I was at a wedding with the butterfly release. Yes, it was beautiful...and a nice way to include the guests in the church-exiting time.
I have done some research on the butterfly release as I am thinking about it for my own wedding. I would definitely just have the bridal party open them up because of 1-the cost and 2- the number of butterflies I would like flying around.
In the back of bridal magazines I have found two distributors both from CA but one preps the butterflies and sends them the day before the wedding for release and the other ships the lava and you have to prep them. This is the one I have heard many of the butterflies are dead the first I mentioned gives you a guarantee that less than 1% would come deceased if that many.
Good luck.
are bad for the ecology and bad for the butterflies and doves. Its not a good thing to take creatures from their natural environment, bring them to another one and set them free. All sorts of issues get raised, how will they feed themselves? being detached from their environment, predators, how their presence will affect the life balance of the creatures in the new area?
For the moment or 2 of pleasure it gives you, these creatures have to deal with it for quite some time to come.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a big animal activist. In fact, I wanted to do this as well. But after everything I've read, I've come to learn that this is just a bad thing to do.
