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Pet Care Hubs offers a specialised chaperone service to couples who want to include furry family members in festivities. From calm ceremony moments to behind-the-scenes support, an Animal Attendance Plan is uniquely designed so you can focus on celebrating while your pet is present, cared for and accompanied by experienced, insured professionals.
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How We Work 🐾
Pet attendance is treated as a small but structured workstream within the wider wedding plan.
Typically, we are brought in by a planner, venue or couple once a pet is being considered, and we then:
- Review the request and context: We look at the type of event, venue conditions, schedule, and the animal’s temperament, age and welfare needs.
- Confirm what’s possible, and when: We identify where animal presence is appropriate within the day (for example: ceremony entrance, portraits, arrivals, or a brief appearance), ensuring it aligns with venue rules, licensing and health & safety expectations.
- Produce a clear Animal Attendance Risk Assessment & Plan: This document outlines timings, routes, responsibilities, handling arrangements and contingencies, and can be shared with planners, venues, insurers and other relevant parties.
- Coordinate handlers and logistics: Where required, we source and coordinate insured, professional handlers and manage practical details such as access, waiting areas, handovers and exit points.
- Act as a single point of contact: On the lead-up and the day itself, we handle all animal-related coordination so planners, registrars and venue teams aren’t managing this ad-hoc.
Our service is designed to support existing planning structures, not replace them, adding reassurance, clarity and predictability around an element that often sits outside standard wedding workflows.
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What do you do exactly?
We provide specialist coordination when couples wish to include an animal (most commonly a dog) in a wedding or event. This includes planning, welfare oversight, venue alignment and the sourcing of professional, insured handlers, ensuring animal attendance is calm, safe and operationally sound.
When should we involve you?
As early as possible is ideal, especially where venues have specific conditions or where a ceremony is licensed. That said, we’re also used to stepping in later to bring structure and reassurance where plans already exist.
Can you help with creative ways to include our pet?
Yes. Where appropriate, we can help couples and planners think through meaningful and creative ways for animals to be involved, always balanced with welfare, safety and the practicalities of the day.
Can’t we just hire a dog sitter or ask a friend?
In some very simple, low-risk scenarios that may be possible. However, particularly at venues or around ceremonies which involves timings, access restrictions, insurance considerations and multiple stakeholders. Professional handlers are trained to work within these environments and to prioritise the animal’s welfare while respecting venue rules and the flow of the day.
Do you encourage animals to attend weddings?
We don't ecourage or discourage animal attendance, we approach it on a case-by-case basis with animal welfare as the starting point.
Through Pet Care Hubs we work closely with local animal welfare organisations across London, Lisbon, Dublin & Algarve via our charity directory, which keeps us grounded in what is genuinely appropriate for animals, not just what looks good on the day. We’re very conscious of not placing animals into situations that are uncomfortable, overwhelming or unsafe for them.
That said, animal attendance isn’t always a fixed yes or no. In some cases, concerns around anxiety, unfamiliar environments or behaviour can be thoughtfully addressed in advance, for example through gradual acclimatisation, working with trainers, or introducing elements of the day (such as photographers or settings) in a calmer context first.
Our role is to help couples explore inclusion in a way that feels kind, realistic and respectful of the animal by putting support in place.
Who pays the handler(s)?
We manage and pay chaperones & specialists directly. Couples receive a clear budget, without needing to coordinate or contract additional suppliers themselves.
What is an Animal Attendance Risk Assessment & Plan?
A practical document outlining how animal attendance will be managed, including timings, permitted spaces, welfare considerations and responsibilities. It can be shared with venues, planners, relevant suppliers and insurers where required.
What size or style of weddings do you work with?
We work across intimate ceremonies, micro weddings and larger, high-end celebrations. The focus is less on size and more on ensuring the right level of planning for the setting and the animal involved.