Jana Duggar is a wife!
The 34-year-old tied the knot with Stephen Wissmann in Prairie Grove, Ark., on Thursday, People reports.
The couple said “I do” in front of 500 guests during a “classic, elegant” ceremony at The Grand at Willow Springs, per the outlet.
Jana’s father, Jim Bob Duggar, walked her down the aisle to the song “Holy, Holy, Holy.”
The bride’s sisters were also involved in the nuptials, with Jessa Duggar Seewald serving as the maid of honor. Joy-Anna Forsyth, Johannah Duggar, Jinger Duggar Vuolo and Jordyn Duggar were bridesmaids along with Jana’s sister-in-law Abbie Duggar.
The wedding news comes after the US Sun reported that the newlyweds obtained their marriage license in their home state of Arkansas on Wednesday.
Duggar and Wissmann, who got engaged in June, first sparked romance rumors after they were spotted together in December 2020. However, they have kept their romance off of social media and never publicly addressed their relationship status.
People reports the two first met years ago through their families. The “19 Kids and Counting” star’s brother Jeremiah Duggar is married to Wissmann’s sister Hannah.
Like Jana, Wissmann also comes from a large, religious family with 13 children. According to his Instagram, he owns a business and is a private pilot.
Jana sparked engagement rumors last month after posting a series of photos with a diamond ring on that finger.
In the pictures, the soon-to-be bride posed with her brother John and his wife, Abbie. Although she hid her left hand in two of the pictures, eagle-eyed fans still noticed the sparkler in one of the pictures.
Jana is the eldest daughter of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar and was often called “Cinderella Duggar” for not prioritizing marriage like a lot of her siblings, who mostly wed in their early 20s.
However, in July 2020, the TLC star told Us Weekly she was “not that worried” about finding “The One.”
“Yes, I long to be married and one day I think that will come, but I think … I’m just also just trying to stay busy with whatever comes along my path,” she told the outlet.
Despite feeling “a little more pressure” to find a husband, Jana said she wanted to make “the most” of her single years.
“I think if I sit there and I’m like, ‘Oh no, I’m not married’ and just [get] all worried about it, it makes things way worse,” she shared.
Jana explained that she didn’t want to settle and hoped to find a love as strong as her parents, who wed in 1984.
“The genuine love that they still have for one another … this young love and they still have that, you know, today. I think that’s rare to see couples that are their age and been married that long.”
HEBER SPRINGS, Ark. (KAIT/KARK) – An Arkansas teen with cancer has gone viral after her reaction to receiving a thoughtful gift was posted online.
Content partner station KARK reported a TikTok of 13-year-old Kaylee Walker receiving a gift over 5.8 million views.
Walker said when her hair fell out due to her cancer treatment she felt insecure about going back to school.
Her reaction was caught on camera and viewers donated to get Walker another wig.
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The Arkansas State Capitol was evacuated around 7 a.m. Thursday morning after an employee in the state Capitol received an email about a bomb threat that was sent to multiple state Capitols, a spokesman for the secretary of state said.
Arkansas Capitol Police officers “took precautionary measures, evacuated the building, made sure the building was all clear [and] reopened the building,” said Chris Powell, a spokesman for Secretary of State John Thurston.
“There is no ongoing threat that we are aware of,” Powell said. “It is a hoax.”
Powell said there was a similar incident in January in which multiple state Capitols received similar bomb threats.
Two people died in a single-vehicle crash Tuesday night in rural Poinsett County, a preliminary report from Arkansas State Police states.
Tommy McMasters, 41, and Vernon Houston, 71, both of Harrisburg, died around 9:25 p.m. after the 2005 Lincoln Town Car that Houston was driving west on Arkansas 14, near Arkansas 163, left the road and crashed into the treeline, the report states.
The investigating trooper reported that the weather was clear and the road was dry at the time.
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