The fallout from dating a shitty person who is also a shitty musician: really bad sad songs written about you when its over. Stop trying to rhyme my name with everything! Quit trying to use metaphors. You’re not smart enough and you’re doing it wrong! Learn a new goddamn chord for chrissakes!

My friend made these masks of our cat’s face and surprised us with them during the group photos before the ceremony. She rules.

We wanted our dog, Arthas, to walk down the aisle, and he was supposed to be brought off to the side, but he ended up standing with the groomsmen, so we decided he was just a groomsman and that was that. Makes sense, because he’s totally my husband’s baby. Here he is, being escorted by two bridesmaids. He had a bow…

Not my wedding or my pet, but my sister had a beach wedding that included her two pittie babies and young niece and nephews. One nephew spent the whole ceremony digging himself a hole to sit in and the other (my kid) basically made out with one of the dogs the whole time.

Damn I wish I wasn’t so late now I think this won’t be seen but oh well! We had our dog Bullwinkle be part of our ceremony and stay for the party. We thought he would just chill next to the bridesmaids but he wanted to be front and center for our vows. Our wedding was in the backyard of my in laws so that made it…

Not my wedding but my eldest brother.

We just had ours on our guest book post card table.

One of our groomsmen was a blind man who had two guide dogs - his working dog and his newly retired dog. His retired dog was one of my favorite dogs ever - I had played with him (when he was off duty) since I was in college. So obviously we wanted him to be part of the ceremony too.

Had a destination wedding, so our greyhound couldn't be there, but she was in the engagement photo.

Our English Bulldog was the ring bearer - there were ribbons attached to his tux to hold the rings, and my nephew walked him down the aisle.

Toby was our ring bearer. He behaved super well, surprisingly. Finding a wedding venue that allowed dogs was the biggest problem. We had an extra groomsman that was our dedicated “dog wrangler” for the evening.

Our 6 year old white fluffy mutt Dixie Belle was our ring terrier. I made her a floofy tutu because my dress was floofy, so was the flower girl’s and hell, why not. I clipped the rings to her tutu with a teeny carabiner, and she followed the flower girl up like aisle with enthusiasm. When they got to the groom, he…

Sadly I don’t think it exists in photo.

My dog was our “Ringpupper” and I'm so glad I included him. Pros: super cute and a fun add-on to our wedding (since he really IS family) Cons: a little complicated figuring out where he would go afterwards. Yes, would recommend.

She wore a tie and greeted the florist.

We so badly wanted to have Kenny Loggins be there on our big day, but our venue didn’t allow dogs. So instead, we posted this handsome picture of Kenny, with a sign that informed the guests that in lieu of favors we had made a donation to the Oregon Humane Society on behalf of Kenny. Ya ya ya ya I know, some of you…

We wanted to incorporate our cats in some way, but knew it would be too much of a hassle to have them in the actual wedding. While we were going over the cake design, they told us they could print out whatever we wanted on sugar paper so we decided to have our two cats as the cake toppers. Not sure what happened with…

Our pups were our “ring bearers” at our wedding in 2010, on a small farm. The long hair dachshund Duke was hot and grumpy and shorter than the grass and slept through the ceremony. The Pomeranian-mutt-rescue Ted spotted a chicken across the yard and danced and “talked” through the entire thing, he wanted that damned…

Sort of. We have two cats. Big, old girls. I grew up in the south, where groom’s cakes are a thing (they’re usually funny or about the guy’s interests) and often at the rehearsal dinner. My parents had two cakes made for the rehearsal dinner that were life sized renderings of our cats. It was amazing. A little…

My dog wasn’t a part of our ceremony but came to the reception! He wore a little doggie tuxedo that matched what my husband wore.