A beloved black Lab named Charlie lived merely prolonged adequate to be collectively together with his favorite human when she obtained married.
When Kelly O’Connell of Denver, Colorado tied the knot with the love of her life, it meant the world for her to have pup Charlie Bear by her side. Every she and new-husband James Garvin are veterinarians.
At 15 years outdated, Charlie had been battling a thoughts tumor for numerous months. By his human’s wedding ceremony ceremony day this September, he was very weak–nonetheless he nonetheless made it.
The pup began strolling down the aisle with O’Connell’s sister and maid of honor Katie Lloyd. Nonetheless when the house proved to be too good for him, the 5’3″ Lloyd picked up the 80-pound Charlie and carried him to the altar to lie subsequent to his human.
“Every of us merely dropped to our knees and commenced crying,” the bride told ABC News. “To see him be carried a few ft, it kind of solidified for me that it’s not the Charlie he favored to be. He was rising outdated, and it hit me determining that he misplaced hundreds.”
“He was a very sweet canine. He appreciated all individuals, nonetheless I was positively his particular person,” she talked about inside the story.
These moments on the marriage ceremony turned out to be a couple of of their closing collectively. A lot of days later, Charlie crossed the Rainbow Bridge.
These heartfelt footage, shot by O’Connell’s good buddy and photographer Jen Dziuvenis, will on a regular basis be specific recollections for the newlyweds.
“When your beloved canine who’s on the end of his life can’t make it once more up the aisle and your sister scoops him up and carries him …. THAT is love,” Dziuvenis wrote on Facebook. “There isn’t adequate mascara on the earth for these moments. Canine individuals are top-of-the-line of us.”
(h/t: ABC News)
