Baby shower
Baby Shower Invitations With Pets: The Dog Is Family
Your dog is already family, so it belongs on the invitation: its name next to yours, one photo, and a line saying whether it's coming. Here's where each goes.
Send The Joy · October 6, 2026 · 3 min read
There's a dog asleep on the sofa, right where the folded muslins are going to end up. You open the editor to write the invitation, type your partner's name, and stop. That dog is coming to the baby shower, sitting under the table, hoping for cake. Pet-friendly baby shower invitations are the ones that say so on the page instead of leaving guests to guess.
It costs you one extra line and one photo. That's the whole job: a name in the names field, a photo where you can see the whole animal, and a sentence that tells people what to expect when they walk in.
Pet-friendly baby shower invitations start in the names field
Write the whole line in the field where the names go: 'Marta and Luis, with Nala waiting for a little sister.' It reads in one go, and nobody has to ask who Nala is. Give the pet its own scene inside the invitation — a title, a sentence and a photo of its own — instead of slipping it into the last line. If there's more than one, name them all: 'Ted, Milu and Chispa already have their spot on the sofa' does more work than 'our furry friends'.
- The pet's name written next to the parents' names, in the same text field.
- A photo that shows the whole animal, not just a cropped snout.
- One sentence saying whether the pet is coming to the party or staying at home.
- An RSVP question about how many of you are coming, and whether a dog is coming too.
The photo that works: the dog leaning against the bump
The shot to look for: the dog sitting at the mum-to-be's feet, or resting its chin at waist height, taken from the side. Not a close-up of a nose with everything else cropped out. You can upload up to six photos, so keep the two of you on the cover and spread the dog's close-ups across the inner scenes.
Colour and music do the rest. If the dog is brown, that same brown in the cover background ties the palette together without putting a bow on the animal. And pick the song that plays when the link opens: the one from the morning walk sets the tone before anyone gets to the date.
Your dog is already in the family photos. Give it a line on the invitation.
Say in the invite whether the dog is coming
One sentence settles it: 'We're celebrating in my parents' garden, and Nala will stay outside the living room.' Nobody turns up with a dog tied to the gate. Add an RSVP question — how many of you are coming, and is a dog coming too — and the answers arrive in one list inside the invitation, so you know how many chairs and how many bowls of water to put out. No chasing WhatsApp messages the night before. Start with a free design, put the dog's name on the cover, and publish the link when it reads right.
