Among the many videos Jacqueline Kaye Hornung has posted of her dog Lumi, known on social media as Little Bear Lumi, some are more funny than adorable.
An example: A clip from earlier this month showed Ms. Hornung and Benjamin Aaron Jacob practicing the first dance for their wedding in their Manhattan living room while the Samoyed, seated on the couch, barked in protest, then tried to join in. At first, he is expelled for frisky behavior, but ultimately it becomes a dance for three, and the dog appears appeased.
Long before 2021, when Lumi entered their lives as a puppy, Ms. Hornung, who goes by Jackie, and Mr. Jacob, who goes by Ben, were a committed twosome. They met in 2009 as 11-year-olds at Camp Echo Lake, a sleep-away camp in Warrensburg, N.Y., that both attended each summer. At 16, they became a couple and have been together ever since.
“I kind of knew I had met my person,” Ms. Hornung, now 27, said. “We agreed back then that we didn’t want to lose each other out in the world.” As teenagers, off-season weekends and holiday breaks were spent visiting each other, and at first, their parents had to drive them each way because neither yet held a driver’s license.
Ms. Hornung grew up in Westport, Conn., the oldest of four siblings. At Tulane University, she earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology. She had plans to go to graduate school to become a physician assistant, but before she found out whether the programs she applied to had accepted her, her life took what she said was a hugely unexpected turn.
“Lumi got famous,” she said.
