Joe Duggar Marries Kendra Caldwell in an Intimate Ceremony
Joseph Duggar has finally tied the knot with his girlfriend, Kendra Caldwell.
The ever-growing Duggar family has a new member. On Friday, Sep. 8, 2017, Joseph Duggar married his 18-year-old girlfriend Kendra Caldwell in an intimate ceremony attended by the whole family. TLC announced the news via a video featuring the newly-wed couple themselves.
Kendra and her family have been long-time friends with the Duggars and in fact, her father, Pastor Caldwell, was the one who officiated the ceremony, marrying the two in front of family and friends at the First Baptist Church in Arkansas last week. In the video, Joe and Kendra also talked about their wedding kiss. Just like his siblings, Joe and Kendra had their first kiss during the wedding and the experience was way beyond their expectations.
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"Amazing," Kendra said about the kiss.
"You always have expectations of the first kiss but it blew all those expectations away," he agreed, adding, "It was amazing."
The 22-year-old groom admitted that seeing Kendra walk down the aisle made him tear up a bit. In an exclusive interview with People, the couple gushed about their excitement about their married life.
"It is an amazing feeling to be husband and wife," Duggar says. "It's something that I've always dreamed of to have a wife and to raise a family in a way that honors the lord. We are to very excited to see what God has in the future for us," he added.
It has been revealed that prior to the wedding, the couple feasted on some Mexican food during their rehearsal dinner. Josiah Duggar, Joe's brother, served as his best man while Kendra's sister Lauren was her maid of honor.
Joe is the eighth child of Jim-Bob and Michelle Duggar and was only 13 years old when "19 Kids and Counting" first aired. It was back in March when news of their courtship first broke out. Joe proposed to Kendra during his sister Joy-Anna's wedding to Austin Forsyth last May.
