Bow Vows

By Sandy Robins | Photographs by Peter M. Organa

At Albert and Bridget's wedding, adhering to the cliche that has practically become wedding tradition, the bride was late for the ceremony. No, it wasn’t wedding jitters; in this case, our bride was busy searching out the perfect spot to pee.

When she finally squatted on some rocks in full view of the wedding guests patiently waiting for the sunset beach ceremony to begin, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, Bridget, a Maltese,didn’t spoil her Vera Woof lace dress, and her Chinese Crested groom, looking dapper in a tuxedo and top hat, really didn’t care. After all, this is normal doggie stuff despite the occasion.

While “woof weddings” are now very fashionable amongst the pet set, they first became headline material in 2005 when former Baywatch babe Pamela Anderson arranged a wedding for her Golden Retriever, Star, and her Chihuahua, Luca, on the beach in Malibu, California. They were getting to the “I dos,” when “Kazakhstani journalist” Borat (the alter ego of English movie star Sasha Baron Cohen), wearing swim trunks, a leather jacket, and a Village People-style cap, arrived in a raft and literally crashed into the wedding party. He was unceremoniously dumped back into the sea by Anderson’s unamused security detail.