[Emma] Previously on "7 Little Johnstons."
This is the only dress that I smiled in.
I love it a lot.
-So how long to order? -12 to 16 weeks.
Well, that leaves us barely a month to alter.
Better late than never.
[Amber] I am definitely worried for Liz.
That is just too tight of a turnaround.
-These pants. -[Ashley] Your bellbottoms.
-[Emma] Yeah. -Are we gonna find a boy this year?
Well, yeah, I know that.
[Emma] Ashley and Jonah, Alex and Allie, and Mom and Dad
all met at the Little People's Conference.
Word of advice, it'll happen when you least expect it.
Be your first convention, so you get to kinda see
a world like ours.
How do you think Leighton's gonna do on this trip?
She does great when we're traveling, but her sleeping
on me now, since she's so long, I'm not gonna be able to get
down in the airplane seat and hold her like this,
'cause, oh, my God, my back would be...
[Leighton cries]
[Brice] Yay!
[Amber] We haven't even boarded, and Leighton's already crying,
so this is probably gonna be
a very long plane ride for everyone.
♪ Are you ready For a good time ♪
♪ So fresh catching this fire ♪
We've been on the flight for three hours now to San Diego.
♪ Count me in like One, two, three, four ♪
[Liz] The flight to San Diego was pretty good.
Leighton slept a little bit, but overall,
her temperament and demeanor was awesome.
She played, she ate a lot. It was a very easy flight.
So we have officially arrived in San Diego, and we're all
pretty pumped and excited for this year's conference.
♪ Hi, ya, ya, ya ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
♪ Hi, ya, ya, ya ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
-Hi! -[Dacey] Hey, guys.
-[Zac] Hello. -[Liz] How are you?
[Dacey] Good, how are you? It's been way too long.
I know.
We're at a winery to get a taste of some wines,
possibly for our wedding.
And also, I will be asking Dacey and Carol
to be my bridesmaids.
[Carol] Gosh, it's been since Leighton's birthday since
we've seen each other, time flies.
The last time I saw you guys was Austin.
-I was pregnant. -[Zac] Oh, yeah.
So you get to see Leighton, yeah.
Jonah was like, "You're not pregnant this time, right?"
And I said, "No, no, Jonah, no."
Now, maybe next time.
[Daniel] Welcome in.
How familiar are we in the wine world,
if you don't mind me asking? -She's probably the best person to know.
I only know Stella Rosa and Barefoot.
No worries. It still counts as wine.
Don't worry about it.
My knowledge about wine is that it's old and made out
of grapes, and it looks fancy when you twirl it.
My wine tasting came from the college Carol,
living off the college dorm budget and hitting up the deals
every week for wine.
I'm not gonna lie, we're more like beer people.
We are clueless to wine knowledge.
I know wine as much as Carol has brought wine to my house,
and that's about it for me.
We'll go with what you think we should start off with.
-Yeah, cool. -And then we'll kinda grow from that.
Yeah, first bottle there, it's going to be something
really light and refreshing.
There's still a decent amount of acidity in there.
This is a Chardonnay,
and I'll get a little dump bucket for you.
If it's not for you, we won't be offended,
or if you're looking forward to that next pour.
Smells good.
[Daniel] As you age it, it's gonna be turning some of that acidity
into a little bit of a butteriness.
I don't know, I'm sorry.
[Brice] It's not terrible.
[Liz] Yeah.
I gotta make sure I don't like it.
[bleep], I'll go ahead and drink it.
No! Oh, my God, I'm not gonna be able to carry you to the car.
He was throwing them back, and I was like,
"Sip, sip, dump the bucket. Sip, sip, dump the bucket."
He was like, "I'm gonna finish it."
[Brice] That's just me.
If we try something, I wanna finish it.
I just don't wanna throw it away.
-[Liz] Cheers. -[Brice] Cheers.
[Daniel] With this one, you have pét nat.
So there's a lot of small bubbles.
It'll seem creamy.
[Brice] It's better than the first one.
[Daniel] Enjoy this wine.
I'll be back whenever you're ready for the next one, OK?
