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A White Dove Release can Symbolize:
Marital Fidelity
Doves mate for life.
Equality & Devotion to Family
Our birds work together, equally, to raise their family. Together, they choose the site and build their nest. They both incubate the eggs and they both feed the young. «more about the birds»
Fertility
Doves can raise young all year round in climates where they can find plenty of food all year long. They only lay two eggs at a time, but they can raise a pair of young each month.
Loyalty to Home
Seeing a dove on your wedding day is said to ensure a happy home.
Our birds have a fierce desire to return home to their loft and their family.
Other thoughts
Their powerful flight suggests individual strength, yet they flock together demonstrating how powerful the social bonds are within their flock.
It was believed that doves choose their mates on February 14th. This belief gave rise to honoring one's lover or sweetheart on that day.
White doves represent these Goddesses of Love:
4,000 B.C. Magna Mater, the mother godess
1750 B.C. Babylonian goddess Ishtar
900 B.C. Phoenician goddess Asarte
Greek goddess Aphrodite
Roman goddess Venus source: D.Haag
In Arabic literature, the dove is a symbol of love and romance. Wikipedia
Early Greeks and Romans viewed doves as representing love, devotion, and care for the family. In those ancient cultures, the groom would give a dove to the bride as a symbol of his promise to care for her and their family. Bella Online