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UKbride Member Request 20 Aug 2017

Hi, I know it may sound weird to some but my dog recently passed away and...

Hi, I know it may sound weird to some but my dog recently passed away and she was so important to me. I don't know why but I don't think my big day will feel the same without her there :-(, do any of you have any advice in how to incorporate her somehow so she is there with me? Thank you in advance. :'(

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UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 20 Aug 2017

Sorry to hear your sad news Maybe if you still have the dog tag put it in your flowers like some people do with lockets xx

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 20 Aug 2017

so sorry to hear about your dog my cousins husband had a bracelet made from her dogs collar after she had passed away. the name tag was on a blue ribbon so was incorporated as something borrowed (name tag) something blue (the ribbon) something new (the bracelet) - my cousin loved it x

Sarah Jackson
Sarah Jackson 20 Aug 2017

Have your favorite photo strategically placed somewhere, maybe?

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 20 Aug 2017

We lost our dog, despite booking a whole dog friendly wedding. We used her food bowls filled with flowers as part of the ceremony, had a paw print on the handfasting cord, my hubby wore her dogtag as part of his button hole

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 20 Aug 2017

Have a charm photo on your bouquet. My nan died when I was little and my grandad has sadly recently had a stroke so cannot come to our wedding so this is what I'm having, that way they'll be with me. It's not weird at all, sorry for your loss x

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 20 Aug 2017

A picture of it attached to you're bouquet dog colour around you're leg instead of a garter your rings linked into collor

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 20 Aug 2017

Agree with dog tag on flowers. My dad still had our dogs name tag on his keys

Jemma Hammond
Jemma Hammond 20 Aug 2017

How long have you got till your wedding. My dog passed away and for my birthday my mum has a charm with his ashes in. Some people have said it's odd but I'm going to love it and cherish it. It does take 6-8 weeks though xx

Siobhan Ireland
Siobhan Ireland 20 Aug 2017

I am so so sorry for your loss. I completely understand where you are coming from, we had our boy at our wedding. Maybe a little photo charm on your bouquet? Light a candle specially for them. Sx

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 20 Aug 2017

My auntie had little icing versions of her cats alongside her cake, their names embroidered on to her garter and pictures of them in a beautiful frame on the top table xx

Emma Richardson
Emma Richardson 20 Aug 2017

Why not get a necklace with her picture on or something so she's with you or something In your flowers

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 20 Aug 2017

Have the same feeling about my cat who died over two years ago. We planted a silver lining liquorice shrub over his grave, and we'll be using stems from it in my bouquet and the boutinnieres. I'm also having a memorial pendant with a leaf from the plant and some of his fur made which I'll wear then and everyday. Know exactly how you feel, I have dreams where he walks down the aisle in front of me :'(

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 20 Aug 2017

You can get gems made from the ashes. You could get a ring or necklace made and then your dog will always be with you.

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 20 Aug 2017

Could you perhaps get her ashes made into a necklace? That's what I did with my cat... I chose blue to be my 'something blue', too.

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 20 Aug 2017

My dogs are still with me, but won't be at the actual wedding with us. I'm having clay versions of their faces made, which will be hung on my bouquet. Having them done by Victoria Rodgers Customised Characters, she has already made me two larger hanging decs of them, so I know they'll be fab! x

https://www.facebook.com/VictoriaRodgersCustomisedCharacters/

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UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 20 Aug 2017

I would like my dog to be a part of my ceremony but I don't know what to do either

Nicola Mooney
Nicola Mooney 20 Aug 2017

I totally understand this; my dog is still with us but i felt very guilty her not being at my wedding! She is part of the family and I missed her so much. We've just got back from honeymoon and I'm wide awake counting the hours till I can go and collect my baby in the morning 💓💓💓

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 20 Aug 2017

Put her tag on your bouquet

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 20 Aug 2017

You could wrap her collar around your bouquet, or attach her name tag to a bracelet/necklace.
Sorry for your loss; my dogs mean the world to me and want them at my wedding, even if the venue is perfect, we won't go there if they don't allow dogs!

