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Jinger Vuolo (née Duggar) revealed that her brother Jason Duggar’s wedding to wife Maddie Grace broke a family rule set in place by parents Jim Bob Duggar and Michelle Duggar.
Jason, 24, and Maddie opted to have a dance floor at their wedding reception that took place in Tennessee on October 3, making it the first Duggar wedding to include dancing.
“Some stuff happened at this wedding that’s never happened at a Duggar wedding before,” Jinger’s husband, Jeremy Vuolo, said during the Wednesday, October 23, episode of “The Jinger & Jeremy Podcast.” “You know what I’m talking about, three words—’Cha, Cha Slide.’”
Jinger, 30, noted that Jason’s wedding was the first in her family to include a dance floor, and she revealed that many of the guests didn’t know how to dance unless the song provided specific instructions.
“No one knows how to dance,” the former Counting On star said. “I mean, not no one, some of the siblings, some of them have done dance lessons and some of the bridesmaids. But it’s not part of the culture at all and so it just was interesting. That was an experience.”
After noting that Jana Duggar and Stephen Wissman shared a first dance during their wedding in August, Jason and Maddie provided the opportunity for everyone to get on the dance floor.
“Jason and Maddie had the first dance and then they opened the dance floor,” Jeremy, 37, explained. “This poor DJ had to be so confused as to what was happening. Beautiful first dance and then daddy-daughter dance and then they open the dance floor and he was playing hits.”
According to Jeremy, the DJ would get confused after noticing the crowd would only get on the dance floor when he played songs with instructions.
“I went up to him at one point, and I was like, ‘Bro, do you have any idea what you gotta do at this wedding?’” Jeremy said. “And he was like, ‘No, but it’s wild.’ And I just said, ‘Dude, you just need to know, they don’t dance.’”
Despite being a new experience for the Duggars, Jeremy insisted that including dancing in the ceremony made for “a ton of fun.” He then told his wife, “But it made me realize, Jinger, as many weddings as we go to, we gotta take some dance lessons.”
Jim Bob, 59, and Michelle, 58, raised their kids under a strict set of rules, including that they weren’t allowed to dance. While the parents have said that dancing “promotes sensuality,” Jessa Duggar told Us Weekly in 2014 that dancing encompasses “sex, drugs, all that type of stuff.”
Jason and Maddie tied the knot during a ceremony that was attended by 300 guests.
“Especially for us, because I’m from Tennessee, and so half my family lives in Tennessee and Kentucky, and then we’re moving to Arkansas,” Maddie told People about the ceremony in a story published on October 4. “It’s just a big party where everybody gets together.”
She added that it was special to have “everybody together just to celebrate” their nuptials. “You never get another day in your life where all of your loved ones are together,” she added.
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