor to your guests, you would like to include one or a few of the above stories on a card. Butterfly gifts can take any form that you can imagine, including jewelry, cookies and candy, candles, glass charms, snow globes, and figurines. Butterfly treats can include butterfly-shaped iced sugar cookies, marzipan candy, spun-sugar butterflies, or foil-wrapped butterfly chocolates. These can include bud vases, flower pots, gift bags and baskets, boxes, tea sachets, and so on.
The traditional wedding favor of five candied almonds can be attached together with icing to form a butterfly and mounted on a on a peppermint stick or sugar cookie with spun-sugar antennae. Craft butterflies can be attached to barrettes, bracelets or pins, or you may choose a more whimsical option such as butterfly finger puppets, stickers or headbands.
Butterflies are the perfect symbol of lighthearted, joyous new beginnings. To reflect the nature of the life you are beginning together, and reach out to your guests in the same spirit, consider giving butterfly wedding favors. May they also be happiness in your future together!
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