Wedding Dogs
A Celebration of Holy Muttrimony
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Wedding Dogs captures man’s best friend at 75 weddings—dogs as the best man, maid of honor, ring bearer, or another member of the wedding party! Decked out in little doggy tuxedos or sporting a wreath of roses around their necks, these pooches share in the wedding couple’s big day.
Each photograph is accompanied by a brief essay telling the dog’s (and the couple’s) story. A perfect wedding, bridal shower, or groom’s gift, Wedding Dogs shares the joy of the moment when dogs join in the celebration of their owners’ most special day.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Dogs attend weddings, often making up the bridal party, in this lighthearted catalogue of four-legged matrimonial revelers. Toepfer writes: "When my parents were married, my dad's best man was a Labrador and my mum's maid-of-honor was a Dalmatian." A broad range of weddings, breeds, and locations are covered. Each wedding features a canine photograph and comments from the newlyweds. An "exuberant kiss" is planted on a bride in Montreal, a lathering, in fact. Bride Casi in Virginia recalls, "The dogs totally outshined me at my own wedding!" Kelly, whose pugs couldn't make the ceremony, made pug cake toppers, had pug buttons hidden in her bouquet, and included pix of the three pugs on the wedding announcement. Outdoor weddings show a more appropriate environment for the shaggy guests, being amenable to common complaints of barks and rowdiness. A great picture of a hulking mastiff mix shows him absconding with the bride's bouquet; perhaps a greater infraction occurs when "Romeo, enthralled by his mistress's dress, immediately grabbed a mouthful and commenced a one-sided game of tug-of-war." Chipper captions work in tandem with precious pictures of dapper canines: "While other guests shed tears of joy, Addie merely shed." 75 photos.
