Wedding-day pet care
An attendant for your pet on the wedding day — transport to the ceremony, handling during photos and the processional, and boarding or a ride home after.
Also called: pet attendant, dog, dog handler, pet sitter, dog of honor, ring bearer dog, pet chaperone, pet boarding, dog sitter, cat, pets at the wedding.
When couples book this
Usually booked about 4 months out. It moves with your date.
Your wishlist, before you talk to anyone
Questions you can answer early — they become the yardstick you compare candidates against.
What part would you love your pet to play?
Wishlist mirror of the pet's role you set once you book.
What would you like the provider to cover?
How much wedding or event experience matters to you?
What to ask each candidate
Facts that differ from one vendor to the next — worth writing down while you shop.
Does the provider transport the pet?
Does the provider board the pet after the event?
The provider's handling notes
Recorded per candidate: group size they handle, event experience, how they manage a nervous animal in a crowd.
What settles once booked
The working details you and your vendor pin down together.
Who's the pet?
Name, species, breed, size, temperament around crowds — everything a handler asks first.
What's the pet's part in the day?
When does the attendant's coverage start and end?
The handoff schedule
Who hands the pet to whom, where, and when — arrival for photos, the ceremony moment, and the departure handoff.
Comfort plan for the pet
Heat, noise, and long stretches without a break are the day's real risks for an animal — the plan states them factually.
Is the pet wearing anything?
What time do they arrive?
The time you agreed together, not an estimate worked back from the ceremony.
What time do they finish?
Who do you call on the day?
The name and cell number of whoever is on site — not the office line.
Where do they come in, and where do they park?
The load-in door or dock, where the vehicles go, and who opens up.
Do they need a meal?
Counts toward your caterer's vendor-meal number.
What balance is due on the day?
Your own figure, from your contract — what is still owed when they arrive.
What gratuity are you planning?
Your own figure. It rides beside the balance on the day-of money sheet.
How it lands on your day
Pet arrives for photos
Pet's ceremony moment
Pet departs to boarding / home
How it’s usually priced
Usually priced as one flat amount.
Lines that sometimes ride along: Pet transport, Overnight boarding, Overtime (per hour).
What your vendor reads from your plan
Book on or off Beetrothed — either way the plan assembles a brief your vendor can work from: the event, the pet, care plan, coverage, contacts.
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Plan your wedding-day pet care — and everything around it
These questions live as one cell of a connected plan: your budget, guest list, checklist and timeline all read from the same answers. See the whole board work, or join the waitlist and we’ll write when it’s your turn.
We will write when there is something worth telling you.