PRO TIP: If you’d like Fido in your photos, here’s a couple of extra steps to take to make sure it’s not a scene from Marley & Me.
🐱For an engagement session, please tell your photographer you plan to bring the dog(s). Even bring a cat on a leash if you want! (@walter). I love to capture your pet family photo. Just don’t show up with one unexpectedly, because it’s damn near impossible to hold a jerking leash and a camera at the same time.
🐶 Our pets need another person in charge, like your mom or best man for example. They can bring your pet to the shoot for the first portion, and then take them back home when their 15-minutes of fame is over. I have learned over the years that dragging a dog around for 2 hours is not beneficial to anyone or your pictures. I only need a short amount of time with them.
🐷 On wedding day, if you’re getting ready in a hotel and would like the same quick photo op, simply make the same arrangements with a friend coming to the wedding later who does not need to be ready as early as you.
🐍 If you’d like the photo op during newlywed portraits, have a neighbor not attending the wedding to bring your pet to arrive 30 minutes after ceremony end time, just when family photos should be wrapping up. It’s simply a logistics game, because Fido has his own needs too! Any other helpful strategies when involving your pets in your photos?