-Thank you. -Yeah, you're welcome.
So I wanna hear all about the engagement.
[Liz] OK.
I wanna see engagement pictures.
[Carol] I love that. Look at Bryce's face.
You can tell he loves it.
Since we're having our wedding in our backyard, I was like,
"Oh, let's do it near the river."
The river was where a lot of our dating life was.
[Liz] Yes.
How'd you know she was the catch?
What's your favorite candy? Have you ever been arrested?
How many kids you want? Are you gonna marry her?
-[Liz] Carol. -[Dacey] You made Liz blush.
Those were fun ones he wanted to do, but our real ones.
Well, that's adorable. That is so fun.
They were both very cute.
I think it shows both of their fun sides
and their sweet sides.
[Carol] Yeah, I'm all about the camo and the hunting.
Like, I -- it matches their vibe.
If we'd have done pictures based off our vibe,
it'd have been in a McDonald's drive thru,
like sharing a number seven meal.
So I think their photos really match their personality,
especially as a couple.
Have y'all set a date or?
[Liz] We have -- November 8th.
Four months away.
We're doing it in Mom and Dad's backyard,
'cause it's gonna be under 100 people.
The backyard wedding? It can be really pretty.
Yeah. Speaking of weddings...
I am super excited, I'm excited to be asking Carol and Dacey
to be my bridesmaids, and I cannot wait to see
what they have to say.
I would love for you guys to be my bridesmaids!
♪ You're rising higher ♪
♪ Lit the place on fire ♪
♪ It's a whole new day ♪
♪ It's down to the wire ♪
Hey, guys. Got some gloves for everybody.
[Alex] Oh, yeah. They all go on your left hand.
They're gigantic, but it'll keep
the birds' talons off your arms.
It's fun to explore the city that you're in each year.
So we found a falconry exhibit and decided to go see
what this is about.
Guys, welcome to Total Raptor Experience.
Our whole purpose is to share wild animals with you guys,
let you observe them and interact with them.
This is Ali.
She is a four-year-old female Atlanta falcon.
And these guys are raptors.
Raptors are these oddities of nature that hunt
with their back feet, like hawks and owls
and eagles and falcons.
They've got these really sharp, crazy talons
on their back feet.
And that's all about grabbing the prey.
So we'll have Ali hang out with you guys
on your gloves.
You know, waiting for the bird to hopefully stick the landing
on your arm and nowhere else on your body,
because we have been informed about the talons
that they have.
Hopefully it lands on the glove and not our arms.
So here's one of our hawk ambassadors.
So, what we're gonna do is have you guys be some
friendly saguaro cactus.
[Dave] Point your gloves straight at the bird.
Incoming!
[hawk screams]
[Andrea] That whole time he was flying sideways.
[Dave] Yeah, when they're going downwind, they gotta fly
like a helicopter and beat their wings really hard just
to stay up.
[Jonah] It was pretty scary at first.
We don't have the longest arms, so when this bird lands
and we have our arms out,
it is closer to our face than the average
person that does this.
[Dave] You look like you're ready to go.
Point your glove straight at the bird.
And then you have to look at the bird's perspective, too.
Like, how often does this bird see little people?
It's probably like, "What in the hell...
have I signed up for?"
[Andrea] Morgan, right here, bud.
You're a good bird.
I, for one, have never worked with little people before,
but the fact that the folks today had relatively short arms
actually made it easier.
You want your arm in close to you anyway.
You know, it makes it much easier to hold the bird.
The bird's more comfortable 'cause it's nice and safe,
and I think it's actually an advantage.
This is what they do out in the desert.
They just go from cactus to cactus.
[Jonah] The funniest to watch the bird land on is probably Ashley.
She ducks kinda like...
-You're a good bird. -[Allie] Ashley!
Ashley's face, she was like...
[gasps]
...very scared.
I mean, it comes at you, and you kinda jerk.
But I mean, it wasn't, like, abrasive or anything.
It didn't, like, hurt.
So will you be my bridesmaids?
It would be an honor to stand by your side.
-Yes, I say, "Yes." -Yes.
