Why You Need Pet Friendly Vendors When Including Your Dog in Your Wedding
Including your dog in your wedding can make your special day even more memorable and meaningful. However, ensuring that your furry friend is welcome and comfortable at the wedding is absolutely crucial. A wedding paints your dream to reality through a team of individuals whose sole duty is to make you happy. Your dog at your wedding is one of these important pieces. This is exactly where pet-friendly wedding vendors come in.
First and foremost, hiring a wedding pet care service is essential. They will provide you with peace of mind, help ensure your pets’ safety and well-being, and allow you to fully enjoy your wedding day with your furry family members. But that’s not the question we’re here to answer. Still on the fence about hiring one, check out our ‘Why You Should Hire a Wedding Pet Care on Your Big day’
Pet friendly vendors work together as a team, with your wedding pet care service, to ensure you have a fabulous day. If including your furbaby in your wedding is as essential as most, hiring a non-pet friendly vendor may lead to disappointment.
Planning process smoother and more enjoyable for everyone involved. If you already know that your dog will be part of your big day no matter what, having dog-friendly vendors creates great teamwork with better communication, coordination, and less stress. Overall, it creates much better results.
Now, let’s get down to business.
What are Pet Friendly Wedding Vendors?
Pet-friendly wedding vendors are service providers with experience working with pets and are willing to accommodate couples who want to include their pets in their weddings. These vendors include venues, photographers, videographers, and wedding planners. Of course, a vendor’s experience with pets at weddings helps tremendously. Although, at the end of the day, as long as they like animals, your wedding pet care service will handle the rest.
Why is Hiring A Pet-Friendly Planner so Important?
Dogs similar to children need a little extra planning. We at Furever Us takes care of all the dog-related plans but we are part of the bigger team and if a planner is not pet friendly it can keep create uneasiness amongst others, they might not put a lot of importance towards the flower dog and might make sure that the furbaby is away from everyone else- which in turn can make them nervous. Pet friendly planners are great because they will understand the importance of having a furbaby and the unbelievable love that you feel for them. A dog loving planner will also be able to understand the logistics involved with having a pet at the wedding and work with the wedding pet sitter to make everything go smoother.
Why Is Hiring a Pet-Friendly Photographer and Videographer so important?
Hiring a pet-friendly photographer/videographer is crucial if you plan on including your dog at your wedding for the following several reasons:
- Comfort for your pet: A dog-friendly cinematographer will understand how to make your pet comfortable during the photo shoot. They will take the time to build a rapport with your dog and ensure they feel safe and secure as they approach them with a camera. This can help reduce stress for your pet and make them more cooperative during the shoot.
- Dog Friendly photographers will prioritize the puppers for photos. Summer temperatures can be brutal for furbabies. Making sure they get their turn first with photos will allow them to leave and go to an airconditioned space right away. Whether this is for not having them wait in the heat for their turn or just they are not waiting in the heat for their turn. In addition, they will work with you to get exactly the photos and poses you want with your dog.
- Experience with pets: Dog-friendly photographers have experience working with canines and know how to get the best shots while keeping your dog safe. They can anticipate your dog’s behavior and adjust their approach to capture the perfect image. Aside from your wedding pet care concierge who will also be monitoring the ‘dog of honor’s’ behavior/temperament, it is incredibly helpful when the photographer knows when the furry friend has just simply had enough.
- Creative ideas: Pet-friendly photographer will also have creative ideas for incorporating your pet into your wedding photos in unique and memorable ways. They may suggest poses, settings, or props that will highlight your pet’s personality and make your photos truly special.
They will listen to the couple’s needs and desires and remember all the photos they wanted. They will take more than asked, knowing they are a very important family member.
Everything said above goes for both the photographer and videographer. Hiring a pet-friendly cinematographers can help ensure that your pet is a happy and integral part of your special day and that you have beautiful and memorable photos to cherish for the rest of your life.
What do you miss out on if your vendors are not pet-friendly?
Having non-pet friendly vendors could delay the timeline. As a wedding pet care service, we ensure we are near the couple at all times in case the pawfect opportunity presents itself to include your dog in your wedding photos. That way, the dog of honor can be easily included, without wasting valuable time. Unfortunately, and sometimes, the event planner does not like dogs. In this case, we have been asked to wait somewhere quite far from the couple. This may result in missed opportunities or extra time spent catching up on photos of the bride and groom with their dog.
People who understand and love dogs know that they are not always predictable. Having vendors that go with the flow and understand this dramatically impacts the couple. They often are much less stressed and find fun opportunities to include them that feel natural but are also great candid shots. Oftentimes, couples want their dogs to come down the aisle. Pet-friendly photographers know where to stand and how to position themselves pawfectly so they are not in the dog’s way, while still being able to catch the big moment. They adapt to each situation organically and without stress.
Every furbaby is unique and special
Many dogs are weary of cameras. When a pet-friendly photographer or videographer says hi to the doggies first, get some doggie kisses, and then try to get some shots- it creates a great collaboration. Remember, dogs are great at reading energy. If your wedding vendor does not like or care for dogs, your dog may be more anxious and less cooperative. At the end of the day, the most impawtant people of the day are the bride and groom, and of course, the furbaby.
How do you know if you have a dog/pet-friendly wedding vendor?
Everyone can extend the truth and say they love dogs, but here are some suggestions to help with this process:
- Do they have dogs of their own? What kind of dog(s)? It is impawtant to listen to the way they talk about their dog. Frequently, dog lovers can sniff out other dog lovers in an instant.
- Check out their social media. Do they post couples with dogs? Is it more than just on ‘National Dog’ or ‘National Puppy’ Day?
- Can they show you a gallery of a couple they worked with that had dogs?
- Have they previously worked with a wedding pet care that can vouch for them?
- An excellent way to know if they are, is by meeting them with your dog, for an engagement shoot or just some fun couple pictures. Let’s face it, your dog will be the best judge of character. Do they take the time to meet them and interact with them? Does your dog like them? That will say it all.
- Do they allow dogs in their venue? Are they on a pet friendly venue list similar to our pet friendly venue list.
- Do they have a wedding pet care listed on their preferred vendor list similar to this one:
In conclusion, when you want to include your dog in your wedding, hiring pet-friendly wedding vendors is crucial for a successful wedding. It can make the wedding planning process smoother and more enjoyable for everyone involved. If you already know that your dog will be part of your big day no matter what, having dog-friendly vendors creates great teamwork with better communication, coordination, and less stress. Overall, it creates much better results. If you are in South Florida check out our pet friendly vendor list and see if you vendor is on it. Don’t see them just send us an email at info@fureverus.com.
