With the holiday taking center-stage this week and 2 sets of guests to get ready for,
let’s have a little photo-fun today, shall we?
In the eternal battle of cat vs dog, on which side do you generally fall?
Todd and I? Are dog people. Even though we are currently sans canine companionship and laugh at the LOLcats with the best of ’em, we swoon over some floppy-eared, waggy-tailed goodness.
And combining bow-wows with the vows? That brings the ‘awwwww’ to a whole ‘nother level. Take a look at these pretty pooches hamming it up for the wedding photographers:
Sources: Style Me Pretty 1, 2, 3, 4
Sources: Style Me Pretty 1, 2, 3 and Flickr
Sources: Style Me Pretty, Offbeat Bride, Lauren Kinsey, Style Me Pretty
What I find interesting, though, is something I stumbled upon while researching wedding traditions (ages ago, for a writing project): it was considered bad luck for a dog (or any creature, really) to walk between the bride and groom at the wedding so dogs used to be absolutely verboten at weddings! This harkens back to a time when it was thought that evil spirits would routinely inhabit animals, thus the spirit walking between the bride and groom was a very bad thing.
It’s a lovely thing being enlightened and not having to worry about those things anymore, but a great man once said not to work with children or animals as both are unpredictable. If you do choose to have your 4-legged friend as a part of your wedding, keep these tips in mind:
- Designate a handler for Fido, someone who’s already in the wedding party or maybe a House Party member, that Fido knows and is used to taking orders from.
- Do not entrust the real rings to your canine ring-bearer (dogger?) as even the most obedient dog is still a dog. One good “Squirrel!” at the wrong time and you’ll be borrowing bands for the ceremony.
- Be prepared. Scout out of good spot for Spot to take a walk both before and after the ceremony and have your designated dog walker equipped with baggies, etc. Wet wipes are good if paws could get muddy pre-pictures (don’t make the photograph Photoshop paw prints from the wedding gown).
- Remind all small children that chocolate is very dangerous for dogs and not to feed any groom’s cake to them, no matter how much they beg!
But if you’re the superstitious (or just cautious) type, you might want to save the furkids for the family holiday card.
And if you’d like to see more picture-perfect pooches, check out my Dogs in Wedding Photos board at Pinterest.com
Meanwhile, Todd and I will be checking out the National Dog Show hosted by the Kennel Club of Philadelphia after the Macy’s Parade. We’ll be rooting for the Basset Hound, the French Bulldog and the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.
Will you be watching?
Someday, when you two decide to adopt (a pooch) can we have a “baby shower”? I mean, to me it wouldn’t seem weird, but then again, I know a number of couples who are sans human children.
I would have no problem with it (as Todd says: we throw a party for any reason *chuckles*) but when I proposed such a thing when Mom first got Molly I was shot down by others for it being an absolutely ridiculous notion. *harumph*
And yet, since then, we’ve seen television shows with people holding a “bark mitzvah” and “cat-echisms” for their pets. For many people, a pet is an adopted member of the family, so there’s no reason that we can’t celebrate birthdays and other special days just as we would with humans.