Right on the heels of news that Joy-Anna Duggar and Austin Forsyth married last weekend after all comes another cause for celebration:
Joseph Duggar and Kendra Caldwell got engaged!
The 22-year-old and his 18-year-old fiancee announced their courtship just a few months ago, and just made things even more official.
When he proposed … at Joy-Anna Duggar’s wedding!
People magazine was the first publication to confirm that he popped the question last weekend as his little sister walked down the aisle.
The pair, who met through their church, confirmed it.
“We are super excited. It’s great to not be courting anymore, now we’re engaged!” Joseph Duggar and his beaming bride-to-be shared.
“I’m so happy and so shocked. There’s so many words I want to say, but just shocked,” says Kendra, while Joseph revealed:
“I was definitely nervous going into it, but I wasn’t afraid that she was going to say no, because she has said, ‘I’m just waiting on you!’”
Not a lot of marriage proposals get turned down in Duggar Nation, it’s true. A courtship, after all, is basically a precursor to an engagement.
When news of Joseph Duggar and Kendra Caldwell courting first surfaced in March, few expected they would not get engaged soon.
We just weren’t expecting quite this soon!
“We are so excited to share the news with others that we are courting,” Joseph said then. “Our families are close friends through church.”
“This has allowed Kendra and me to get to know each other. She’s the best!” Duggar added, and obviously, the feeling was quite mutual.
“I’m looking forward to getting to spend more time with Joseph as we take this exciting step toward a new season in life,” Kendra added.
“It’s a really wonderful moment!”
Counting On Season 4, featuring Joy-Anna and Austin’s wedding, and Joseph asking Kendra’s dad’s permission to court, begins June 12.
Not much of a spoiler to say that the scene teased in the Counting On Season 4 trailer ends up with a positive result for Joe in the end.
As for talk that Joseph got Kendra Caldwell pregnant before marriage and that’s why this is being fast-tracked even by Duggar standards?
It makes for great gossip … but that’s likely all it is. The Duggars stick to their guns when it comes to their dating and courtship rules.
Much as we’d all love a great rebellion story along those lines, we’ll have to be content with mini-scandals like Jinger wearing shorts.
Probably for the best.
