Henrietta may only be a bridesmaid and never a bride, but it doesn't ruffle her feathers.

Besides, the bride had great taste in flowers.

"She was a very good girl," maid of honor Paulette Winn said. "She wanted to eat part of the flower she was wearing."

Henrietta is a chicken. Precisely, an Old English Bantam hen. Chicken usually shows up in weddings as an item on the menu or as the name of a dance. Not as a member of the wedding party.

But Henrietta is no ordinary chicken. She was one of the bridesmaids in Terry Morris and Renee Biwer's wedding Saturday afternoon.

She's about the size of a dove, and fit into the crook of flower girl Jasmyne Morris' arm. She's the pet of the groom, Terry Morris.

"It was fun," Jasmyne Morris said.

Although holding her through the ceremony was boring, she said.

It was bit unexpected, but Henrietta won people over.

"I thought it was awesome,"Winn said. "Henrietta is a part of the family."

It was only natural for Henrietta to be in the wedding, said Renee Morris, the bride.

"She's a part of the family, and like one of our children," Renee Morris said. "It is important to include her."

Her new husband has had Henrietta for 12 years, when the hen came into his wheel alignment shop in Olympia, Wash.

Jasmyne, who is Terry Morris' granddaughter, has known Henrietta all of her life.

"You can play with her, and she's a tame chicken," she said.

Terry kept Henrietta a secret from Renee at first.

"I didn't want her to think I was crazy," he said.

But she didn't. They now travel with Henrietta and she stays in hotel rooms with them, Renee said.

"I found a lady who likes horses and chickens," Terry said.

They managed to weave Henrietta and horses into the wedding ceremony.

Besides Henrietta being a part of the wedding party, the bride and groom rode in on horseback and said their vows from the saddle.

Terry and Renee met when she was caring for his father in hospice and later for his mother in home care. They began dating in October.

"I wish them all the best," Winn said. "They'll do great."