[Liz] She -- she said yes.
We say yes to being bridesmaids.
[Carol] We've been Elizabeth's closest friends for a while.
We've always talked about marriage and kids.
So it's like a small part of us that knew it was coming.
And just being able to stand up there beside someone
you care that much about on the biggest day of their life
is just, it's so cool to see.
Brice, if you could have one thing at the wedding,
what would you want?
Well, I was really looking forward to dancing
with my daughter, that was. -[Zac] Oh.
Oh, yes. Yeah, not me.
-Of course you, but on a... -I'm just...
Brice, you didn't tell me you had some dancing issues.
[bleep], I gotta have nine drinks in me before I do that.
That's why we're having an open bar.
-So I have our next pour. -Oh, wow.
This is gonna be another natural wine.
It's gonna be something that is not filtered.
They don't add any yeast
to start the fermentation process.
It was cool to hear about how they made their wines.
It's gonna be something that's a little bit more balanced.
You're not gonna have anything that's, like,
really dry or overwhelming on there.
It's fruit-forward, you know?
You get more like fresh fruits, like berries.
That's gonna give you some aroma there.
-It's nice to learn... -Follow-up question.
...stuff like that. What?
Describe me one of the wines and his exact words of
how he told you where the wine was made from and how.
-I couldn't tell you that. -[Liz] Please.
Big bubbles are gonna be a little bit more metallic...
A decent amount of acidity...
As far as just being oaked...
Very little-to-no sulfites...
Fermenting the wine, the color that's imposed
by the grapes.
-[Liz] What? -I was listening to him,
and it was cool. -Then tell me.
I can't tell you.
-Exactly. -But it was neat.
You were too buzzed.
-You good? -No, I don't.
Babe, we still got more to go.
I'm just gonna get, like, get a little bit.
[Zac] You like that one a lot.
-So Emma. -Yeah.
-Have you found a guy yet? -[Allie] Oh, yeah.
I thought you were supposed to help me.
-I -- I know -You haven't.
I was supposed to help you. I know.
Are you scoping?
-You found anybody? -I'm definitely scoping, yeah.
Is there anybody, like, on the radar?
-Nope. -No?
Nope.
I've been all over the place just saying hey to everyone.
We just gotta get past the friend-zone.
One year. We make a lot of friends.
-Yeah. -We gotta get to second base.
Elizabeth has no idea what the bases are.
Figuratively, her and Brice have ran them all.
-I'll help you tonight. -We'll see if you do.
First base in dating, I don't know...
First date?
Introducing to each other, talking.
First base is kissing.
Second base is touching and feeling.
Getting to second base is meeting the parents.
I guess doing it.
Marriage.
Third base is telling each other that we love each other.
It's more touching, a higher-level of touching.
And then home run, obviously, is sex.
Getting married.
[Liz] He's still innocent.
-I mean, was that close? -No.
Oh.
Look at where you wanna move to,
and then find a dude that lives there
in LPA. -Ooh.
-That's how you do it. -[Alex] Want that Cali boy?
Yeah, that's like too far.
[Jonah] Long distance is hard regardless.
Whether you're 200 miles or 5,000, I mean, a phone call
is a phone call, FaceTime's FaceTime.
-That's true. -Yeah.
Me and Ashley right now are only three and half hours.
-Three and a half -- yeah. -[Emma] That's not bad.
-Yeah. -Honestly, I would like
to get out of North Carolina.
-Yeah. -I think it would do me some good.
I don't wanna be so far from home, though, I mean.
-No. -[Emma] Well, you don't have to.
But two and a half hours, two hours.
My family is a big part of my life.
[Jonah] Yeah, Ashley finishes up school in December, so, you know,
those are things that we've thought about and are gonna
actually put into action, you know, after this year.
Whether Ashley and I live in North Carolina or Georgia
or somewhere else, we've worked so hard to get to this point
and maintain consistency and maintain a healthy
relationship away, and that alone is hard to do.
So when you get to the point where you have the privilege
to live with your significant other,
I won't take it for granted.
[Dave] Watch this.
This is Ali coming right at us right here.
