Jingermy - We 'Knew' the Bride When She Used to Snarky Eyeroll
A million thanks to @Carm_88 for reminding me in a previous thread how much I loved this song!
Recap: Jinger and Jeremy got married and it was orders of magnitude less tacky than other Duggar nuptials. At least until the bride's mother dressed herself in the dark. Lots of discussion about shoes, honeymooning in Austrailia, and the equivalent of a joint thesis was written on the bridesmaid's dresses.
Continued from here...
As far as more of the boys getting married, it is really not uncommon in conservative/patriarchal societies for the average age of marriage to be much lower for women than men. Men-as-providers are given more time to learn a trade and establish themselves. Men-as-people are given a little more time to grow up (which is a good thing, i guess, since they will own their wives like possessions and discipline them like children). Its sad, but historically well established. The 28 year old Jeremy marr