A Beautiful Butterfly Wedding
There are infinite ways in which to magically weave the romantic and pretty butterfly theme throughout your wedding! From your wedding stationary, bridal look and wedding decor to your guest favors and wedding cake, learn how to do it all yourself!
Having previously featured wedding theme inspiration for other fluttering creatures in our 24 DIY Love Birds Wedding Theme Ideas, be inspired by our latest collection of 21 DIY Butterflies Wedding Theme & Ideas, which is perfect for a Springtime wedding!
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1. (Above Left ) DIY Butterfly Guest Sign-In Cards – Add a dash of butterfly whimsy to your wedding with this pretty butterfly wedding guest sign-in card idea from Party Pieces in the UK. {DIY Tip} Purchase butterfly-shaped cards and punch a hole between the upper wings of each butterfly. String a line of ribbon near the entrance to your wedding reception. Have your guests sign a butterfly-shaped card, which they can secure along your line by slipping a short piece of ribbon through the punched hole.
2.(Above Right ) DIY 3D Butterflies – From Mon Amie Paperie grab these 3D butterflies and use for your wedding cake, garlands and hanging butterfly decor. Get them here.
3.DIY Vintage Butterfly Wedding Confetti – Butterfly-shaped wedding confetti which can be purchased from DDE Forest Etsy Store is a perfect alternative to traditional flower petals and can also be used as a finishing touch for your table decorations. {DIY Tip} If you want to recreate yourself, use a butterfly punch on paper from old unused books or even old atlas paper and voila! You are left with butterfly-shaped wedding confetti!
4. (Above Left) DIY Butterfly Cake – Captured by Made U Look Photography, as seen on Rock n Roll Bride, Smith’s Bakery in Bakersfield shares this great idea of how to dress up an elegant cake design with a few well-placed butterflies in colours that compliments your wedding theme. {DIY Tip} You can buy the amazing sugar butterflies here! If you prefer non edible, you can purchase a few beautiful nylon butterflies or print and snip the DIY Vintage Butterfly Printable provided below by and display on your wedding cake. Of course the sugary option is by far our fave!
5. (Above Right) DIY Vintage Butterfly Wedding Paper Garland – Decorate your wedding venue with a beautiful vintage butterfly garland, as seen here by La Mia Casa. {DIY Tip} Using old vintage book paper, cut circles measuring about 2″ wide. Repeat the same process using paper with a wrinkled design. Imprint each wrinkled design paper circle with a butterfly ink stamp, before pasting each one onto a vintage book paper circle. Sew the paper circles together using strong cotton and add lovely ribbons on each end for them to be hung. Or just grab them ready made from La Mia Casa to save time!
6. (Above) DIY Vintage Butterfly Wedding Favor Tags – Add a cute butterfly-imprinted tag to your wedding favors, available from the Seasonal Delights Etsy Store. {DIY Tip} Want to try it yourself? Purchase pre-cut ivory cardstock gift tags, preferably with a vintage inspired look. Using a butterfly handstamp, create these butterfly imprinted gift tags in an ink colour of your choice. String matching ivory string through the punched hole of each gift tag. Or just grab them from Seasonal Delights ready made!
7. (Above) DIY Buttefly Floral Centrepieces – Have a floral feast with a butterfly flower centrepiece arrangement for each of your wedding tables, as shown here by Project Nursery. {DIY Tip} Purchase flowers such as hydrangeas, carnations and roses, wet foam and vases, and assemble each floral centerpiece with the butterflies added as finishing touch.
8. (Above) DIY Butterfly Headpiece – As featured by Green Wedding Shoes and snapped by Photographs by Anjuli, add a few feminine, colourful butterflies to your bridal hairstyle. {DIY Tip} Glue a few nylon or feather butterflies to hair slides and secure them as part of your hairstyle.
9. DIY Origami Butterfly Mobile – Featured by Karinethiboult.over-blog, learn how to create this unique hanging wedding decor idea using origami butterflies. {DIY Tip} Create butterflies using the origami technique from Origami-Instructions before mounting them to a metal frame.