-Up! -Oh, yeah.
[Andrea] Come on, kiddo!
[Dave] Alright, guys, here we go, up!
Ho!
Nice hit, sweetheart. Nice hit.
Did you see what she did?
She just knocked it out, let it fall, came back for it.
She killed her little prize, so.
[Ashley] I thought it was cool.
I can go back to my kids and be like,
"Hey, look, your teacher held a falcon,
let me give you some tips and some facts."
One more before we leave. What was that one?
I know you want to do a -- what would you -- a flush?
What did you say it was called?
-A flight. -A flight.
I'm gonna be flushed every time
I get all this.
[Daniel] We'll be ready for our next one.
[Carol] We'll do a flight and you pick?
-A whole flight? -Yeah.
Yeah.
[Liz] We'll go out with a bang.
-Mix it up. -Yeah, that'll --
that'll be five different pours there on that flight.
[Carol] I gotta keep it going, 'cause we got a party tonight.
Like, I've always wanted it.
I've -- this is my first, like, alcoholic flight.
I've always done the coffee flights.
When I hear flight, I'm like, "Oh, my God, I gotta do it."
♪ Off the wall, on the floor ♪
♪ Move 'till your body Can't move anymore ♪
♪ And let the champagne pour ♪
♪ Fill up your glasses ♪
[Brice] Oh, I got buzzed off that one.
Because we had, like, eight, nine different wines.
Yeah, and I was drinking the wine.
-Yeah. -That actually looks like beer.
[Carol] Oh, that's your type.
They're all starting to taste the same.
They really are.
At this point, I don't even know what I'm tasting anymore.
Not in a bad way, though, [indistinct].
Just my taste buds are, like, they're confused.
Babe, more, more.
-More? -Yeah, more for me.
Brice and I are gonna have to hold each other's hand
walking down the street. -Good God.
What are me and Zac gonna do?
Watch from afar.
[Dacey] I am so happy I got to watch Liz and Brice fall in love.
And they have a year 'till they get married, so hopefully
I will find a plus-one. -There you go.
There you go, come on, Dacey.
They have four months. I gotta get on it.
But that's not a year.
I'm good, thanks. Shoot, yeah, OK.
No, I didn't, I didn't.
So yeah, four months to find a plus-one.
Wish me luck!
♪ This is my moment My moment right here ♪
♪ Right here ♪
♪ All eyes on me as I make my premiere ♪
So we are three days into this conference,
and there has already been a whole lot going on between
workshops, dancing, partying.
So during these conferences, Amber and I try to slip off.
We need some downtime.
[Amber] If you're wanting to do conference every year,
I'll just send you,
'cause the kids are all adults.
In my mind, it's kind of like, I don't have to do it
for them anymore.
So I'll just do every few years.
The days of our entire family having to go
aren't really necessary. You know, they're all adults.
Back when they were 14, 15 years old,
we would always tell them, "Don't do stupid stuff
and don't leave the hotel without telling me."
Now they go off and do their own thing.
[Amber] So if they wanna go on their own, they're at the age
now where they can do it.
I think Alex and Allie are having a good time.
I think they are. They look like they are.
[Amber] Yeah.
So Alex and Allie, in the past, have had challenges navigating
long-distance relationships.
-[Allie] Bye. -[Alex] I love you.
[Allie] I love you.
[Amber] Oh, yeah, there's tears.
Navigating relationships, period, because for Alex
and Allie both, this is their first relationship.
I just got off the phone with Allie, and she said,
"We should focus on being friends."
We've just gotten mad
and snippy at each other for stupid reasons.
-And how are you feeling? -I'm a little upset,
just because I still love her.
But they have worked through those things, and they are
at a good place.
Always good to have a recipe in front of you
when you're cooking, just because
things move really fast,
and you don't wanna forget anything.
I want you to be working on the fish.
Today, we are making some fish tacos and some homemade salsa.
San Diego is known for, like, their seafood in general,
and I like seafood, so I'm looking forward to
this cooking class.
[Chef Perez] You wanna listen. You wanna smell.
