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They posted TONS of pictures of their trip on Instagram, especially at the State Fair (Indiana, IIRC, it's been a few months), plus more when they hit the Wallers'. They totally left CinderJana on the cutting room floor.

She looked very unpregnant during the previous campaign season and at Jessa's wedding.

Jana was with them on this trip. I guess it messes up the script of "family trip" to show the unpaid sister-nanny; it might cast a pall on Anna's ability to take care of the three kids she has (with the obvious "fever" to have more). I hate it when TLC fucks up real life in favor of a script that will be believed as gospel by the leghumpers. *le sigh*

No, she cuts of "children" at "ch" and changes it to just Paul. They did a good job keeping that under wraps; I guess there was a check in it for them.

I've been scouring social media for the Waller baby gender reveal! I figured they held off because Smuganna attended the party when they were in Chicago back in August or thereabouts. @Ljohnson1987, where did you hear/read this?

I've been scouring social media for the Waller baby gender reveal! I figured they held off because Smuganna attended the party when they were in Chicago back in August or thereabouts. @Ljohnson1987, where did you hear/read this?

Jinger, whom I am almost positive runs the Instagram, most likely also runs the Facebook. Whoever it is, they're deleting and blocking all that LGBTQ nonsense pretty quickly. A facebook acquaintance actually got blocked for merely LIKING a "gay kiss" post. Freedom of speech does not also mean freedom from criticism, or ridicule, or being called out due to blatant hypocrisy. A lesson that the thin-skinned Duggars refuse to learn as they ridiculously "stand alone" with all their homophobe friends.

I think that Smuggar having to work more than two hours a day, more than once a week, is putting the kibosh on their sex life. Back when he "worked" at the car lot, he came and went as he pleased; there was likely plenty of Afternoon Delight while the kiddos napped. They don't have that luxury anymore. Thank heavens for small mercies.

Benessa have also flooded the interweb with multiple selfies today. Hopefully, their collective narcissism, now that they're freely allowed to express it, will be their downfall. I also think that lack of word regarding their living arrangements points to the fact that Boob put them in Smuggar's old digs. Been there, done that... edited because the post duplicated itself...weirdness...

The biggest irony here is that the loudest critics of The Kiss were the Duggars' own leghumpers. I wonder how many of them didn't survive Jessa's scorched-earth mass-banning from Instagram last week? I know I didn't make the cut, and my comment was pretty tame. Someone needs to grow thicker skin. That Jinger, who runs the duggarfam accounts, is now posting that other kissing pic, in addition to the passive-aggressive "stand alone" bullshit (since when have the Duggars ever "stood alone" on any issue?), shows how deeply in Damage Control mode the Duggars have become because of this. They can't see the forest past their trees of idiocy and misplaced self-righteousness.

That's the TTH. Smuggar "preached" at the Church of the Holy Plane Hangar this morning. eta: the Boob/Mechelle pic was choreographed right down to the hand behind the neck and filters. Can you say Damage Control? I wonder if Jessa doesn't even know about the blog, but did find out about the response to the pic and made that the basis of her passive-aggressive IG dig? She was deleting "negative" comments pretty much as quickly as they were posted, so she was obviously not honeymooning. I suspect that they got a weekend at a hotel, and Bin was back to school/"work" Monday or Tuesday. Jessa posted that pic on Wednesday (IIRC), so they were definitely home by then since she had time to delete/ban people (apparently myself included).

Nah, Boob/Mechelle copied Benessa's pic to the most minute of details, down to the filters. Totally damage control. Add to that the trauma to either Jana or Jinger, who most likely took that picture. Jessa is a pro at selfies; Mechelle, not so much. edited because it duplicated my response and I now can't get rid of the quote box below. WTF??? :/

@Barb23: You're right. I forgot about the leghumper maternity client who volunteered to make the cake. So we have yet another person to blame for contributing to this hot mess of a wedding. :D

Not tree-hugging liberal. No way. Just more fundie-lite. I don't see her homeschooling kids at all. Plenty of fundie-lites send their kids to the ebil public schools. See: Dillards. Ben is attending real community college, albeit online right now. He's going to have to set foot on a real campus once he transfers if he plans on actually getting a degree. Not every class he needs is going to be found online. This can only be a good thing, especially as a Poly Sci major (if he's actually changed majors). He's definitely going to encounter people with different points of view and he's going to be forced to think critically about them, rather than dismiss them out of hand with fundie-speak.

