Unfortunately, not every bride-to-be has the love and support of their family as they're going into their new marriage. Sister Wives star Janelle Brown recently revealed that when she got married to Kody Brown, most of her family were not at all supportive of her joining a plural marriage and she says because of that, she didn't even have a real wedding dress to wear for her marriage.
Janelle Brown's mother was the only person supporting her marriage to Kody Brown
According to Janelle Brown, most of her family was angry with her decision to join the LDS church and join Kody Brown's plural marriage, meaning that she didn't even end up getting a wedding dress and most of her family chose to boycott her wedding.
"I actually didn't have a wedding dress. When Kody and I got married, my family was very upset with my decision to join the faith," Janelle Brown explained in a confessional during a recent episode of Sister Wives and said that instead of a traditional wedding dress, she wore a modest green dress for her wedding. Since the Sister Wives episode was focused on helping Christine Brown shop for a wedding dress for her marriage to David Woolley, it brought up a lot of difficult memories of Janelle's own wedding.
Janelle Brown shared during the episode that her decision to marry Kody Brown had been one that took a lot of time and thinking, but that after she joined the LDS church, marry him "made sense" and she decided to go through with it.
During the episode of Sister Wives, she explained, "After several months of investigation, I decided that it was for me. Before that, I had just put my interest in Kody in the back of my mind. After I had joined the faith, it became very apparent to me that what I’d been experiencing and how I’d been feeling towards Kody were stirrings that I did belong in his family."
Although most of her family was unsupportive of her decision, there was one member of her family that was on board with her marrying Kody and was at the wedding: Janelle's mother. According to Janelle, her mom was happy with the decision because she was also planning to join a plural marriage -- to Kody's father.
"My mom was at the wedding because she came to save me from the polygamists and ended up marrying Kody's dad three months before we got married. So my mom was obviously okay with it," she shared wduring the episode.
Since Janelle Brown has shared shots of herself going on vacation with her family in the years since her 1993 wedding, it seems like her family has come around on supporting her, but it's obvious that not having her family's support when she got married wasn't easy for the Sister Wives star.