You wanna use all your senses,
'cause that's what helps you with -- with the food, OK? -[Alex] OK.
[Chef Perez] Alright, so you like to cook?
Yes, I love cooking.
[Chef Perez] What's your favorite thing to cook?
Probably -- I don't know.
-What do I like? -Like, chili?
-[Allie] Yeah. -The Skyline Chili?
-[both] Yeah. -I heard of that place.
-I haven't been, though. -I love it there.
[Alex] Her favorite foods are, like, pastas.
She likes steaks.
She has not, like, a diverse palate,
but she's, like, open to trying new things.
We can go out and enjoy a meal together.
Just don't press too hard, 'cause you won't be able
to get it out, OK? -OK.
[Chef Perez] Alright, perfect.
-[Alex] Mm-hmm. -In, like, two weeks.
Yeah, it seems like a lot of fun from what you've told me
in the past, so... -[Allie] It's really fun, yeah.
So Allie's family always goes to this county fair
at the end of the summer where they show animals.
And this will be my first time joining their family.
It'll be bittersweet. It's -- it's my last fair.
Yeah, like, this is the -- this is the last time
you'll be showing pigs.
Yeah, I've been showing for 13 years.
Wow. That's crazy to think about.
So like, what showing a pig is, basically, is where,
like, Allie has to walk a pig around this arena.
So you kinda just have to show every angle of the pig
and make sure that one stands out versus the other ones
in the arena.
Are you wanting to show a pig?
-Maybe if you teach me a little bit beforehand... -I will.
Maybe I'll show some in the open class.
So I guess I can show a pig, but I really do not wanna
embarrass myself in front of Allie's whole family.
So are you nervous about the fair, if any?
[Allie] Yeah.
The pig's gonna be in a new environment
or a new space.
At fair, I'm afraid that they're gonna run
when I show them.
Have your other pigs done that before?
Hell, yeah.
I've always had at least one pig run.
[Amber] Alex, Emma, and I are gonna be heading to Ohio.
You know, when I'm up there, I'll probably talk to Karen
and Adam about what do they see the future for Allie
and kind of our thoughts on what we see in the future for Alex.
I don't see Allie coming down here to live.
[Amber] No.
Alex will be our first child to move out of state.
And of course, you know, we are worried,
especially being a little person, moving.
You do, as a parent, wanna make sure that
your kid's going to be accepted and comfortable
and know he is gonna be taken care of.
I will say, Alex loves life up there.
And what Alex is going to college for,
he can do anywhere. -Broadcasting, television.
There's so much television now in the farm market.
-[Amber] Farming. -It's -- it's crazy.
I know, it's on our TV quite frequently.
By the end of next year, I should be done
with all my college, my first four years of college.
I can get my masters at Ohio State
or something, and I would love to help out on the farm
like I did for Harvest. -Yeah, we would love that.
We could always use an extra set of hands.
You know, obviously, they've been dating
for a while, but they're going to have to navigate
a full-time relationship.
Trent and I had to do the same thing.
We were three years long-distance, and then
it became, like, all the time.
When you move in together and you share the same
bathroom, the same bed, the same toothpaste,
and somebody didn't wash the dishes out in the sink,
it's a different relationship that you're learning.
Alright, cheers.
Taco time.
[Alex] That's really good.
Overall, this cooking class went really well.
The fish tacos were a success,
but now I'm thinking about pigs.
Will I be able to successfully show one off at the fair?
[Amber] We've had a great week at conference,
but before we head home,
we are going to fit in one last event.
Alright, are you guys ready?
Here we go!
And just like that, your 30,000-pound bus
just became a boat.
We're in the water.
Oh, my God.
Look, Leighton, look at the water.
[Ashley] Oh, my gosh.
[Amber] How do they get up there?
Underwater, a sea lion can go about 35 miles an hour.
It's like just get going and they just drop right down.
[Jonah] So the boat tour, it's exciting.
I mean, we saw some sea lions, and those were cool to see.
[Kim] Right over there is a Navy dolphin in the water.
Any time an American warship stops in a foreign port,
there will be a Navy dolphin there to guard them.
[all] Oh!
