Woman Approached by Stranger Asking Her to Be Witness at Courthouse Wedding. What She Does Next Goes Viral (Exclusive)

• Sumiriya Morton was at the courthouse with her sister, waiting for her sibling's case to be heard, when she left the room to use the bathroom
• As the 25-year-old from Wilson, N.C., was walking to the restroom, she noticed someone dressed as a groom approach her
• The groom explained that he needed two witnesses for his wedding and asked if she'd be one of them. Without hesitation, Morton agreed

Sumiriya Morton was at the courthouse with her sister, waiting for her sibling's case to be heard, when she left the room to use the bathroom.

As the 25-year-old from Wilson, N.C., was walking to the restroom, she noticed someone dressed as a groom approach her. He asked if she could do him a favor. The groom explained that he needed two witnesses for his wedding and asked if she'd be one of them. Without hesitation, Morton agreed. She even offered to go back down the hall to get her sister and her girlfriend to join them.

"I didn’t really have a reaction," Morton tells PEOPLE exclusively. "I just said, 'Yes, sure, why not?' I think it was just a random pick because I was walking down the hall at the same time he was."

From there, Morton, her sister and her girlfriend made their way into the courtroom alongside the bride and groom, and watched the couple exchange vows.

"It was a pretty fast process. We sat down, and I recorded for them because I figured they would want the memory," Morton adds. "They didn’t ask me to record, but once I let them know, the bride was super happy and grateful."

After the couple said, "I do," Morton and her sister hugged the newlyweds and congratulated them. Then, she and her sister rushed back to the courtroom to get to her sister’s case, so they didn’t get to exchange further details.

Not long after, Morton posted the video she’d captured on TikTok. "good deed for the day i guess..," she captioned the video. But, then she noticed the video start to go viral, and she was shocked.

Since then, the video has amassed more than 6.5 million views and 12,300 comments.

"Normalize random acts of humanity like this!!" one user replied.

"Them asking a stranger makes me feel like they probably didn’t have anyone else to be there for them, which makes this 1,000 times sweeter," another person commented.

Someone else said, "Aww, they’re gonna remember you 😭🖤."

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"It was a lot of mixed emotions and feelings about the comments because some people were very negative, but the positive outweighed the negative, and there was so much love," Morton says. "One comment that stuck with me was, 'I hope your pillow is always the temperature you want, I hope your chargers never break, I hope you never run out of gas, and I hope you have a joyful life and marriage.' "

"That made me cry because it was so kind," she adds. "You never know what people are going through, and I really needed to hear that. I'm so grateful."

Morton adds, "I hope people take away to just be kind and be open to helping others. You don’t always need something in return for doing small gestures, it costs nothing to be kind!"