TikTok Supports Woman Whose Friends Ditched Bachelorette Party
Brianna Seewald tearfully explained how everyone who RSVP'd to her bachelorette canceled last minute.
TikTokers, including Mama Tot, rallied around her and they would come instead.
Despite the support, Seewald deleted her video because she didn't want to remember the negativity.
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A woman posted an emotional video on Friday saying all the guests for her bachelorette party had canceled last minute, and TikTok quickly rallied behind her.
Brianna Seewald, who has over 500,000 TikTok followers, and shares her journey as a car-accident survivor on her platform, tearfully explained how none of the people she invited showed up.
Seewald said in the video, posted on Friday, that her party was due to start the next day. "Except my maid of honor called me yesterday to tell me that out of almost 30 people, no one is coming."
Through tears, Seewald said just her maid of honor would be attending. She said that she would have understood if she had been told months ago, and could have canceled the cabin they were planning on staying in.
"Me and my maid of honor could have gone anywhere," she said. "I could have gone to Vegas with her, I could have done anything. But two days before my bachelorette and that's when I find out no one is coming. Do you know how humiliating that is?"
Seewald said she had been feeling "immensely lonely" since her car accident in August 2020, which left her with a broken neck and spine. Since the accident she uses a wheelchair. She said she felt her worst fear had come true, that she no longer had any friends.
"I honestly don't know how much more I can take, you know?" she said.
Many who saw Seewald's video said they would come instead, if Seewald wanted them to. "We ride at dawn," one person wrote.
TikTok star Ophelia Nichols, better known as Mama Tot, who has over 11 million followers, shared Seewald's video where it amassed 1.2 million views. Nichols told Seewald she was "beautiful" and was going to ne "one hell of a bride," and her friends not showing up was their own fault.
"You need a bachelorette party, and that's where we come in," she said. "We need to get all the girls of TikTok to throw you a bachelorette party."
Nichols said they could throw it virtually on TikTok live or arrange something in person.
"Honey, we can load you down with gifts, we can just show you how important you are to this community, OK?" she said. "That's what we do here."
"YES!!!! This gurl needs us gurls!" one comment reads. "Those 30 are gonna miss out!!!"
The next day, Seewald posted an update. She said she was getting ready to go to the cabin with her maid of honor, and had been "overwhelmed with the love and support" on her video.
"But there were also 100 comments in there that were really shitty," she said.
Seewald said she wanted to explain that she knew all 30 people probably wouldn't make it, but she was upset that some people said they would come but then backed out at the last minute.
She said some people had good reasons for canceling, but was upset that some backed out because their friends would no longer be there.
"So that is incredibly hurtful to me," she said. "And that sucks because I've known these people almost my whole life."
Seewald said she had also gotten hateful comments saying her tears in the first video weren't real.
"I shouldn't have to validate myself on the internet," she said, adding that she had taken the video down.
Seewald thanked Mama Tot and the "thousands" of people who reached out to her, including people in her area who offered to come to the cabin, even though she turned down their offer and said they would stick with a two-person party.
"We are going to make the most of this weekend," Seewald said."But thank you, thank you, thank you everyone for all of the love and support."
In the comments, people said they respected Seewald's decision and her feelings were valid.
"Things like this show you who your real friends are," one person wrote. "Enjoy your time and congratulations!"
Insider reached out to Seewald for further comment.
Source: Insider
