Most of the time I’ll just give it a like on Facey and keep scrolling.

Don’t get me wrong - I’m very sentimental …

I cried in The Notebook just like everyone else, I was emotionally traumatised when Mufasa died too, but engagements just don’t do it for me.

However, when someone you love, someone you’ve shared almost your entire life with announces their engagement, you want to sing it from the rooftops and race them to the chapel.

FINALLY someone you REALLY care about is getting married and it’s not just your second cousin twice removed or your aunty’s fifth marriage.

My best friend just got married last week - it was beautiful - and it really punched me square in the feels.

I’ve known Stacey for most of my life, since we were eight years old actually.

I remember I was with her when I found out what the birds and the bees were; we both plunged our heads into our pillows in pure disgust that our parents did THAT to create US, ewww.

When we first got our Nokia 2100 mobile phones, we spent the entire Christmas holidays playing snake because we were 12 and had no one to send text messages to and phone calls were expensive AF back then.

She’s been there through everything; the good, the bad, the too-tight turtleneck skivvies and the inevitable bad haircuts (I had a bob once).

She has been the most consistent person in my life, aside from family.

And now she’s getting married?

Wow, what a grown up thing to do.

It made me realise how much life had gradually changed and how we’d changed together.

I’m 27, so I’m definitely aware that my best friend (also the same age) getting married isn’t the craziest concept in the world; in fact lots of my friends have gotten married.

Some even *wait for it* have had a baby. I’ve noticed it’s definitely a bit more of a trend now that I’m in my late 20s.

So when I sat down to write a few words for Stacey’s wedding, it wasn’t exactly a piece of cake to put pen to paper.

I didn’t expect to get so emotional about it.

Emotional because I get really nervous public speaking but also emotional because of the gravity behind the situation.

It’s just a marriage; just a ceremony binding two people together forever, no biggie - right?

Actually, it was kind of a big deal. And I totally felt that as I stood up in front of everyone at the reception.

And although it’s been a long time since we convinced each other it would be hilarious to snort wizz fizz, our friendship has grown and evolved just like our sense of humour has.

Getting up in front of a room full of mostly strangers telling them about how much Stacey meant to me made me realise I hadn’t entirely appreciated our friendship until that moment.

Why did it take writing a maid of honour speech to do that?

Don’t wait until you’re professing your love in some kind of public forum to show a little gratitude to those closest to you.

Riley-Rose Harper can be heard on Hit 104.9 from 6-9am on weekdays.