Attempting to RSVP for her best friend’s wedding turned into a surprising revelation for a woman online.
Jessica Mabie was about to click “attending” when she unexpectedly discovered her official role in the ceremony—not through a formal ask, but by spotting her name listed under the “Groom Party” on the wedding website. Mabie, 28, spoke to Newsweek about the hilarious move by her best friend, which was captured in a TikTok video that has received over one million views.
In the video, Mabie joked about her best friend, Hunter, finding someone “to marry him and deal with him forever” before showing the wedding website page where she’s listed as a groomswoman.
“This is so boy coded,” she captioned the video.
Mabie said that when she got the invite, the formal role was the last thing she expected.
“I thought I was just RSVP-ing like everyone else,” she told Newsweek. “But as I scrolled through the first page, there it was—the wedding party list—and my name was listed as a groomswoman. Total surprise.”
Her reaction was a mixture of amusement and affection for her friend’s forgetfulness: “Cue the facepalm and a little laugh because honestly…classic Hunter moves to forget to mention something kind of important like that,” she said.
While the role itself wasn’t entirely out of the blue—Hunter was meant to be a bridesman in Mabie’s wedding before grad school interfered—she hadn’t assumed it was happening the other way around.
“I had kind of assumed maybe…I didn’t quite fit into the aesthetic or vision they had in mind, like, adding a groomswoman to the groom’s side,” she said. “So, finding out like that was unexpected, but also really special. It was such a Hunter-style surprise, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.”
A Friendship Through the Years
Mabie described Hunter as a “total goofball.” While “kind of a scatterbrain,” she said he is one of the kindest and funniest people she’s ever met.
Their friendship, forged through parallel breakups around 2015 and 2016, became a vital support system built on clear boundaries, allowing them to remain friends.
“Since then, we’ve been through so many of life’s milestones together: heartbreaks, graduations, weddings—you name it,” Mabie said. They consciously prioritize respecting their respective partners and maintaining healthy boundaries within their friendship.
Standing beside Hunter as a groomswoman on his big day, then, holds deep significance for Mabie.
“It means the world to me,” she said. “Being by his side on such an important day is a reflection of everything we’ve been through together: the highs, the lows and all the moments in between. It’s an honor to stand with someone who’s more like family than a friend, and a reminder of just how deep and lasting our friendship truly is.”
Expressing her happiness for the couple, she added, “I love him like a brother, and like with any loved one, all you really want is to see them deeply loved, cared for and cherished. He couldn’t have found a better partner.”
The unconventional reveal, while maybe lacking fanfare, ultimately proved the unique nature of their friendship—a bond strong enough that even finding out her role via the RSVP page felt perfectly, comically right.
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