10. DIY Butterfly Straw Toppers – Add a little whimsy to your wedding refreshments with butterfly straw toppers, as seen here by Styled by Belle. {DIY Tip} Order a set of paper butterfly toppers with punched holes to slip over your straws from Le Goods. To secure each butterfly topper to its straw, fold and glue the butterfly wings into place.
11. DIY Butterfly Hanging Decor and Centrepiece – Wow your wedding guests with an incredible butterfly-inspired table setting as featured here by Lil Blu Boo with images by Lisa. {DIY Tip} For the hanging lanterns, suspend different sized and coloured lanterns that are decorated with artificial butterflies. To add some sparkle, beads can also be strung using jewellery wire attached to the bottom of each lantern. For the centrepiece, take a small tree branch and secure butterflies onto it using hot glue.
12. DIY Butterfly Embellished Paper Lantern – Make a statement with this gorgeous paper lantern from Glue Arts that has several layers of butterfly and flower embellishments. (As seen on Offbeat Bride.)
13. DIY Vintage Butterfly Printables – Call Me Victorian shares these free and beautiful downloadable vintage butterflies that can be printed and used for a range of butterfly-inspired wedding ideas. Get the DIY here.
14. DIY Butterfly and Flower Cake – Be inspired by this Peggy Porschen cake design from Tikkido that boasts 200 fondant roses and fluttering butterflies! {DIY Tip} Whether you’re having your wedding cake made or if you’re making it yourself, recreate a similar cake design and adorn with a few butterflies that are secured to thin wire.
15. DIY Vintage Butterfly Wedding Paper Garland – Decorate your wedding venue with a beautiful vintage butterfly garland, as seen here by La Mia Casa. {DIY Tip} Using old vintage book paper, cut circles measuring about 2″ wide. Repeat the same process using paper with a wrinkled design. Imprint each wrinkled design paper circle with a butterfly ink stamp, before pasting each one onto a vintage book paper circle. Sew the paper circles together using strong cotton and add lovely ribbons on each end for them to be hung.
16. DIY Butterfly Bouquet – From Martha Stewart Weddings, create a beautiful silk and feather butterfly bouquet that resembles real butterflies fluttering in your hands. Photography by Jacob Pritchard. Get the DIY here.
17. DIY Mason Jar Butterfly Terrarium – Create these adorable butterfly terrariums in mason jars for your table decor or hand them out as wedding favors as created by Kirsten of 6th Stree designs – Get her DIY here. |
18. DIY Butterfly Wedding Centrepiece – Created by Sweet Paul and snapped by Alexandra Grablewski, all this pretty butterfly table centrepiece idea requires is an old saucer, a twiggy branch, paper butterflies, a hot glue gun and a glass dome to cover your butterfly creation! Get the DIY here.
19. DIY Butterfly Wreath – Display a butterfly wreath from Tales from An Oc Cottage in an old vintage frame at your wedding reception. Get the DIY here.
20. DIY Vintage Butterfly Bouquet – Create a truly unique bouquet for your wedding day. From Momental Designs, this butterfly paper bouquet captured by Sanderson Images is an unusual take on traditional handmade paper bouquets. {DIY Tip} Cut approximately 100 butterfly shapes from water-coloured heavy paper and string together to create a bouquet of paper butterflies. Alternatively, use watercolour paints to paint about 100 free-form butterflies on heavy paper, before cutting them out and stringing them together. To complete your bouquet, knot silk ribbon along the bouquet’s handle and allow for long wispy ribbon streamers to fall.
21. DIY Butterfly Floral Headpiece – Adorn your wedding hairstyle with this beautiful butterfly floral headpiece snapped by Linna Xu Photography. {DIY Tip} Sew hand cut butterflies and organza flowers onto a ribbon so that it is ready to be worn.
Keen for a few more wedding theme DIY ideas and inspiration? Head on over to our fave DIY Glitter Wedding Theme Ideas & Inspiration to find out how to add a bit of fabulous sparkle to your wedding occasion.