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Chances are if you’ve got a pet and you’re reading Offbeat Bride, you’d really like to have your pet at your wedding. But sometimes you can’t have your dog at your wedding because Fido just isn’t cool with crowds, or maybe you’ll be the one who’s stressed, or maybe you know your cat would just be bored.
…Still. You’d really like your pet to be a part of your wedding. And wouldn’t it be cool if your guests knew just how much your pets mean to you?
Give your guests face time with cardboard cut-outs of your gorgeous mugs
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Julie and Tim solved that problem with “Flat Zooey.” They had a huge cardboard cutout made of their real dog (Zooey, obvs) and included the cutout as a stand-in during their ceremony. As Julie said:
“I had a three-foot cut-out of our dog made as a joke, since our real dog, Zoey, couldn’t be there. It would have been too stressful for me to be worrying about her the whole time. We ended up using the cut-out in the ceremony and she became a prop for the photo booth. Half of our photo booth photos have our Flat Zoey in them. It’s hysterical!”
Bonus — the paper pooch made more than a few appearances as a photo booth prop!
Want to have your pet featured as a cardboard cutout at YOUR wedding?
Here are just a few of the many folks on Etsy who can make a cardboard cutout of your pet for your wedding…
…the best part of having a cardboard pet cutout at your wedding?
You might get texts about your pets for months after your wedding like Julie does:
My mother loved it so much she kept the cut-out and is now taking pictures of Flat Zoey doing weird things and texting them to me daily. It’s like the wedding never ended.
Ceremony stand-in? Photo booth prop? Guestbook attendant? How would your cardboard cutout canine (or cat or chameleon) help out at your wedding?
I love this idea!
We could not have our 2 furbabies at our wedding, so I set up a photo shoot with them and a sign that read “Our humans got married!” Then I framed the pic and put it on our sweetheart table so they could be there with us in spirit. I also used the pic in a few other small places at the wedding, like next to our card box.
This solves my problem perfectly! Can’t wait to get cardboard cutouts of my dogs for my wedding!!
Oh, yes! THIS! This is what I have been searching for! We have two cats and they are our children! (I know I am kinda crazy cat lady, but I embrace it!) I have been struggling with ways to include them, since they will have zero desire to be out of the comfort of their home. This is perfect! Also, my flower girl, who doesn’t want to be referred to as a “flower girl,” can now be my “Cat Wrangler.” #stealthisidea, is right!
This makes me want to have a pet already, just so I can do this! (No pets allowed in this apartment, and rent is just too good to give up 🙁 )
Sooo… I just ordered one of my dog for our wedding from cardboardcutoutstandees.com and I cannot wait for it to arrive. This is a wonderful idea for the offbeat, pet-lover in all of us. Thanks for sharing.
We shamelessly stole this idea for our wedding two years ago. There are even some great pics of the toddler flower girl dancing with cardboard Charlie (our black lab mix). It was a big success, and our Charlie cutout is still a conversation starter in our house today.