Did Jana Duggar and Stephen Wissmann’s PDA trace at (different) cult rule-breaking?
Followers assume so. And, on the idea that Jana violated Jim Bob’s restrictions earlier than marriage, they’re glad for her.
To recap, inside hours of Jana Duggar’s marriage ceremony date leaking, she married Stephen WIssmann.
None of this suits the sample of a “regular” Duggar marriage ceremony. And there have been hints that Jana and Stephen by no means abided by “courtship” guidelines.
Jana Duggar and Stephen Wissmann are married!
On Thursday, August 15, Jana Duggar married Stephen Wissmann. They’d a comparatively low-key ceremony regardless of Jana’s actuality TV fame and the presence of 500 company.
Jessa Duggar, considered one of Jana’s innumerable sisters, was her maid of honor. Pleasure-Anna, jinger, Johannah, and Jordyn Duggar had been different bridesmaids, and so was sister-in-law Abbie Duggar. (Jill was not a part of the marriage social gathering)
Marriage is all however obligatory withing the Duggar household and to the fundamentalist cult to which they belong. However a lot of how this got here to be is simply too regular for the Duggar world.
Jana is 34 years outdated, moderately than being in her teenagers or very early 20s. She and Stephen had an actual engagement (he proposed in June) as an alternative of a courtship. And Jana and Stephen even (allegedly) dated just a few years in the past and broke up earlier than reuniting early in 2024.
That’s now how the cult raised Jana Duggar and her siblings to reside. She’s dwelling her life like what she is — a grown grownup Millennial — moderately than like her father’s property.
The marriage — and, specifically, the marriage reception — had a variety of Jana’s followers questioning if she and Stephen made different regular selections forward of their nuptials.
What does Jana Duggar and Stephen Wissmann’s PDA imply?
Many people have seen viral movies the place a fundamentalist bride and groom clearly don’t know the best way to kiss on the altar, as a result of they don’t know the best way to kiss.
That didn’t appear to be the case for Jana and Stephen. Although Jana’s siblings had chaperones throughout their oh-so-brief courtships to make sure that they didn’t a lot as “front-hug,” Jana and Stephen had been doing simply positive.
At one second in the course of the marriage ceremony, Stephen picked up his new spouse. Touching the world of Jana’s butt didn’t appear awkward to followers and commenters, who puzzled if this was not new territory for them.
This was about extra than simply courtship guidelines, nevertheless. Loads of snarky posts on social media, together with Twitter, famous that Jana was carrying an exquisite marriage ceremony robe. A marriage robe that bared her shoulders.
Michelle Duggar has defined that, in her cult’s twisted theology, a girl exhibiting any quantity of attractiveness is “defrauding” onlookers as a result of they imagine that it’s the girl’s fault if a person finds her engaging. And, after all, they imagine that solely a married couple could act upon these wishes.
By that orthodoxy, Jana “defrauded” loads of marriage ceremony company. However the larger query is, to be blunt, simply what number of guidelines did Jana and Stephen break earlier than they tied the knot?
Throughout social media, individuals cracked jokes about “entrance hugs,” “[sex worker] shoulders,” and extra — at the same time as they showered Jana with compliments.
Nonetheless, we now have to emphasise that that is all mere hypothesis. Properly, the minimize of the gown isn’t. And neither is Jana’s age, which makes her virtually a geriatric bride by Duggar requirements.
It’s potential that, sooner or later, Jana will open up about her (inside the cult) “outdated maid” standing and what led as much as the marriage. For now, nevertheless, Jana is chalking the timing of her marriage as much as her God and leaving it at that.
The newlyweds are shifting
Along with metaphorically distancing herself from her household’s guidelines, Jana and Stephen are shifting a substantial bodily distance from the Duggar compound, as properly.
Collectively, they’ll reside of their new marital residence in a brand new state. Their new 5-bedroom home (which value solely $275,000) is in Lincoln, Nebraska.
They’ll be near the Wissmann household, whom Jana is aware of properly. And so they’ll be removed from Jim Bob and Michelle and the websites of Josh Duggar’s crimes. That sounds prefer it’s for the most effective.
