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Hi, we didn't have too many butterfly's but we did use them on some of the dinner setting. 

Well, if you DO want living creatures, you can do a butterfly release, like we did, if you live in an area warm enough to release live butterflies in April. 

There are several invitations available that have butterflies on them.  I got my invitations on eBay, and although our theme was double hearts, I know many of the printers had butterflies available, too, (most can print them in colors of your choosing).  I know you said reception, but in case you don't have your invitations picked out yet.

Before we decided to go with the double hearts, I thought about doing butterflies, myself.  I bought some white butterfly Christmas ornaments after Christmas.  They don't look like Christmas ornaments, so our plan was to put them in rented trees.  We ended up not using them, (we probably still would have, but trees were more spendy than we thought!), but I thought they would have been pretty.

You could have them incorporated into the cake somehow.  Well, ON the cake sounds better, (into makes it sound like you're baking the butterflies in the cake batter!  EW!).  As a topper or other decoration...someone posted a cake with dragonflies on it that was neat. 

Hope you get lots of neat ideas!!!!

wow the butterfly release is really neat.

For those interested in butterfly releases, the company we chose was Swallowtail Farms (www.swallowtailfarms.com).  They were awesome to deal with, and the butterflies arrives right on time the day before the weddding.  There were clear instructions on how to care for them, and how to transfer them from their shipping envelopes to the release container, etc.  They also sell a lot of butterfly themed products, so even if you don't do a release, check out their site to see what they sell as far as decorations/favors/etc.  As a plus, they were the cheapest place I found that sells monarch butterflies (as opposed to painted ladies, which are cheaper, but not nearly as "purdy")!