We all love our pets. But when you're making your cat a miniature veil on your sewing machine and sizing up your dog for a best man's tux, you're probably on the wrong side of love. And the law.

So it went with the German man who, the BBC reports, recently decided to marry his cat. Uwe Mitzscherlich from Possendorf, says he wanted to tie the knot with his cat Cecilia as soon as vets told him she didn't have long to live.

However, because marrying an animal is (quite understandably) illegal in Germany, the 39-year-old Mitzscherlich had to stage a bizarre ceremony, which he paid an actress $395 to officiate.

Actress Christin-Maria Lohri asked him to say "I do" and Cecilia to say "meow" before pronouncing them man and cat. Keep reading to see a video of the "wedding."

(We don't have a video of the wedding night -- and we're actually pretty happy about that.)