White Bird Release

Wedding Planning Articles
# 4 – After-Ceremony “Releases”
Many wedding properties do not allow the guests to throw rice after the ceremony (it’s an inconvenient chore to clean up). You have many options to get the same affect. One option is to give bubble containers to the guests to blow bubbles outside the ceremony. This makes a beautiful scene and it’s fun to do. Butterfly releases is another option. Legend has it that butterflies are good luck and they make a spectacular moment! Dove releases is yet another popular option. Doves are released by the Bride and Groom after the ceremony, or many doves can be released right after the ceremony. Contact the local yellow pages, regional bridal magazines or Internet sites for the vendors near your wedding site. Your property may already have relationships with these service providers.

News Articles: Lauril’s Loft White Dove Release in Bellingham, WA
Twinkle lost his toe in an unfortunate garage door accident and now lives at the neighbor’s house. Ghio’s children suspect he ran away because he couldn’t attract a mate as an amputee.

Ghio, owner of Lauril’s Loft White Dove Release, still has 28 more homing pigeons (rock doves), which are trained to return to Ghio’s farm.

Real white ring-neck doves do not have a homing instinct and are not used in releases.

Ghio, 37, named her business after her two children, Lauren, 7, and Riley, 9. She involves both kids in the business and plans to turn it over to them when they reach high school age.

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Auburn Journal : Top Stories
Kathy Dusart of Doves of White releases several feathered friends after the river blessing ceremony at the Confluence Festival Sunday. The doves return home to Colfax.

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The Dove Release
You could argue that this isn’t an accessory, but it’s our article, so we’re calling it one. Doves aren’t the key characters in Disney’s version that they were in the original Grimm story – and thank goodness for that – but they still define the moment when the prince and princess unite in marriage. For any Cinderella wedding, they’re a must.

But some “dove” handlers (the doves are actually white homing pigeons) have something more to offer the princess bride, such as ornate pumpkin coach carriages that double as cages. These can be placed near the altar for some romantic cooing action, then rolled down the aisle for a dramatic release once you’ve become husband and wife. For the biggest fireworks-like sensation, release the first two doves yourselves, but let pro handlers manage the rest.

…What happens to them?
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By: Daniel Engber

Huge crowds turned out in Hiroshima Saturday on the anniversary of America’s nuclear attack in World War II. A bell rang at 8:15 a.m., exactly 60 years after the bombing, and 1,000 doves were released into the sky. What happens to the doves after they fly away?

It depends on what kind of birds they are and how they’re raised. Newspaper accounts don’t identify the species released in Hiroshima, but white “peace” doves—the kind pictured in Picasso’s famous poster—fare very badly in the wild. After centuries of domestic breeding, the white ring-neck dove is ill-equipped for urban survival. Bird rescue workers say that a ring-neck dove released in a city will likely starve—if it doesn’t get hit by a car or eaten by another bird first. (more…)

Soaring on wings of beauty
Peaceful Messenger
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By Jennifer Brandler

Ron and Toni Bell, owners of a dove-release business in Cheney, often field a number of inquiries about their birds.

Before they respond, the couple would like to answer one question they figure everyone’s got on their minds.

“We’ve never had a problem with our birds messing on anyone,” Ron Bell says. “We feed them light so they don’t unload on people.”

The Bells’ birds have attracted interest from businesses and private parties in the Spokane area since the couple started the business, called Peaceful Messenger, in August 2002, Toni Bell says. The couple released the birds at 16 events last year, and have booked six events so far for this year’s season, which runs from early April to the end of October. (more…)

We release white homing pigeons at special events in the Dayton, Ohio area such as wedding, memorials, or funerals. The site of a flock of white birds rising in the air will add a romantic and memorable touch to your event. The cost of renting the birds depends on the number of birds desired and the distance the birds will have to travel from the event to their home. Please call George Marcum at (937) 224-3447 for more information.