Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Wedding Planning with Jana Duggar

Jana Duggar, now Jana Wissmann, has been married for almost three months. As most of you know, she left her home in Arkansas for a new life in Nebraska, where she lives with her husband, Stephen Wissmann. Jana just uploaded a new video that features wedding planning, her final weeks at home on the Duggar "farm," wedding dress alterations, and more renovations on her Nebraska fixer upper.

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  1. Didn't we already see the wedding dress, shopping and rennovations in the previous videos?

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  2. You do realize the wedding was three months ago, right? There's no need to keep talking about it.

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    1. Jana is posting new videos to her YouTube about the lead up to her surprise wedding.

      Bless you, you’re rude.

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    2. I agree w/ you. For a family that was trying to keep this wedding so secretive they sure have capitalized on all the details of it months and months after the wedding.

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  3. Do the Duggars only marry people from approved, familiar families? There are so many crossovers with these weddings and shared family or friend relationships among fundamentalists. Is it because they don't associate with a wide range of people?

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    1. I believe you know the answer!

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    2. I grew up in Fundamentalism but i was never in a sheltered bubble like the Duggar kids were as far as who they played with and associated with on a regular basis. I think that was detrimental to them. However most people will marry people who move in the same circles as them. That's not unusual. I mean historically, most people married people who they grew up with, went to school with, went to church with, or lived within a certain x amount of miles radius. And actually i think, becasue of the show, the Duggars came in contact with a wider range of people then most other Fundamentalists would have ever done. It was just the day to day associating that was overly strictly controlled. At least that's my takeaway.

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    3. 8:07 it looks like from the picks of their spouses they were interested in marrying a Christian, not necessarily a denomination.

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    4. @9:40 Yeah that's my parents to a tee. My mom and her three siblings, with the exception of one, all married people that were from their community. She, her sibs and all their spouses went to the same schools and played sports together. Different churches yes, but belief systems were similar.

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    5. @9:04 But the Duggars are only marrying people who were part of their very inner circle, people who were allowed at The Big House. That's not a wide range! Remember viewers going back and spotting future spouses in older videos taken at the house? Videos before there were courtships or engagements on the horizon? And historically, it was not always true that people married locals. Mail order brides and paying women to move to territories were real things. Girls in the 1940's and 50's often went to college to meet a husband, very much encouraged by their parents who ideally would send their daughters to the Seven Sisters schools to catch an Ivy League husband. That shifted to meeting spouses in the workplace in the 60's and 70's as more single women started working, often with that workplace being far from home (think "Mary Tyler Moore Show"). You no longer have to marry the boy or girl "next door" and if you're not sheltered like the Duggars are, you'll be meeting all sorts of people with different backgrounds.

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    6. @7:36 As i already said, i was not in a sheltered bubble nor am i today. Today my social life is a bit to be desired, but that is largely due to my having no church at the moment, but get around and i meet a lot of different people in my own community and elsewhere. And i didn't say the Duggars picked from a wide range. I said most people marry people who move in the same circles. That included(s) community (i.e. the boy/girl next door), church, college, jobs etc. So really people still today pick spouses within the range of their circle whatever it may be. The mail order brides was unique for the time becasue so few women lived on the frontier and men needed wives. The closest thing we have to that today is online dating websites. I personally do not like online dating, but that's me.

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  4. I know this is the most wonderful thing that has ever happened to Jana, but I think she's gone into overkill and needs to stop posting these repetitive videos.

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    1. I don't know why she has felt the need lately to share her living quarters, whether the tiny house or this one. Seems like someone who hired security for her wedding would be more worried about daily security at her home.

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    2. I love the videos and I’m sure many more do as well. There are thousands of youtubers, so different people can select videos according to their tastes.

      She is slowly rolling out different aspects of the wedding planning and renovating, which is the way she chooses to post. I personally really enjoy process videos—I watch a variety of YouTube videos of people slowly renovating. I find it soothing when I choose to relax for a few minutes watching tv.

      So to each their own and Jana is appealing to a certain audience that enjoys her type of content.

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    3. I think Jana is just excited that she's finally at this stage of her life and she wants to share it.

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  5. I remember a time when Michelle's knees needed to be blurred out when she was on water skis. How things have changed...or was it all a show back then?

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    1. @1:56 Just need to keep the thighs covered and everything's good. Worrying about knees is overkill. Michelle may have come to realize that. Although i personally prefer skirts longer then knee length.

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    2. Or since is a adult they let her do what she wanted and let few things slide and be so stict.

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    3. 8:28 Are you saying that all along, Jana wanted to show knees and shoulders and necklines in public, the way she does now? That her parents were too strict? That it's OK for a woman to show skin? A woman who co-wrote a book about modesty and purity? There's some kind of conflict there.

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    4. The total 180 that these girls did is a shocker. Was it all a mental ascent and not a heart one back in those days? Frankly i don't know how they can change their lifestyles so completely when the Bible does back up the modesty/purity they had.

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    5. @7:46 The only reason they got a show way back when was because of their family size and how conservatively they dressed and acted. Once the show caught on, modesty and purity was really emphasized and presented as their lifestyle (and they said what they thought the rest of the world was doing wrong by their famous phrase "Nike"). All that has gone by the wayside now. Other than still being conservative politically, they're dressing and acting like any other "worldly" family. I'd like to know how they explain that change. It's as if they weren't strong enough morally to keep up the other lifestyle. It has definitely slipped away from them. Too bad they couldn't remain the examples of moral fortitude that everyone thought they were. Too bad they can't come right out and admit that, only continue to now show us knees, shoulders, shorts, tank tops, music with a beat, dancing, and everything else they once claimed was wrong. That includes what landed Josh in trouble too. People understand if you admit things. They don't understand if you flaunt things.

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  6. Wow, what a fun time to plan for your wedding with Jessa, she was an amazing matron of honor. The little girls are so adorable brushing your hair. You and Stephen are like the energizer bunny…you really made that worn out house look like your home. I’m so glad the door was open to your pantry, I was wondering how big it is, looks roomy.

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  7. Next Jana will be pregnant.

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    1. I hope she doesn't go from having to raise her siblings right into motherhood. She deserves some time away from parenting.

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    2. Since that is the expected outcome of marriage, yes. Soon I hope so she doesn't have a lot of angst.

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    3. At her age, if she wants kids she'd better get started. And I'm sorry. but Jana did not "raise" her siblings. Michelle did that job. Jana just helped out where needed like the good responsible daughter and oldest sister she is.

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    4. u are kidding michelle never raised those kids the older girls done everything remembere when they were going to florida for josh and anna wedding michelle and jimbob just hopped on a plane leaving the older girls to pack for the rest of the family and get them to florida

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  8. I’d really like to see a wedding planning video with Johanna or Jennifer.

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    1. They're teenagers! Why on earth would you want them to get married?!

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  9. Jana has shown a lot of her sweet personality along side these videos on the updates of home remodel and wedding. It was so sweet to hear her talk about how bounce houses would fit in between the two buildings of her wedding and reception.. Not many brides are considering the joy of the young children when they are looking at a venue. It looks like Jana has enduring loving character strengths, like her mother, always considering the feeling of the others, she will definitely have a successful, joy filled marriage.

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