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Ms. James’s Rottweiler, Onyx, was the maid of honor at their wedding.

“I lost my best friends, I lost my roommates, I lost my bridesmaids, I lost my maid of honor, I lost my everything,” Thompson said.

“She would have been my maid of honor, and I probably would have been hers,” Jazzmin said.

The simple function of handing over the bride’s ring could be done by the maid of honor, if there is one.

And the maid of honor at his wedding — whose children are his godchildren — called him from the Barricks’ home Monday.