Maid of Honor Makes Major Decision Weeks Before Wedding, Bride Can’t Cope

Friends want friends to be present for their wedding—even, apparently, if it comes with a bloodied, bandaged nose.

A pair of best friends on TikTok have gone viral for a woman’s hilarious reaction to her maid-of-honor’s nose surgery three weeks before her wedding. “When you got surgery three weeks before your bestie’s wedding,” the video was captioned, receiving one million likes and more than 1,200 comments from viewers laughing along.

“What is on your face … Wait, is this a joke?” Danielle Cayon, 30, said in the video after seeing her friend Kat Stickler, 29, with a bandaged nose. Stickler immediately reassures her friend: “No, it’ll be gone!”

The conversation ensued with plenty of reassurances from Stickler, who incidentally got a nosebleed in the middle of making her case.

“I can already breathe through both nostrils,” Stickler said. “Makeup will literally cover everything up.”

“I’ve never seen you look this bad[…]My photographer’s going to love this,” Cayon said, before saying she had a migraine and needed a glass of wine.

Stickler told Newsweek that she got the surgery to improve her breathing, and that the only appointments available were either three weeks before or six months after the wedding. In the video, she told Cayon the reason: “It was the motorboat sound that I made, it was to help me breathe!”

Stickler said she didn’t worry about Cayon’s reaction, but knew it would be a big one.

“I wasn’t nervous, I knew it would heal by then, but I also love her reactions so knew I had to document it,” she said.

Beneath the video, comments from viewers held a mix of empathy, laughter and admiration for the duo’s friendship. One user, @lilliiaaaannnn, said her own nose surgery healing process took six months to one year. Another commenter, @theehoneybabyee, begged the TikTok algorithm to bring an update video to her For You Page in three weeks.

Stickler spoke about the healing process, saying Cayon was by her sideto make sure her nose recovered before the wedding.

“Her creative solution was coming over almost every day with all the remedies and hot/cold compresses that would help with inflammation and promote healing,” Stickler said. “It’s healing amazingly, it’s still swollen internally but, on the outside, looks fine so we were both relieved.”

Despite Cayon’s initial concerns and hilarious outburst, Stickler said the wedding went off without a hitch.

“The wedding was a complete success and was honestly the best wedding I’ve ever been a part of,” she said. “[I] could not have asked for a more perfect day.”