general | March 30, 2026

Wedding Moments Guaranteed To Make You Cry

The night before Sarah Atwood's wedding, she wept in her mother's arms. Her brother, Daniel, a United States Marine on deployment, wouldn't be able to make it to her wedding. She and Daniel are best friends, and he was going to miss the most important day of her life.

But, at the last minute, Daniel was able to get a one-day leave from service so that he could attend his sister's wedding. He surprised her as she posed for photos before the wedding. As soon as she saw him, she put her hand to her mouth and burst into tears, saying, "Oh my gosh."

The siblings enjoyed a long hug, after which she asked him if he was able to stay for the wedding. "I go back tomorrow," Daniel told his sister. "You look beautiful." Then the video panned to the other members of the Atwood family, all of whom were struggling to hold back tears.

"I was kind of confused," Sarah said in the video. "Because people were acting really funny. Everyone was looking around the corner, and I was just, like, 'Is something wrong and they're just not trying to tell me so I don't stress out?'" No, they were just waiting for her wedding day to get that much better.