What’s New, Pussycat?
February 22nd, 2008 @ 11:06 am by Mrs. Hummingbird
Growing up, I never really had pets.
Well okay, that is not completely true. The day before my seventh birthday, my parents brought me to the pet store and I picked out two goldfish which I named Alice and Abigail. Unfortunately, as is often the case with pet store goldfish, they both seemed to have contracted some sort of deadly fishy disease which caused them both to float to the top of their bowl within a month of purchase.
Heartbroken after two “burials at sea,” I wasn’t really interested in getting another animal companion and with family allergies, it seemed best if I remained pet free.
However, once I moved out on my own to my very own bachelor apartment in TO, it felt a bit weird being all by myself all the time, so when my dad’s friend’s cat had kittens and asked if I would like one, I jumped at the chance.
Getting a cat for the first time at 22 was a little bit strange and I wasn’t sure what to expect, but when I was handed Bettie for the first time, I knew she was mine.
Mr. Hummingbird grew up with a dog (R.I.P. Pep), so he was very much raised as a “dog person.” Though we weren’t living together at the time I got Bettie, he came with me to pick her up and was incredibly smitten with her too, wrapping his jacket around her carrier to keep her warm in the cold air of December and cuddling with her when we got her home to my place.
I know it’ll probably make me sound like the crazy cat lady saying this, but in the three and a half years that I’ve had Beebs, she’s really become a part of my family. She’s kept me company when Mr. Hums went away on business. She’s cheered me up when I have had a bad day. She’s snuggled into my lap when I’ve been sick. She’s been there through a lot and I kind of wanted her, in some small way at least, to be a part of our big day. However, since she is a cat and isn’t really trainable to do an aisle walk, I had to come up with a different solution, which is why I want to order these:
I know they cost a bit more than regular stamps because they’re custom, but I kind of like the idea of her crazy little face being associated with our wedding somehow since she is part of our family too.
Anyway, I know that lots of ladies around The Hive have pets, so I was curious - what kind of pets do people have? Are any of you doing anything to incorporate your pets into your wedding? Tell me about it!
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29 Responses to “What’s New, Pussycat?”
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Aww that is a cute idea for the stamps! I have two black labs. Both are adorable but I am also biased 
I am making our table numbers and they will all have black and white pictures of our little ones doing goofy things, looking innocant or at a special place we have vacationed to. Above the picture I bought some number stamps to identify the actual table. So far I love them. The hardest part is picking out the few good pictures we have of them.
Good luck and I am sure you will come up with something!
She is GORGEOUS, and I love her. If you’re ever in New Hampshire, bring her over for a play date with our three kitties.
She’s precious! We have a beautiful black cat named Marcos that I would love to have included in our wedding. Since he’s so beautiful (I’m no biased at all!!) and such a stark contrast to my white gown my photographer (who is amazing) will be coming to our place to snap a few pics of Marcos and me. I’d love a shot of him sitting on my train! We’ll see if he cooperates!
We have 4, count them 4 cats. I started with one and when my last roommate and I were sharing our first place together we adopted 3 more. The plan was to just get 1 more but i couldn’t resist the other 2 when I picked them up at a friends farm. So my cat Jack the Dog (he really does think he is a dog) had 3 kittens between the ages of 4 weeks and 3 months invade his house all at once. The male cat passed away about 3 months later and we ended up with Jack and the girls. Well, girls will be girls and we had a few friendly tomcats roaming the neighborhoos and ended up with 2 litters of kittens (we hadn’t saved enough for the spay and they kept sneaking out) a week apart. Lila had 4 long haired kittens (she is shorthaired) who all found homes and our other cat had 4 short haired kiteens (she was longhaired) but died 6 months after the kittens were born due to an infection from the spay. Her kittens were cute 2 boys, 2 girls, one of each in gray stripes and brown stripes. somehow we ended up keaping the boys. So we had Jack & Zippy(mine)and Lila & Goose (hers). When my roomate married 1 1/2 years ago her new husband was allergic to the cats, and they were traveling for his work. So we ended up with all four cats.
