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Sam from Sudbury, Ontario writes:
With our wedding day being roughly 14 months away we have started picking our wedding attendants. For myself it was easy because my girls have been my best friends my whole life. For my fiancé that was a different story. He knew right away who is best man was going to be and one other of his groomsmen, but that left him still missing two others to stand on his side. He finally figured out who they were going to be and we now have four standing on each side. I couldn’t pick between two of my girls to be the maid of honor so they have decided they will share the roll.
Our ring bearer will be my one bridesmaid little boy, who when it comes the time of the wedding will be almost three. Our whole wedding party is picked except for our flower girl. We have decided that it’s not that important if we don’t have one but it would just be nice to. I was reading a lot in wedding articles that couples have been using there four legged friends to be wedding attendants and through this could provide a solution to our problem.
My fiancé and I have a little blonde toy poodle who is very well behaved and would work great. Our ring bearer loves her and I figured that if he gets scared to walk down the aisle than he just needs to follow “pup”. I was not going to put a dress on my dog or anything and not even have her carry a basket just simply get a new collar to match the wedding party along with a leash.
I first proposed this idea to my girl attendants who all thought it would be a cute idea, than I proposed the idea to my fiancé who absolutely said “No!”. I figured I could work on him and eventually get her in as we do have some time. So I decided to casually ask our minister about this idea and he right out said no as well, which I guess is my fault because we are getting married in a church and apparently it is not allowed at his church.
So with that out of the way we decided that we will just go with out, but now my future mother in-law as brought up the fact that my fiancé has a cousin, which he doesn’t know to well who has a little girl that could work as our flower girl. My first reaction is just to smile but when you think of it, if he doesn’t even know his cousin that well how would he know the child that well to allow them in our wedding party? It’s an item to think about and a bridge we will have to pass soon with his mom to either go with family we don’t know or to go without.
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