OK, you can get most of these videos here, but I thought it would be fun to put them here on my blog, plus more, for these reasons:

1. I love the Duggars, although I don’t agree with all their choices. Some of their choices were too legalistic and too strict. Like no dancing. It’s been interesting to see the fall-out happen from the strictness they enforced and not compensating the children fairly for their appearances on the show, what with Jill and Jinger’s books coming out. It’s also been heartwarming to see the family find hope and healing In Christ. They have compensated the children, loosened up on their strictness, at least from what I can tell, and moved forward after all that that plus Josh’s arrest and imprisonment.
2. I admire that the Duggars were so willing to have so many children, embracing the culture of life to the fullest extent. I admire that they taught them Biblical principles the best they could. Of course, I’m sad about what happened with Josh. Every child has his or her agency. Sometimes children make bad choices, no matter how well they are taught and how much they are loved. None of us are perfect parents or children and we all make mistakes.
3. I love that the children are such hard workers, enterprising, and help each other with their projects.
4. I’m so happy that Jana, the oldest daughter, got married!!!! She looks so happy with her one true love, Stephen Wissman.
5. I love that Jana is so handy with power tools, gardening, decorating, remodeling, etc.
6. I want a place where the videos are in the order that I want them to be.
7. I want a place where my comments can be easily seen on some of the videos.

So here we go!

Little did we know last year, when Jana released this video over here, about her tiny house, that she was secretly dating her beau from the singing Wissmann family. She had also released these projects below about what she’d been doing over the past months of 2024, keeping mum about her biggest project, falling in love with Stephen. He’s in the video below, singing with his family.

An Internet search says that she got engaged on June 15, 2024. In this video below she is taking her little sisters along with her to give him a surprise visit at his worksite in Nebraska.

In the video above we see Stephen give her a joke engagement ring, a ring pop, which she puts on her finger. As far as I can find, she has not released a video of their actual engagement. Then we have this video below where she showed the house, in Nebraska, that they were renovating together. He was already living in it. She moved in after the wedding. She took her sisters from the Duggar home in Arkansas and stayed at the home in the guest bedroom with her sisters when they visited. Good-old fashioned Duggar chaperoning at work!

The one below shows more of their work on the house plus some summer fun with the family on a lake.

Then here’s the video of the renovation of just the kitchen.

This is all so fun to see them prepare their home as they prepare for the wedding as well. I wonder if all their dates consisted of remodeling the home.

Next is the fun bachelorette party that Jana took with her mom, sister-in-law Abbie, and all the sisters except Jill, in California. My favorite moment is at the 17:51 mark when Michelle Duggar turns into Mama Bear and chases after a guy who stole someone else’s wallet on the streets of Santa Barbara. I love how she says to the bad guy, “Your mama would not be pleased with you!” Michelle called the cops on the guy. So they came and confronted the bad guy. Way to go Supermama Michelle, using your mama bear chemistry to fight for truth and justice!

It was at this party, above, that sister Jinger announced her 3rd pregnancy while the sisters and mom were in the hot tub.

Now let’s watch the bridal shower and the bachelor party.

I love the dress she chose, below, in her wedding dress and venue shopping trips with her sisters. She asked for the dress to be altered, and then it didn’t quite turn out how she wanted. So then her sister-in-law said that her friend could help. That appears in the wedding video part 1, which is further down on this page. This friend, Bella, worked her magic with tailoring and a gravity-fed iron to make the dress the one of Jana’s dreams.

Then there’s the countdown to the wedding. Such excitement!

The big day! It was August 15, 2024, the same day that I toured Orchard House, the home of Little Women’s author Louisa May Alcott. It was part of my trip to New England and NYC which I blogged about over here. It’s just so fun that each of us got to see a dream come true on the same day. She shared the wedding in two parts, below. It’s also cool that the day was the wedding anniversary of Brandon and Michaela Bates Keilen, since the Bates are longtime family friends of the Duggars, also with 19 children.

Speaking of the Bates, it’s also fun to see Josie Bates Balka as Jana’s stylist, doing her hair and makeup the morning of the wedding.

Here’s sister Jinger’s take on the wedding.

Where did they go on their honeymoon? The first few days were in Arkansas and then St. Lucia. I don’t blame them for taking a few days to take it easy after all the stressful wedding prep to just chill without having to jet off somewhere far away.

I just love seeing her so happy! Seeing her happy has brought a lot of people joy, people who have been waiting to see her marry for a long time, as she was 34. Someone made a comment on her wedding video on YouTube saying that her mother has dementia. When the daughter told her that Jana got married and showed her the wedding video the woman smiled. She started talking about Jana using her name. The memory of watching Jana when she was younger pierced through the fog and brought the woman joy. That whole thing made me smile. It’s like Jana is everybody’s granddaughter, daughter, or sister, and we are celebrating with her. May she have a wonderful life of wedded bliss!

If you want more of the Duggars, go here.

Want my advice for helping a marriage to last? Go here.

If you want to see the big picture of wedding symbolism, from a Hebrew and plan of salvation perspective, go here and here.