Man Needing a Best Man for His Wedding Has a Sister, Doesn’t Hesitate

Wedding traditions can be constricting—but one loving brother didn’t let that stop him from involving his sister in his wedding the way he wanted.

A video posted to TikTok by Jenna (@jensbarnett) has gone viral after revealing the moment her brother asked her to be his “best person” for his upcoming wedding. Since the clip was posted on July 4, it has received almost 700,000 views and over 108,000 likes.

“Watch my brother ask me to be his best man for his wedding,” Jenna captioned the video. “Except instead of a best man, it’s ‘his best person’…crying again thinking about it!”

In the video, Jenna is seen opening a gift with Converse shoes inside. On them was written her brother’s request: “Most guys would pick a best man,” he wrote on the shoe. “I don’t want a best man, I want you as my best person. Will you be my best person?”

Her brother didn’t stop there, though. After she read what was written, he professed his request out loud.

“There’s nobody that I would want standing with me more than you,” he said in the video. “There’s no guy friends that I have that I feel deserve that spot more.”

Viewers in the comments gushed over the open expression of sibling love, saying that the footage even made them emotional.

“Wasn’t expecting to cry,” @mandygillas wrote. “How incredibly sweet.”

Many parents also weighed in on the rarity of an explicitly loving sibling relationship: “I showed this to my husband and said that I hope that one day our children will have this bond,” @brittfrias posted.

“Your parents hit the parent lottery. I pray every day my children have this love for each other,” @danicmore1 commented.

The video has also inspired people on TikTok to share—and create—their own similar wedding traditions.

“So cute,” @syds96 wrote. “My brother walked me down the aisle.”

“I love this so much,” @li2vbanks added. “I am highly considering making my brother my man of honor instead of having a maid of honor.”

“My husband also chose his sister to stand as his best person on the groomsman side and I’ll forever love this idea as an oldest sister,” @greenmajikmama posted. “Family is everything.”

With many clamoring for a peek inside the unconventional celebration, Jenna promised to deliver. She wrote in the comments that she would post content from her brother’s bachelor party in September, and follow up in November with footage from the wedding—”the real deal,” she wrote.

Newsweek reached out to @jensbarnett for comment via TikTok.