My FI claims he was not a cat person prior to meetign mine (I disbelieve this because he played with friend’s cat a lot) but he was converted very quickly by my cat Jack the Dog. The playing fetch and tail wagging obviously charmed him to his toes. Now the only cat who is more attached to me is Zippy. Gosse comes in for morning rubs by FI - he just walks over me. Lila follows him around - must be the pieces of kipper snack and tuna fish he gives her (the little chubb) and Jack will only play fetch with him.
I have a house rabbit - litter trained like a cat, greets you like a dog (OK doesn’t jump up, but runs to check you out). Don’t have any wedding plans for him. Crowds/ new people make him nervous.
We wanted our babies to be the “ring dogs” in our ceremony, however, it’s out of town and we’re getting married on the beach and we know they will both take a bee line towards the water so it’s a no go on that. There’s no stopping a water dog with the ocean waves as the temptress!
When I read Miss Cream Puff’s post earlier in Feb I adored the idea about naming your signature cocktails about your furry children so I’ve decided to copy her! We’ll have a Terrapintini (our German Shorthair’s name in Terrapin) and a Bubbas Belini (our English Springer’s name is Casey Jones but we lovingly call him Bubbas). We’ll put pics of them on the bar with the drink recipe for all to see!!
Thanks Miss Cream Puff for the awesome idea!!
I think our parents thought we were going too far, but we actually put our dog Ginger on the front of our invites! I loved a graphic I saw on our card lady’s website (no really, she even calls herself the card lady) and asked her to do something similar for us. You can see it on her website - go to ‘Current Projects’ and then search for ‘Christina L.’ It’s about 1/2 way down the (very long) page.
http://www.momentaldesigns.com/
Ginger just means so very much to both of us and we knew she couldn’t be with us on our wedding day, so this feels right.
What a beautiful cat! I have a 13 year-old calico Maine Coon cat named Jellybean and a 5 month-old blue bicolor Ragdoll kitten named Thelonious Monk. My FI was also not a cat person until he met Jellybean and my parents’ cats. He’s the main reason we got the kitten.
We weren’t really planning on having them involved in the wedding in anyway, but there are pictures on our wedding website!
OHMIGosh Bettie is too cute. I love her little face.
We have our fur child, Alex P. Kitten. I think I might have to make stamps out of his crazy face, too. Maybe we’ll use them on the thank you notes.
I have a shih tzu named Hershey Kiss. He’s black and white and was my Christmas present in 2006.
Since he’s already dressed in a tux, i plan to get him a bow-tie and have some portraits taken with just me and him.
We made a DIY pearl leash, and our 12 year old Yellow Lab will be walking down the Aisle with my Grandfather. He thought it was better than his walker! And she is happy she gets to sit in the Front Row with him. Our busy lives {happily} revolve around this dog, so we figured, it was only appropriate. Your Cat is beautiful, and those stamps will be great!
My cat Pebbles is super awesome. She is 16 years old, and I was worried about the honeymoon and leaving her and moving her to the Fiance’s house. We moved her in last week to help with adjusting, and she just loves it. She curls up on us while we watch TV.
No cat in the wedding though. We are having a bridal pic and an engagement pic on the wall, and I wanted Pebbles in the engagement pic, but the boy said no.
Is Bettie a Balinese seal point? She is sooo cute!
We had one cat at the time of the wedding, and the problem wasn’t trying to incorporate him…it was trying to keep him out of everything. He was all over the favors (completed, mind you…no cat fur for guests) and would glower at us if moved. Grumpy dang cat.
wow. if i made custom stamps of the cats, they’d be like… a pixel each.
i dont know how to incorporate the cats to our wedding (except for maybe severus since he’s black and halloween like…) but i really want to. there’s just so many of them that i don’t even know where to start!
awwww she’s adorable! i think your idea of picture stamps is a perfect way to include her.
since we can’t include our furbabies, we’ve put pictures of them on our website and in our photo guest book!
Aweeee! What a cute kitty!!!
The FI and I have a puppy and a kitty - neither of which are trainable for wedding duties. In order to put their stamp on our wedding, we will be incorporating their pictures into our slideshow. I think we’ll name their segment “The Fuzz Children”.
