Animals In Weddings: Weird Animals Who Stopped By Weddings

Posted: 07/18/2012 4:38 pm EDT Updated: 07/18/2012 4:39 pm EDT

If you're serving chicken at your wedding, these guests might take offense.

Dogs, cats and horses are popular animals to include in a wedding ceremony. But what about eagles, chickens and pigs?

Click through the slideshow below to see some rather unusual animal wedding guests -- both invited and uninvited.

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Not Your Average Wedding Guest

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Rohit Mehta and wife Payai Sharma rode to their wedding ceremony in Beverly Hills, Calif. on a 8,800-pound elephant in 2010. It's a Hindu ritual called Baraat in which the groom rides to the village of his bride -- in this case, the Beverly Wilshire Hotel -- on their wedding day.
A mariachi band performing at an aquarium wedding in Connecticut had more than just the invited guests dancing. A beluga whale spotted the band -- trainers say he was attracted to the vibrations of the music -- and started gettin' jiggy with it.
One couple had a very hungry surprise guest push his way to the front of the line for some wedding cake: While the couple was slicing their dessert, an iguana leaped on to the table and scared the bride away as he began to chomp on the confection.
A man-eating tiger crashed Katy Perry and Russell Brand's wedding in 2010, in the same park in India where Brand's wedding gift to Perry -- a Bengal tiger named Malchi -- lives. The big cat scaled two walls to enter the venue.
Bears are making a habit of showing up to weddings. One bear sat across a river in Colorado while a pair of newlyweds took wedding photos, and a few furry friends made an appearance at a New Mexico wedding reception.
A cougar cub made for a dangerously cute wedding crasher in Washington state in 2009. Reception guests held a staring contest with the cub, as cougars are rarely seen by humans in that area.
Becky Vanderplas had many good friends attend her wedding, but one friend -- a fully grown bald eagle -- showed up unexpectedly. The eagle, who attended on the arm of trainer Colin Weir, had a special bond with the bride: she helped rescue the bird months before her Big Day. After the ceremony, the eagle was re-released into the wild.
One couple, who married at the Whipsnade Zoo in the UK, visited with some lemurs on their Big Day, while a lucky photographer snapped these photos.
Not all animal guests are pleasant. A water buffalo tore through a 2006 wedding ceremony in Cambodia, goring six people, including a pregnant woman. The buffalo was killed by authorities immediately after the incident.
A 2010 South African wedding was crashed by a pair of rhinos. The bride and groom were in the middle of their vows when the animals appeared from behind a group of bushes.
Cute nephews, step aside! A couple in Tennessee had their pet pot bellied pig bear their rings down the aisle. The pig, named Hamilton, walked down the aisle with a junior bridesmaid and junior groomsman. He even had the wedding's signature drink -- "The Hamilton" -- named after him!
Though the cows didn't actually attend this couple's ceremony, they were a big part of their wedding photos. The moo machines even interacted with the newlyweds for some priceless snapshots!
This bride had some clucky companions in her wedding photos. Two chickens, Ro-Birda and Bird-trude, belonging to the photographer made for some feathery photos.