Over the course of their 25-year friendship, Emma Smuts-Muller and Laura Donohoe have been there for each other through thick and thin.
But now the pair share an even more special bond, after caring Laura stepped in to be a surrogate mother for her best friend - after being bridesmaid for her just months earlier.
Emma saw her hopes of conceiving dashed after she was diagnosed with breast cancer in September 2019 and had to undergo treatment which affected her fertility.