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Pet Shout-outs in Ceremony?

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DJ, on May 4, 2016 at 3:51 PM

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Has anyone ever talked about the furbabies during their ceremony? I really wanted to bring my dogs to our destination wedding in Sedona and even had a plan in place to do it, but FH convinced me it would be too much stress. As a compromise, we're going to work them into the ceremony. Our officiant just sent a first draft which talks a bit about our furbabies and then goes into a reading that 'comes from them'. Is that too much? I honestly think it's cute, but wanted to get an opinion since I've never heard anyone mention their pets in a ceremony before. (Although thinking about it, the last few weddings I've attended, the couples didn't have pets...)

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Master January 2017
BoozyBaker · on May 4, 2016 at 5:35 PM
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As someone who is madly in love with her two dogs, I don't think it's weird. If you had children you might want to mention them as well. Who is anyone to judge what can be super important to a person and what can't?

I'm having a super local wedding and wanted to have them walk me down the aisle but then there's the thing of "where do they -go- after? what happens if all these people freak them out? etc.etc." So we're just having two specialty cocktails named after them instead.
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2016beachwedding · on May 4, 2016 at 5:37 PM
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Please don't do that. Children are very different then pets. I adore my pets but they are not on the same level as your child would be. It's a bit creepy
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Just Said Yes September 2020
· on September 11, 2020 at 3:40 PM
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Honestly, the wedding is for you two as a couple. Not everyone else. You should do what you want to do, not what you think everyone else would want you to do. Just because someone may think it is "weird" doesn't necessarily mean that it isn't a good fit for YOUR wedding. Do what makes YOU TWO happy!!
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Expert November 2020
Shirley · on September 11, 2020 at 3:51 PM
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I think you should do whatever you feel like! If you want to mention your pups, go right ahead.
As a guest would I think it's a bit odd? Yeah. Do I think furbabies as a concept is silly? Yeah. Is it my wedding? No.
(I am a dog lover who cries at the drop of a hat about my dogs and has grieved the loss of one, but I always feel weird saying furbabies because I know that parent-child bond can really only happen between a human mother/father and human child.)
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