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Pups Are People Too

Today, as promised, we get to see Clarissa and Tiffani’s VIPs (Very Important Pups), Hazelnut, Domino and Chai! Because dogs are such an important part of their lives, Clarissa and Tiffani chose a reading for their ceremony which relates their love to the never-ending, never-wavering love that dogs demonstrate.

How Falling In Love Is Like Owning A Dog
by Taylor Mali

First of all, it’s a big responsibility, especially in a city like New York [or Atlanta…]
So think long and hard before deciding on love.

On the other hand, love gives you a sense of security:
when you’re walking down the street late at night and you have a leash on love
ain’t no one going to mess with you.
Because crooks and muggers think love is unpredictable.
Who knows what love could do in its own defense?

On cold winter nights, love is warm.
It lies between you and lives and breathes and makes funny noises.
Love wakes you up all hours of the night with its needs.
It needs to be fed so it will grow and stay healthy.

Love doesn’t like being left alone for long.
But come home and love is always happy to see you.
It may break a few things accidentally in its passion for life,
but you can never be mad at love for long.

Is love good all the time? No! No!
Love can be bad. Bad, love, bad! Very bad love.
Love makes messes.
Love leaves you little surprises here and there.
Love needs lots of cleaning up after.

Sometimes you just want to get love fixed.
Sometimes you want to roll up a piece of newspaper
and swat love on the nose, not so much to cause pain,
just to let love know: Don’t you ever do that again!

Sometimes love just wants to go for a nice long walk.
Because love loves exercise.
It runs you around the block and leaves you panting.
It pulls you in several different directions at once,
or winds around and around you
until you’re all wound up and can’t move.

But love makes you meet people wherever you go.
People who have nothing in common but love 
stop and talk to each other on the street.

Throw things away and love will bring them back,
again, and again, and again.
But most of all, love needs love, lots of it.
And in return, love loves you and never stops.

I think this poem sums up love, and marriage, and life for that matter, just about perfectly! I’m a dog lover too, and also married, and I can tell you for a fact that when you nourish your love and your marriage it DOES love you back, never stopping, even though it definitely also leaves messes and little surprises, both good and bad!

Pups are the best, and weddings with pups are the best, and weddings with poems about pups are also the best!
 
Congratulations, Clarissa and Tiffani! Wishing you and the pups and the rest of the menagerie (including the coming-soon goat) a lifetime of love!
 
Photo courtesy of Mary-Claire Stewart.

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