I agree that she'll bail once she has a nice nest egg, but I think they could well go the other direction once they're done "playing the game" to get out of the house. Of course, they can't go very far until the cameras go away, and given that Jill's wedding drew the biggest ratings for TLC in 4 years, that's gonna be a while down the road.

Sierra (Dominguez) is a housewife with 4 kids (both easily verifiable via her FB). She also baked the lopsided cake. As we also know, VEnessa is a midwife. When would she realistically have time to plan weddings (and what if a client decided to go into labor that day?). I feel pretty safe in saying that neither woman is a wedding planner by profession, although SIerra may have coordinated a MUCH smaller wedding or two in the past. Or who knows? Maybe since she was already baking the cake maybe she just volunteered herself to Jill? I'm curious what experience VEnessa had that made Jill think she'd be an effective Organizer of the Masses.

I'm sure Boob/agents/TLC put the kibosh on Benessa's social media until they get the wedding in the can, maybe even a little later. You know, distance makes the heart grow fonder....I think their hope is that people will forget all that nastiness. They should have just stuck to selfies. Narcissistic? Sure. But comparatively benign.

One bone of contention about the reception back at the TTH: these people weren't all their "very best friends." A video surfaced not long after the wedding (it's how we got the first glimpses of that horrible duct tape dress). In the video, a woman asked Boob to tell her husband that she was expecting. Boob had to ask what his name was. Such "close" friends. Although in this case, I imagine it was a couple who used A Mommy's Butterfly for prior midwifery services, so the wife likely knew VEnessa and, tangentially, Jill. That said, I doubt the couple are THAT close to Jill. eta: I saw some candid pics from the "real" reception. A guest posted a shit ton of TTH reception pics on FB but has since locked it down; apparently the "no pictures" edict wasn't as strict since TLC didn't film it. From her pics, it appeared that a lot of cooking went down at the TTH that day. That means many, many women probably didn't even get to see the actual wedding since they were preparing for this party.

She announced that she has ten bridesmaids, so I think any thoughts of an "intimate backyard wedding" should be tossed out the window. Their invitation is all over the interwebs; they're getting married in a church. Not quite the 3500 seat mega-church that Jill had, but a more intimate (about 1000 seat) venue. Don't forget, she sent out 800 invitations. With kids, she could rival Jill's numbers if she has a better percentage of people showing up.

Exactly. Add to that a dedicated leghumper and you can pretty easily ascertain that she wasn't paid for her (shoddy at best) efforts. Can you imagine what a real wedding planner (or two, as was the case here) would have cost Boob? They were famewhore/leghumping freebies.

Neither wedding planner was "fancy." The food coordinator was Sierra, the "cake doctor" who "rescued" Michael's first birthday cake. I doubt that neither she nor Venessa (the logistical "planner") were paid.

She just HAD to remind everyone that she has a "covenant marriage" and is therefore better than you, she is the most speshul of snowflakes. *eyeroll*

"Grumpy Guy" has become the mascot of another group I'm in. He RULES!

As for Josie, MEchelle has claimed that Josie IS getting assistance. What that consists of is anyone's guess, but to me, she acts out like a stereotypical baby of the family. It has NOTHING to do with her being a micropreemie. I can only speak for me, and what I see is a spoiled brat who has been allowed to run pretty much wild. eta: Josiah was an usher. I only saw the tiniest glimpse of him when VEnessa (yes, that's how she spells it) corralled the troops outside the swinging doors of the auditorium before the ceremony.

I was around for a live snark thread, but actually watching it is ten times worse. And as the THs are progressing, it occurred to me that Jilly Muffin had already been stuffed and likely impregnated during their segments. I'll show myself out.