Jana Duggar has lastly seen her youthful self’s desires realized—a white gown and her beloved one on the finish of the aisle.
On Thursday, Aug. 15, in a “basic, elegant” ceremony, the 19 Youngsters and Counting alum married musician Stephen Wissmann in Prairie Grove, Arkansas,
The newlyweds exchanged conventional vows at The Grand at Willow Springs in entrance of 500 company, together with the maid of honor, Jessa Duggar Seewald, her sister-in-law, Abbie Duggar, and sisters Pleasure-Anna Forsyth, Johannah Duggar, Jinger Duggar Vuolo, and Jordyn Duggar as bridesmaids.
“I feel it’s a kind of issues that every one women envision sometime,” the 34-year-old instructed PEOPLE forward of their nuptials. “For me, it felt like, ‘Okay, it’s by no means coming.’ However now it’s beginning to sink in. Actuality is beginning to set in. And I’m like, ‘Wow, this really is one thing that I’ve dreamed of.’”
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In step with her need for a complicated day, Jana stored every thing minimalist and easy for the general affair.
“The venue is already so beautiful and picturesque that I didn’t wish to take an excessive amount of from that,” Jana stated. “The blokes might be in black fits, the women in champagne-colored attire, after which simply white flowers and greenery.”
Jana—the eldest daughter of the Duggar household’s 19 youngsters—walked down the aisle to “Holy, Holy, Holy” in an off-the-shoulder ivory satin ball robe together with her dad, Jim Bob Duggar. “The gown felt stylish and a bit like a princess.”
The previous TLC star talked about that one of many extra vital issues for the day was ensuring their family members have been properly included, as there are a number of them.
“Coming from two larger households, we love to have the ability to get collectively and have a good time moments like these,” stated Jana. “And so to have all of them there, it simply means rather a lot.”
She and Stephen—considered one of 13 siblings and a member of The Wissmann Household gospel band—obtained engaged on June 15 after rekindling their romance earlier this 12 months. The pair had briefly dated years prior, however Jana instructed PEOPLE that they continued to speak to one another “on and off.”
“[The Wissmanns] would journey and sing. I bear in mind them coming to our residence, in all probability 13 or so years in the past, and so they ended up getting snowed in right here, which hardly occurs in Arkansas,” recalled Jana.
“I bear in mind simply enjoying video games late into the evening, doing puzzles collectively till the snow melted off, and so they have been capable of journey again residence. I don’t actually bear in mind Stephen that properly as a result of I’m older than him, and so he was by no means on my radar.”