We have an 8 year old, 4 lb. teacup chihuahua who will be our ring bearer and thus be walked down the aisle by our flower girl. A number of people had asked if we were planning on incorporating Pablo into the ceremony and we weren’t, at first, but decided if we used him as a ring bearer, then my fiance’s neice would be able to participate, too.
WHAT A DOLLFACE!
She’s adorable. Putting them on picture stamps is a great idea, it’s just my Bosco (cat) has health problems, and I don’t have a picture of him in his heyday. Plus, my bf is SUCH a dog person. It’d kill him to have a cat on our invites, or anywhere else.
My brother and his fiancee got a dog while they were together. Even though they can’t have him at their wedding, the venue is allowing them one ice sculpture included in their package. My brother wants it to be of, what else, his dog, a puggle. I think it’d be hilarious, but I don’t know if the bride approves. If it were me, I’m not sure I would either!
I know I’ve already told you about our menagerie and how mr beanchar had pics of them in his locket cufflinks at the wedding, but I just wanted to chime in with another “Bettie is ADORABLE!”.
It’s a good thing we aren’t independently wealthy or I could EASILY be that crazy lady with 1,000 cats and dogs.
ok she’s beautiful… do you realize you were handed a FREE ragdoll! i myself have a blue lynx point, mitted ragdoll named Misty, whom I am just smitten with as well, she’s almost 2, but ragdolls are like one of the top 5 breeds right now for cats! breeders can also fetch $500 - $1000 per kitten for them!!!!
enjoy that pretty kitty, she’s beautiful, and i bet very charming, just the way a ragdoll should be… oh and aren’t their eyes just amazing??
Now i’m the one who sound like a cat lady! ha
I’d like to know what breed/type Bettie is too–she’s beautiful!!!
I really want a long-haired kittie just like her, but my FI is somehow dedicated to short-hair cats. Way less fun, imo…
Awwww!!!! She’s so cute!!!! I love kitties, and I definitely don’t think you’re a crazy cat lady (if you are, I am one too. It’s not a bad thing to be.).
awww im so glad you have major cat love!! i feel like everyone around me HATES cats (or are allergic to them) but your cat is BEAUTIFUL!
I thought she was a Balinese originally, but it turns out Bettie is indeed a ragdoll cat. She is much more cuddly than I ever thought a cat could be and often sits on my lap while I am writing my WB entries.
Beebs, the smallest Bee!
She is fabulous! I LOVE the kitten pics and that she has kept her baby face. I am a total sucker for the puffy kittens–hence my beautiful DLH and my poor fiance’s constant allergies. Now that I am getting married there is no “crazy cat lady” stigma and I want many more!
We are having a table at the reception with pictures of our parents’ wedding portraits and our grandparents’ portraits, and since it is the table of our loved ones, it only makes sense to have a photo of Mo in there!
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Mrs. Hummingbird, Toronto
Age and Occupation: 25, Publishing Coordinator
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Videogame Designer/Cartoonist
Engagement Date: May 4, 2007
Wedding Date: June 28, 2008
Blogging Since: September 18, 2007
Venue: A garden wedding followed by a tented reception on Mr. Hummingbird's father's property.
About Me: I’m a pop culture loving, vintage obsessed foodie living in Canada’s biggest city with my fantastic fiancé and our lovable fluffy cat Bettie. I’m stoked to marry my best friend and to throw what I hope will be
the most fun and colourful party of our lives.
I have 2 adorable kittens whom I just love to pieces so I know how you feel about yours! The first kitten I found in a parking lot when she was TWO DAYS old, no longer than 5 inches! I had to bottle feed her and everything so we have an extra special bond. After having her for about 2 months, I realized she would severely benefit from having a second kitten around. So, I went and adopted a second kitten and it was the best possible decision I could have ever made. The second kitten is hardly any more work and it gives the first kitten someone to play with while we are away from the house. Have you ever considered getting a second cat?
I don’t know how easy it would be to incorporate a kitten or cat into a wedding, besides having a picture there. Cats really can’t be trained and are generally skiddish around lots of people. If you are going to have pictures around you could always be sure to include a picture of your precious baby. Or, if she has a certain color collar she wears, you could include that color in your bouquet.
Here are my two babies:
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