Jana Duggar and Stephen Wissmann said 'I do' on Thursday in Prairie Grove,Arkansas but her sister Jill - who has had a longstanding estrangement from the family - was not one of her bridesmaids alongside their other siblings.
The Counting On star,34 — who moved out of her parent's home in July — opened up about her big day to People,gushing over how she had 'prayed for this for years.'
She and the pastor and bible study leader of the East Fairview Mennonite Church in Milford,Nebraska,31,held their nuptials at The Grand at Willow Springs in front of 500 guests just three months after getting engaged,which she described as a 'dream come true.'
'I think it is one of those things that all girls envision someday,' she told the outlet just days before he got married. 'For me,it felt like,"Okay,it's never coming." But now it's starting to sink in. Reality is starting to set in.
She told the outlet: 'And I'm like,"Wow,this truly is something that I've dreamed of." And just to see it coming about is incredible and kind of hard to believe. It's a dream come true.'
Back in January,she and her husband,Derick,35, admitted that they couldn't remember the 'last time' they had seen Jim Bob - and that it was at least a year prior
At the time,she said she would see her mother while 'celebrating birthdays and some holidays,' but as for her father,she said she did not have any 'individual contact with him.'
'My relationship with my dad got pretty toxic to the point where we had to cut off individual contact with him,' she shared.
'It got to the point where Derick was there to step in and kind of say,"Hey,don't reach out to my wife individually or else I'll have to file a protective order," just because it was so hard for me to handle.'
At the time,she said she 'hoped for a reconciliation' but said there needed to be 'change' first.
'We do love our family ultimately,and I would love for my kids to have their grandparents involved more in their lives,but we also want to make sure that it’s a healthy relationship,' she stated.
In January during an appearance on The Unplanned Podcast,Jill confirmed that she had seen Michelle recently,but when she was asked about the last time she saw her dad,she couldn't even remember.
Derick said he thought it was when their son,Freddy,was born in July 2022,to which Jill added,'Was it that? Or was it a wedding? I can't remember.'
'It was a birthday thing or baby announcement. Some kind of family function,' she decided,to which Derick interjected,'That was over a year ago.'
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