Ethan Plath wasn't certain of sister Lydia Plath's whirlwind romance through the Welcome to Plathville season 7 premiere — particularly after his personal marriage resulted in divorce.
The Tuesday, July 22, premiere centered on new beginnings for the Plath household. Ethan, 27, and sister Moriah Plath have been newly single when the cameras picked again up in fall 2024, whereas Lydia, 21, and Issac Plath have been comfortable in recent relationships.
Micah Plath, in the meantime, revealed he had “stress” with girlfriend Veronica Peters after she and Moriah, 22, skilled a falling out between seasons.
Whereas Isaac, 19, stated he was “in love” with girlfriend Kaylynn, it was Lydia's quick tempo with then-boyfriend Zac Wyse that fearful Ethan.
“What the f***? You meet a man for 3 months and also you inform me you're going to get married?” Ethan informed the cameras after studying that Zac had simply gotten their dad Barry Plath's blessing to suggest. “It doesn't make sense. Like, I get that he makes her comfortable, that's apparent. However it's fairly fast.”
Ethan, who was knowledgeable in regards to the relationship replace the identical day he was formally launched to Zac, was bowled over by the quick tempo of the romance.
“I feel we kinda dropped a bomb on him,” Lydia confessed, referring to her older brother's response. “I don't know if I need to know what he's pondering.”
As Ethan stood within the household kitchen, the couple revealed that they already set a date for his or her impending nuptials, simply three months from that night time. “A shotgun marriage ceremony?” Ethan jokingly stated, earlier than acknowledging that the timeframe was “so rattling fast.”
Lydia, nonetheless, wasn't fazed by her brother's uneasiness over her timeline. In actual fact, Lydia didn't perceive what Ethan was insinuating together with his “shotgun marriage ceremony” remark.
“A shotgun marriage ceremony is when normally the household insists that they get married, so that they maintain them at gunpoint until they get married,” Lydia defined to Zac, earlier than the producers informed her that wasn't the right definition.
Welcome to Plathville star Lydia Plath simply stated “I do.” The truth TV character tied the knot along with her fiancé, Zac Wyse, on Saturday, February 2022. “The Wyse household, Est. 2~22~25❤️💍,” Lydia captioned images from the couple's nuptials, which have been held on her household's Georgia farm, through Instagram. Lydia, 21, embraced her bridal magnificence in […]
The actual which means of a “shotgun marriage ceremony” implies a rushed marriage ceremony “based mostly on being pregnant,” however Lydia didn't purchase it. “So, you're not pondering of an precise shotgun on the marriage ceremony? Effectively, that's what I'm pondering of,” she confessed.
After the bombshell was dropped on Ethan, and he realized extra about Zac assembly Lydia at a church in Colorado in August 2024, he nonetheless wasn't satisfied about Zac coming into the household.
“What the hell is happening?” Ethan requested throughout a confessional after watching Zac and Lydia laughing and getting giddy within the kitchen whereas Barry rooted them on enthusiastically.
Ethan joked, “My dad looks as if somebody slipped one thing in his kombucha,” earlier than mentioning, “I didn't even know I used to be assembly this man tonight.” (Ethan was one of many final two siblings to satisfy Zac previous to him proposing in December 2024.)
Though Ethan famous that Lydia “appears very, very comfortable,” he admitted, “It's protected to say that is positively not anyone I pictured Lydia with.”
Ethan ultimately confessed, “I assume the one factor that I've hesitation of is, I feel he's homosexual.”
Regardless of Ethan's hesitations, each Lydia and Barry have been completely on board with a quick marriage ceremony. Barry revealed through the episode that when he spoke with God about Lydia and Zac's relationship, he had “peace” and gave Zac his blessing immediately.
Lydia, in the meantime, knew inside weeks of assembly Zac on a visit to Colorado that he was The One. “Zac and I had solely been relationship for 16 days once we each knew that we had discovered our eternally,” she informed the cameras. “I imply, there have been so many simply Godwinks you can name them, or issues that, like, we couldn't have orchestrated that was from the Lord and we each knew it.”
Lydia and Zac tied the knot in February with seven of her eight siblings in attendance, together with Ethan.
Welcome to Plathville airs on TLC Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET.
