Lara and the Doggy Social team are AMAZING; you must book them NOW! I have two high-energy herding dogs, Benny and Jeter, and I am one of those dog moms with extremely high expect...ations over how they are cared for - they only ever go to "grandma's" house (even the mention of "grandma" gets one of my dogs to head tilt 90 degrees). When we started planning for our wedding, the anxiety set in over who was going to care for our two boys the day of the festivities. We were going to be away from home for 15 hours and all of our normal "go-tos" (aka, grandma) were going to be partaking in the wedding festivities with us - so who was going to watch our babies? I came across Doggy Social from the Urban Daisy (our wedding venue) website of "unique vendors" and from the first correspondence, everything was pawsome (as Lara would say).
Maybe I'm overprotective, but I think our boys require special care given their herding tendencies - I wanted to be sure that whoever watched them understood their intensity, slight obsessions with people/toys/food, jumping, and sometimes legit herding. I wanted our boys to not only be cared for, but a part of our special day, and then tucked in for bed at night. Doggy Social went above and beyond in all of these!
Lara and Annamarie picked our boys up from our house and brought them to our wedding venue where they let them sniff around to get comfortable with the venue before our “furst look”. With the photographer and videographers ready to go, they unleashed the boys and let them run to us - it was the most magical moment watching them mad-dash towards my husband and me. They used treats and squeaker toys to help them pose for photos and took them outside for walks and potty during downtime. Then it was ready for the big event. After I (the bride) finished walking down the aisle, it was the boys' turn. Lara and Annamarie let them loose once again as they ran towards us down the aisle and stood by our sides the entire ceremony with Lara and Annamarie close by in case they got too fidgety. They were able to hang out a bit more during cocktail before Lara took them back to our house for some more play, dinner, and snuggles. Lara made sure they were all tucked in for bed before heading out for the evening and even gave our kitty some love!
As I mentioned, I have very high expectations over how my dogs are cared for. Anytime I saw Lara and Annamarie interacting with them I was blown away. They were so gentle and were able to guide them through a fairly chaotic day with lots of people moving about. Our wedding was a few weeks ago and we still get people commenting about how the dogs running down the aisle was one of their favorite parts of our wedding. We’ve gotten some sneak peek photos back and I am absolutely in love with the ones of our pups. I know they won’t be around forever, but I will be forever grateful they were a part of our big day in such an amazing way, all thanks to Doggy Social.
Thank you!
Jenna, Logan, Benny, and Jeter (and Moore)