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Welcome to Butterfly Release Company, Inc. Above are only a few featured packages to buy butterflies and butterfly release products.

Please click on a category for more information for butterfly releases. We have the most options for butterfly releases on the web!

We guarantee our live butterflies for release to arrive alive and on time!

Why order from Butterfly Release Company? We specialize in butterfly weddings but also can accommodate last minute orders for butterflies for funerals or butterfly memorials .  We also provide Easter Butterflies and specialize in large butterfly releases for fundraisers for organizations like Relay For Life, Goodwill, Compassionate Friends and many more. We ship our butterflies priority overnight within the United States only where the butterflies are indigenous and in accordance with current USDA permits and regulations. We have been successfully adding live butterflies for release to events for more than a decade. Our company is an "Accredited Business" and has Top Ratings with the Better Business Bureau. We make sure receiving and releasing your butterflies is easy and stress free. Your order of live butterflies will ship FedEx priority overnight to arrive the day before your butterfly release. We take great pride in our butterfly release company making sure you get top quality vibrant Live Butterflies. We hand raise all of our butterflies to guarantee the best and brightest butterflies for your event. We provide not only wedding butterflies, celebration butterflies and memorial butterflies but also educational butterfly kits.  for a butterfly wedding are easy and fun. You can buy live butterflies at Butterfly Release Company where customer service is not a lost art, but something we practice with every customer treating them like family and friends. Just call us and find out for yourself. 407-754-2353.

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Butterfly Releases are a beautiful and easy addition to your event making it memorable and unique. We offer several Butterfly Wedding Packages. Each butterfly for release arrives safely in an origami folded butterfly release envelope with personal imprint.

Live Wedding Butterflies are a great replacement for rice or bubbles, they are a benefit to the environment and easy to do. Simply unfold and open the envelopes completely and you and your guests will fill the sky with a wonderful spectacle of a butterfly wedding. Our mass butterfly release decorator boxes are made for a beautiful release of live butterflies all at once in front of your guest. The butterflies arrive in the box for a easy and amazing butterfly release. Live butterfly releases are also great for birthday parties, anniversary, engagements, grand openings or celebrating a loved ones life with a butterfly memorial. We custom make our products to accommodate what you want.

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Some common questions about butterfly releases...

Where can I get butterflies?  We provide painted lady and monarch butterflies though out the Continental United States although due to USDA restrictions we CANNOT ship monarchs to AK, AZ, CA, Western CO, ID, MT, NY, NV,NM, OR, UT and WA. We only ship butterflies that are indigenous to your state and that are beneficial to the environment.

When do I place my order?  As soon as you can because we do sell out.  We accept orders up to a year in advance, although to guarantee availability we do request 30 days in advance of your release date. , However we do welcome last minute orders and based on availability it could be just a few days before your event.  We specialize in wedding butterflies but we can accommodate memorials for a same day shipping if possible. Releases less than 72 hours, we ask that you call please.

How do I pay for my order? We accept Visa / MasterCard and Discover.  We can take checks or money orders as long as we receive them prior to shipping.  You can place your order on line with our secure order form 24/7, or call 1-407-754-2353 Monday - Friday 9am - 6pm EST. Your credit card information is protected using industry standard (SSL) encryption technology and your information is kept confidential and never sold or given to a third party.  We respect your privacy. 

When will I receive my order? Your live butterflies will be shipped FedEx next day air to arrive the day before your event.(Please note there is no Sunday delivery options and we cannot ship to arrive on Monday)  In most cities and towns Fed Ex arrives before 10:30AM.  When you receive your order it is necessary to replace the ice pack and keep the live butterflies in a cool environment (not a refrigerator).  A copy of the complete instructions will be shipped with your butterflies for release.

What if I need to cancel my order? If the weather is predicted to not cooperate we ask for you to let us know as soon as you can. Cancellations of at least 3 days in advance of your shipping date will be refunded in full. We just want an opportunity to sell the butterflies you can't use to someone who can. Your order can also be postponed if need.

What do I do when the butterflies arrive?   Open the box and you will find your instructions, the Indian poem, and your receipt. Simply take the top Styrofoam lid off and you will find your live butterflies in either your decorator box, or in a floral box that will have your triangular envelope with the butterflies in them. Leave the butterflies in the Styrofoam shipping box and replace the ice pack that we comes with your order.  Replace our ice pack with a frozen one (you must have a frozen ice pack prior to delivery) and that will keep the butterflies dormant until you are ready to release them.  When putting the Styrofoam lid back on the box, leave it cracked open for some ventilation. Leave the box in a room temperature room.  Do not put your butterflies in a refrigerator.

What do I do the day of the wedding? One hour before you want your butterflies to fly, take the floral box or decorator box out of the insulated shipping box and let the butterflies warm and wake up.  Make sure you tell your guest there are butterflies in the envelopes and to be gentle.  The temperature needs to be above 70 degrees for a successful release. 

Painted lady or Monarch?  There are a many advantages to using the Painted Lady for your Butterfly Release. While the Monarch is also a beautiful butterfly, the Painted Lady will linger after releases while the Monarch will quickly flee the scene. If you would like to enjoy the excitement of a butterfly that will often land contently on your shoulder or bouquet, this butterfly will perfectly accommodate your wishes. Both butterflies are very beautiful, the monarch has an average size of 4 inches compared to the average size of a painted lady being 2 inches. 

When do you give the butterflies to the guests to release? The shortest amount of time is the best. Some ideas are to hand them out while your guest go outside to release them. Get a volunteer to let people know they have a live butterfly for release while giving them to the guest.
If it's an outdoor ceremony let the guest all be seated and then have the ushers or appointed volunteers quickly and easily hand them out just before the ceremony . There are countless other ways and if you have questions, please email or call to ask before or after your order.

Please see our Questions page for more great information.