“Was It an Ex of Hers or Something?” — Video of a Furry in the Background of a Wedding Goes Viral

As a parent, I can confidently say I would much rather my children grow up to become illegal narcotics dealers than furries.

But that's just my opinion, and there are certainly people who find merit in pretending like they're an animal by wearing gigantic mascot suits akin to what you would see at a sports half-time show, just with a heck of a lot less trampoline dunking, and way more second-hand embarrassment grimaces.

But there are a lot of people who said that they were impressed with the way this furry conducted themselves after they became the focal point of a wedding during the vow exchange between bride and groom.

In a viral TikTok uploaded by a user on the app who goes by Shadows (@xxshadowslightxx), she documented the eventual discovery that just a stone's throw away from the matrimonial site was a person who was dressed up as an animal and just attempting to live their life as a "therian."

"When your bestie is walking down the aisle and you realize...." a text overlay in the video reads as the bride is being walked down the aisle by a man in a suit (presumably her father).

Now if you've been to one wedding, you've probably been to them all. So it's only normal while the proceedings are going on that you're going to tend to look around and see what's happening in your immediate surroundings. Which is something that Shadows did and she noticed across a body of water at the site of the ceremony, there was a cow resting on the grass.

However, upon closer inspection, they noticed that the cow wasn't exactly a real cow: "That cow on the other side of the lake is in fact not a COW," they wrote in a text overlay of the video.

So what was it? It was actually a person inside of a costume pretending to be a cow, which Shadows explained in another caption plastered on her video: "but a FURRY just hanging out in the field that just happens to be right behind the altar where they're taking photos..."

According to the TikToker, the furry wasn't even totally committed to their Fursona either, as it looks like they took the opportunity to snap some photos of the wedding instead of pretending to be a cow to free themselves from the trappings of grazing, presumably.

In a follow up video posted to the popular social media platform, Shadows delivered a story time further explaining the run-in they had with the furry during the wedding ceremony. The bride in the video was present in the clip as well, while the TikToker explains what went down.

She went on to explain that it was a "backyard wedding" and that there was a pond on the other side of where the reception was supposed to take place. At first, they didn't notice that the furry was a person "until they stood up."

It's at this point in the video the bride chimes in and says that "a lot of people thought it was a cow" due to the fact that they live in Oklahoma and this type of sighting would be normal.

In fact, no one thought anything was amiss until the furry in question stood up and people realized that the animal they were seeing was actually a person in a fursuit.

Shadows said that because she had a "really good zoom on [her] camera" she was able to see what was going on with the furry in question.

Shadows said that after zooming in on the person, however, they noticed that the person wasn't cosplaying as a cow, but rather a "kitty cat."

And if you were worried about photographer having to edit the furry out of their photos, Shadows and the bride in the video said that this wasn't necessary.

"That person didn't 'ruin' the wedding or 'ruin' the view," the bride says into the video, explaining that their presence really wasn't that much of a downer. Plus, she said that the guests present at the wedding ended up getting a "good laugh out of it," and if you're going for emotions you want people to have when they're at your wedding celebration, jovial laughter is pretty high up on the list.

Shadows said that she didn't convey to the bride what was going on with the furry situation to the bride until well after the wedding.

The bride went on to say that she wanted to clarify that the person inside of the fursuit wasn't a "weird ex from either side" who was pretending to be an animal so they could snoop on the exchange of the matrimonial vows.

The bride added that the furry was pretty much just doing what they were doing and that it all happened to go down on the day of her wedding. From her recounting of the wedding day, it seemed that the furry watching the exchanging of the vows had nothing but the utmost respect for the sanctity of marriage.

That's because the bride said that the person was "bowing" while her and the groom were exchanging vows with one another; at least that's what her wedding guests were telling her.

Before the video ended, Shadows called the entire interaction with the furry, "hard to ignore."

Several TikTokers mentioned that the furry was probably a "therian" who didn't know that they were photobombing someone's special day. But there were also those who thought the person was doing it on purpose.

What do you think? Was the furry trying to garner some attention for themselves and ruin someone's special day? Or was this just a coincidence and whoever was there just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time?