I saw a post on threads recently where somebody asked,
can somebody explain to me
why women cry when they see their best friends
wearing a wedding dress for the first time?
And I can answer this question.
When I saw my best friend put on a wedding dress for the first time,
immediately, you have to understand that that is my friend
since we were two years old.
That is a person that I have watched through every stage of life.
We went to preschool together.
We used to call our parents to pick us up from playdates
when we would get mad at each other.
We got our periods around the same time.
We got our first boyfriends.
We got our first kisses.
All of these beautiful stages of life we got to witness for each other,
we got to share together.
And so to see her put on a wedding dress for the first time.
And to think
this might be one of the coolest things that I ever get to witness
you do one of the biggest moments of your life,
and I get to be right here seeing you take on a new role.
You know, I’ve seen you be a college graduate,
I’ve seen you be a high school graduate,
I’ve seen you be a professional in the workplace,
and now I get to see you as a bride,
which is something that we talked about growing up,
like how excited we were to Get married one day
and to have husbands, blah, blah, blah.
We. We dreamed of it,
you know?
And when we got our stupid first boyfriends who were so dumb and silly,
we also dreamed of it. And then to see her put on a wedding dress,
to marry somebody who’s worthy of her
after dismissing the people who weren’t.
To see her look so beautiful,
so radiant, to know that this was just one more special moment
that we were going to get to share in our life together,
because, genuinely,
we have spent our lives together.
It just killed me. It just.
I mean, I bawled like a baby.
And then this year, when she came wedding dress shopping with me,
she also cried like a baby.
Like our moms were whatever.
Everybody else. We took wedding dress shopping with us.
They were fine. They weren’t, like,
super cry. We were both just messes for each other.
There’s just something so special
about seeing the person that you spent your entire girlhood with
put on that damn wedding dress.
And I know, you know,
life doesn’t begin when we put on a wedding dress.
Life doesn’t begin when we get married.
But it’s certainly a moment.
And it’s really beautiful to see your best friend,
a look so beautiful, shine in her own way
and to just get to witness her, like,
preparing to enter this new stage of life.
So, yeah,
I cried like a baby, and That’s why we do it. That’s why we cry.