Well, this is what we did, since my mom said absolutely no ferrets at the ceremony/reception (they were at the same place). We bought some little black footed ferret figurines (found them at Hallmark type stores, I believe) and went to a local ceramics store where we were able to paint them to look like our ferrets. The cake people actually hid them among the flowers on the cake, so they were not very conspicuous, but that's actually kind of a ferrety thing to do. At the time, we only had five, so it wasn't too hard. With nine, it would have been more difficult to fit them all on the cake! Kurt & Sara Petersen FURRY (Ferrets Underfoot RUnning Round You) http://www.furryferrets.org Help raise money for the shelter! Click on http://www.iGive.com/html/ssi.cfm?cid=5129 [Posted in FML issue 2992]