--- title: Wedding Ideas: Bridesmaids Carry Puppies Instead of Bouquets description: A resourceful bride had her bridesmaids trade their bouquets for puppies to raise awareness for SPCA adoptions. canonical: https://time.com/4725601/bride-puppies-bridesmaids/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-04T22:25:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:42:32.723Z og:title: These Bridesmaids Carried Cute Puppies Instead of Bouquets og:description: Who needs flowers when you can have pooches? og:url: https://time.com/4725601/bride-puppies-bridesmaids/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: These Bridesmaids Carried Cute Puppies Instead of Bouquets twitter:description: Who needs flowers when you can have pooches? twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Bridesmaids Carry Puppies Instead of Bouquets Because Flowers Are So Last Year  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Apr 4, 2017 10:25 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Apr 4, 2017 10:25 PM UTC A North Carolina [bride skirted tradition when it came to her wedding](http://time.com/4718663/pizza-wedding-cake/) last month; instead of subjecting her bridesmaids to tradition, she had them trade in their bouquets for [a furrier, more adorable option: puppies](http://time.com/4709801/national-puppy-day-2017-dogs-save-children/)! Meghan Butler opted to have her and her bridesmaids take pictures with eight puppies from the Greater Charlotte SPCA in North Carolina, with the hope that they would be adopted sooner, resulting in a cuddly and heartwarming photoshoot. According to [_People_](http://people.com/pets/bridal-party-uses-puppy-bouquets/), all of the pups have been adopted since the wedding; in fact, Butler and her husband love pet adoption so much (they currently have four adopted pets between them) that they chose to make a donation to the SPCA instead of buying wedding favors. See Butler’s special day with the puppies below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4725601/bride-puppies-bridesmaids/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4725601/bride-puppies-bridesmaids/"},"headline":"Bridesmaids Carry Puppies Instead of Bouquets Because Flowers Are So Last Year","datePublished":"2017-04-04T22:25:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:42:32.723Z","description":"Who needs flowers when you can have pooches?","url":"https://time.com/4725601/bride-puppies-bridesmaids/","keywords":["Newsfeed","society","viral","Weddings","Culture"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4725601/bride-puppies-bridesmaids/","name":"Bridesmaids Carry Puppies Instead of Bouquets Because Flowers Are So Last Year"}}]}] ```