Mary Kate McEachern and her husband John Luke Robertson from "Duck Dynasty" have been quite busy following their wedding and honeymoon. But now that the dust has settled, the "Little Duck Wife" has found time to share some intimate details about their wedding, which she called "the absolute best day of my life."
"No other day can even stand a chance next to June 27, 2015. Everyone was telling me the day would fly by and all I would be able to remember was a blur...like such a whirlwind that John Luke and I would just look at each other when it was over and be like 'WOW.' But it's so crazy, because it wasn't like that for either one of us," she wrote on her blog.
One of her biggest concerns that day was that there was an 80 percent chance of rain. Given that both their wedding and reception will be held outdoors, and their 700 to 800 guests would be transported via buses, the weather was definitely a cause for concern.
"But honestly I never really freaked out," she shared. "Nobody did, and I think it's because we knew God was in control of it, so rain or shine we were going to make the best of it. But to try and make it work the best we could, we talked to the wedding planner and came to a decision to bump the wedding back an hour, from 6 to 7."
However, as the wedding date drew nearer, the chance of rain just kept going up, and for several days straight, rain was falling all day. Mary Kate was growing more and more concerned, but her father kept assuring her that the rains would definitely stop on the day of her wedding.
"So Saturday morning I woke up and went and sat on the front porch with my parents. As we sat there and talked, a rainbow appeared in the sky and I knew in that moment God had us. He was in control of whether it rained or not, so regardless of what happened the wedding was going to be awesome!" she said.
There is a custom for brides and grooms not to see each other at least a day prior to their wedding, but Mary Kate and John Luke didn't believe in that, so they still shared a moment together before the ceremony proper. There were several reasons why they did this, Mary Kate revealed. But the most important reason, she said, was that it allowed them to be a little more at ease before and during the wedding.
"Having a first look was something I am really glad we did. It allowed us to have some time together to just focus on each other and enjoy each other without the pressure of having so many other eyes on us. We sat on a couch under a tree and it was just lovely," she said.
John Luke married Mary Kate at his family's farm in West Monroe, Louisiana. The young couple flew to Australia shortly after the wedding to enjoy their honeymoon.