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 20 Aug 2017

I have a silver necklace with my cats pawprints on that I got for my 21st and haven't taken it off! ( just turned 24) I also have them on charm beads on my bracelet. The company is hand on heart and I thoroughly recommend them! I will probably wear my necklace on my wedding day :) - we recently lost them both so will be my way of having them with me x

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 20 Aug 2017

'Ashes to glasses' can turn a spoonful of the ashes of your beloved late pooch into multiple wearable pieces so you can incorporate them into your wedding.
if it were and my cat Penelope had passed, I would have a fur clipping taken for a locket and her ashes turned into a pandora charm. I would also have a small photograph of her framed as we are having a table at the ceremony with photographs of all deceased love ones who can't be there but would be otherwise.
Sorry for your loss xxx

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 20 Aug 2017

Do you have ashes left at all, my mum had some of my dads made into a small diamond which I will be carrying close to me at my wedding x

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 20 Aug 2017

Her dog tag in you bouquet? Xx

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 20 Aug 2017

Why not put a different photo of your dog on each table at the reception

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 20 Aug 2017

A nice photo of her on a chair x

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 20 Aug 2017

There's a place called ashes to glasses, they do necklaces, rings and earrings that are made using a loved ones ashes. It's a lovely way of keeping them close. I hope you find something xx

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 20 Aug 2017

Could do something like this on your flowers x

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UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 20 Aug 2017

I lost my little sister earlier this year and I got her Ashes put into my wedding ring set in blue resin so it was my something blue too. I got married on Friday

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UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 21 Aug 2017

Maybe something like this on a necklace? They put your own photo in it. https://www.soufeel.co.uk/personalized-photo-charm-with-paw-charm-925-sterling-silver.html?gclid=CjwKCAjw5uTMBRAYEiwA5HxQNkrM45KhvD65C0laSb9YfXegTsrrcRBfRO8LlWgmA1ThklwSZGFGrBoCn7UQAvD_BwE

Hollie Clifford
Holly Clifford 21 Aug 2017

Have a small table reserved with a bowl of doggy treats and collar. && put a note saying for all those that can't be here today xx

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 21 Aug 2017

I am in exactly the same position. We had intended for my dog to be the ring bearer but sadly we had to have her pts a week ago. We are having a cushion made with a picture of her on it so she can still bear the rings and I have a small clipping of her fur that I'm having put in a soft pouch and stitched into my wedding dress near my heart. I feel your pain.xxx

Natalie Edmonds
Natalie Edmonds 21 Aug 2017

You can have bouquet charms. Get one made with a photo in and then she can walk you down the aisle. 😍 xx

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 21 Aug 2017

Get a little model made of her for the top of your wedding cake.

Laura Tiffany
Laura Tiffany 21 Aug 2017

Ashes into Glass would be a lovely way of taking her with you xx

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 21 Aug 2017

Ashes in to glass, a lovely company that put a loved ones ashes in to a beautiful piece of jewellery, something you can wear proudly on your big day xxx

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 21 Aug 2017

Have her dog tag woven into your bouquet, so you can walk her down the Alter

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 21 Aug 2017

There is a company that makes jewellery containing ashes from people/pets that have died and been cremated. Maybe look into this? Ashes into glass is the name of it xx
https://www.facebook.com/Ashesintoglass/

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 21 Aug 2017

If you have the dogs ashes went not look at the page 'ashes onto glass' they could make you a wedding necklace or something using His actually ashes. Then he'll definitely be with it through your big day... You can even pick the colour, so you could get blue, for your something blue item.

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 21 Aug 2017

You can get little picture charms to go around your bouquet x

Laura Lindsley
Laura Lindsley 21 Aug 2017

Maybe a photo of her on a table with some flowers her dog collar if you have it just place on the picture frame nicely so you can remember her and she can be watching over you 😊 Sorry for your loss though

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 21 Aug 2017

Put a picture of her on your bouquet. I did this with my dads picture x

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 21 Aug 2017

I had a photo of my dad on my flowers as he passed away a few yrs back you could do something like this

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UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 21 Aug 2017

I had a paw print iced on my wedding cake x

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 21 Aug 2017

Ashes to glasses xxxx

Laura Stewart
Laura Stewart 21 Aug 2017

Ashes to glass - get a ring or necklace made with your pups ashes, means your fur baby will be with you always x

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 21 Aug 2017

We supply memory baubles & have just designed a pet memory bauble with stand! No longer by my side...but forever in my heart...Contact Parkers for more info (another photo in comments too)
https://www.facebook.com/Parkers2017/

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UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 21 Aug 2017

A model on the cake topper. Her picture in a memorial locket on your bouquet

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 21 Aug 2017

My beloved Stella Labrador died 4 months before our wedding and she definitely would have been there if she had still been with us. So we had her incorporated into our wedding cake topper along with out 2 cats and Jack Russell. It was lovely to be able to include her x

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