Gigi Metzger of Westport Island and Orlando, Florida, had a decision to make Saturday: a black shirt and cardigan and white slacks, or white pants and shirt with a black cardigan. Plus, she and the other Metzgers had a split opinion at home as to whether she should wear her hair in pigtails.

The goal was for her to match the look of the family's English springer spaniel, Frodo, at First Congregational Church's Summerfest in Wiscasset.

Daughters Jessica and Olivia opposed the pigtails; everyone else favored them to increase her and Frodo's chances for a prize.

But after a pigtail-free Metzger and Frodo paraded up and down the hill on the Wiscasset common with 16 other owner-dog entrants, victory in the “best color coordination” category was theirs.

“Look at that. You are so well-coordinated,” volunteer Chris Sieracki of Edgecomb said as Metzger and dog stepped up to accept their trophy amid applause and “oohs” from the crowd.

The two wore matching red bandannas — his around the neck and hers in her hair.

The win was not Frodo's only honor Saturday. He took another first for eating 12 treats in one minute; and third place in a tricks contest. Jessica Metzger set a hot dog in the grass at his feet, told him to stay, then stepped away and succeeded in having him stay put and not eat the hot dog.

“Observe how he refuses to even look at the hot dog,” Philip Metzger said with pride as his daughter and dog completed the trick.

Bruce Bishop's basset hound Captain Higgins walked away with the win for longest ears. “He wants people to like him for his mind, not his appearance,” Bishop, of Edgecomb, said.

A Boothbay miniature poodle puppy, Ari, didn't enter this year's parade and contests, but was there as an observer. Owner and new Colby College graduate Sara Beth George, a lab tech at Bigelow Laboratory in East Boothbay, said the 12-week-old already knows some tricks.

“She'll kill it next year,” George said.

Summerfest co-chairman Sarah Whitfield of Wiscasset described the gray weather as a blessing in disguise for Saturday’s turnout. “A lot of people didn’t go to the beach so they’re coming and shopping with us, so it’s great.”

The annual event is a church tradition to raise money for area charities. Between $6,500 and $7,000 was raised Saturday, said Whitfield’s mother Jan Whitfield. She co-chaired the event with her daughter and husband Steve Whitfield.

The 32nd annual Summerfest was the first one for Gigi Metzger’s mother-in-law Trudy Metzger since her daughter Sally Metzger’s death in 2014 following a long battle with colon cancer.

Mother and daughter used to attend Summerfest together. It was where Sally Metzger bought some of the items that her mother donated to Summerfest this year.

“She was a great shopper,” her mother said.