Butterfly release?

Oh my!!! They are PULLING THEM out of the box!!! That is terrible I like the first video that it landed right on his face and he's trying to get her to look at him.

I wonder how many actually go bad and actually go right

I'm going to lean towards more going bad than right...

The second one kind of makes me irritated! They are hurting them more buy pushing and shoveling them out

Sadly, this is what happens at the releases b/c the butterflies are still 'sleeping' or dead. :-/

I want to release butterflies too. I love them

I wouldn't do it.....I feel like it's really cruel to the animals. From what I've read, so many of them die in the process. It's not something I would want to do to an animal that I love.

Plus they're not trained performance animals, so you have no guarantee whether they are even going to cooperate or not. And it seems bad for the environment too, if you're potentially releasing a species of insect and/or any pollen/disease/etc they might be carrying into the wild.

Sorry. I vote no.

I've done this twice. It didn't "work' either time. I vote no.

I vote no just for ethical reasons. #1 you could possibly be introducing foreign species which could cause considerable damage to the ecosystem all in the name of a "butterfly release".

#2 its just cruel. like most have stated, they die in the process. not that butterflies have an exponentially long lifespan, but their life shouldnt be sacrificed for you to have pretty pictures. i feel like that is slapping mother nature in the face.

i think dove releases are 30x worse. dont even get me started on that. lol!

Carly, why do you say Dove release is worse?? I really want to do that...

I read couple of websites where they "train" them like messenger birds, & you can only release them while its still light out, so they can fly back, & they can fly up to 200 miles...

I really want to do the release of Doves, but now I am curious to hear Carly side that it might change my mind...

Celia, have you had anyone do that at one of your ceremonies?

There is a company that makes rice butterflies and when released they look like real live butterflies so you get the feel and beauty of an actual butterfly release, but nothing has to die

Here's the website...

http://www.ricebutterflies.com/

I absolutely love butterflies too! We are having our ceremony and reception indoors so we can't do a release. We are looking into creating butterfly habitats that will hold 3 butterflies as our centerpieces. Since we are having an evening wedding we will hold on to them until the following day where we can release in an appropriate area.