When Janet Merryman, an 80-year-old grandmother of four, battled loneliness and struggled to stay at home alone, she never thought she would become a TikTok star. Her granddaughter, however, decided to film their shopping trip for Merryman’s wedding dress, and the rest, as they say, is history.
In her video, posted on October 3, 2023, Danielle Jefferson showed her grandma posing in a dress she picked to marry her 60-year-old fiancé. The woman walked in front of the mirror in a strapless white dress with a slit to City Session’s song “Get You the Moon.”
When given a small bell, the soon-to-be bride rang it, unsure at first, but then laughed and gave in to excitement. In their feature on GMA, Jefferson recalled how other brides in the shop stopped trying on dresses to look at her grandma.
