Thoughts on including dogs in wedding?

I absolutely would involve them! I'm a big dog person, and my FH and I love our dog dearly and will be involving him in our day! Do what you two want to do!!!

We have a dog who is our baby, and we've thought about including her, however she just does not have the temperament for it at all. Most likely she'd be so excited to see me that my dress would be pulled off of me when she jumped on me in excitement

If your dogs are different and better behaved than ours, I say do what you want to do. My mom and I don't agree on everything with the wedding, but if it's something that we (FH and I) want as part of the day, then the final decision is ours to make.

Eh, I'd check with guests on possible allergies. I was at a wedding once where a guest got bitten by the dog that the couple swore was the sweetest thing ever.

If you want your dogs in your wedding and your ceremony venue doesn't have a problem, go for it!

I wouldn't do it, but I'm not a dog person and your wedding is not my wedding.

I'd just hope you make a plan for your dogs for after the ceremony. Will they go home? If so, how? Will they stay for the reception? Will this be a problem? Who will take care of them while you two are busy?

It's YOUR wedding not your mother's. You do you. Keep in mind dogs are funny and can't always do what you want... watch some wedding videos with dog's in the wedding party and you'll either laugh and love it or change your mind, depending on how you want your wedding to go off without issues. Good luck

I've given serious thought to it. Logistically, it would work out fine because of his temperament and the fact that the church is less than 5 minutes from our house, so it wouldn't be a problem to drop him off. But I think that I might just do some pictures instead!

I love these comments thank you!

Same answer I give to many questions: Do what YOU want, because it's YOUR wedding -- not your mother's.

Dog-specific advice: you know your dogs better than anyone else. If you are 100% absolutely sure your dogs will behave, then go for it. But if you have even the slightest doubt about their ability to behave, it might be best to keep them at home.

I love my dog, but I won't include him that day (despite everyone telling me I should.) I just feel like it would be too much for him around all of those people. But, you do what you want to do. Just make sure you have someone on dog duty.

As much as i love my animals, nope. I think pictures are fine but including the dogs can be a little much

I love my dog but no I wouldn't do this - there are too many things that could go wrong.

We got our baby this past August and we are so in love with her. She is a corgi. With SUCH a personality

Our venue is a luxury resort but very dog friendly, and initially I thought it would be the cutest thing in the world to have her "walk" down the aisle but with more thought we have decided it would just be too much. We'd have to have someone with her the entire day; and she is so spastic, with that many people she would run all over the place, bark incessantly, and try to eat everything in sight. She is a daughter to us but it would just fare better if she weren't there.

We would love to include our guy, but he is very needy, so he would want to be right next to us or between us during the ceremony. We had him in our engagement photos and if we were getting married locally he would be in the room with FH while he's getting ready and we would do a few pics with him. However it's a destination wedding and he doesn't travel well, so we won't do that to him.

I love the idea, especially because my dog is my 75-pound furry son. However, we decided against it because it will be a lot to care for him during the ceremony and our ceremony and reception are in the same place about 20 min away from home so we just worry that it would be cruel to have him stuck there the whole time. He also sheds a lot and we are concerned about those with allergies. I intend to take photos with him the day of at home.

My FH and I are so obsessed with our dog. He's our kid. We couldn't imagine the day without him there so he'll be there for the first look and act as our ringbearer- we hired someone who's full-time business is taking care of dogs at weddings so she'll be there to wrangle him for pictures, etc. and then she'll transport him to his daycare to be boarded overnight.

I did!

I will start by saying I am a certified dog trainer. I know my dog and know his capabilities. He is super relaxed and I knew he could handle it. He could not stay for the reception for obvious health code reasons and he is not a service animal.

I hired a sitter that made sure he was well exercised all day, got him dressed and brought him to the venue. He participated in the ceremony wonderfully and then the sitter took him for the rest of the night.

Know your dogs capabilities. If the wedding will over stimulate them, maybe just do engagement pics with them or a "first look".

We are considering having ours too. 1 we know for sure will be fine. She loves everyone. The other one is still young so as of right now, we could not include her. The way I see it at this point, it's all or nothing so if we cannot get the little one ready in time, they will both have to sit out...

We have a lot of dogs in our weddings, and we encourage it, but it really depends on your dog's personality and tolerance for non-routine events. Usually our couples will engage a dogsitter to keep track of their pet after the ceremony (In NJ, we have several sitters and two pet hotels that we recommend....). They'll do a first look and the aisle walk with their pets and then their fuzzies are gone.

If they can't be there in person, you can certainly ask your officiant to include a pet blessing in the ceremony!