We got to see dolphins.
They were jumping out of the water,
so we were lucky with that.
The tour guide was very knowledgeable,
and I think I know more now about San Diego
than I do my own town that I live in.
[Amber] Last night was fun.
Jonah and Josh did fantastic at the talent show.
-Yeah, that was really good. -Jonah's dancing.
[Jonah] Last night was our last night of conference,
and it was the talent show.
So I, along with a good friend of mine, Josh,
we decided to do a rendition of the Blues Brothers.
Unfortunately, cameras aren't allowed during the week
of conference, but people often film on their phones.
[crowd cheering]
I go to conferences to see friends and catch up,
and I think that's the biggest thing I look forward to
each year.
-She's played with lots of little kids. -I see, yeah.
-So cute, like, she goes up to little kids. -[Trent] She's interacted a lot.
-Yeah. -Yeah, that's good.
[Amber] Leighton enjoyed her first conference.
Leighton, obviously, it's the sightseeing,
doing different things around San Diego, Children's Museum,
really just a lot of walking and strolling with Leighton,
'cause she enjoys that.
[Trent] Brice, is this a good experience?
Never been to anything like this before.
And it was just cool to experience, get to see all
the different things they do at conference.
And, you know, seeing a lot of her friends, and I did get
to do some fishing, and it was...
super fun to catch fish off the West Coast.
Oh, look!
So San Diego has been fun, but knowing that we have to get
home to wedding planning is exhausting.
Wedding planning is big stress.
-[Liz] Brice. -[Brice] Yeah?
[Liz] We got our save the dates in, but apparently I ordered
a puzzle piece.
So I'm gonna show you how we're gonna do this, OK?
You gotta get your multitasking skills.
Stick the save the date in, take our initials...
put it in the middle, flip it, and put our return address
in the top-left corner, done.
Now that we're home from conference, it is time
for us to get into wedding planning mode.
Since we're less than four months away, the people
that we I wanna be a part of her wedding is
really our family.
And we are planning to have the wedding
in my parents' backyard.
Don't bend it up.
Be gentle.
Yeah.
[Brice] Are we doing all these?
At least let's just get through this stack.
Good lord.
If Brice does a great job with the save the dates, he may run
the bases, or he can just sit out in the dugout.
'Cause that's how life has been lately for us, though.
Sitting in the dugout's lame.
We have a kid, and we're -- we're busy.
You even said, "Just wait to do it on our wedding night."
I said, "OK," so guess what? We benched for a while.
Don't you think they look pretty, by the way?
Why didn't you choose the hunter-fishing photos?
[Liz] 'Cause these are our save the dates, and I'll save
those pictures for our wedding website.
Look, you see, I am sticking with the hunting, hunter men.
You see the background? It's the woods.
We're getting married outside the place where you hunt.
And you should be happy November's one of your favorite
months out of the year.
So the inspiration that I have for this wedding is pretty much
just a fall outdoor wedding.
Luckily, our trees will be changing colors, so the trees
will give us that natural orange and yellowy vibe to add
to the fall weather.
And I said, "Have fun with the flower colors"
since the bridesmaids and the groomsmen will be
on the darker side of the colors.
And I said, "Just make it,
you know, like a fun outdoor but beautiful wedding."
I like whatever Elizabeth likes.
Tomorrow is a big day for us
because we get to meet with Julie.
And remember, Julie did Leighton's birthday party
and the baby shower.
She'll be doing all the flowers and stuff for ours.
Leighton's birth month flower is in our flowers
for the wedding, so she has some significance.
Here are some of the ideas that...
she showed as far as, like, our tent.
This is the mock-up.
That's what she's gonna go over us with tomorrow,
of how she'll have everything down in the field.
[Brice] That looks good.
So tomorrow, we will be walking through
with our wedding planner
and also my parents to see if we can bring
my wedding vision that I sent to the wedding planner to life
in the backyard.
So bridesmaids' dresses have been ordered since all
my bridesmaids were asked.
And so those dresses are supposed to get
here September 9th.
So that way, I can get girls altered.
We got to get you scheduled
for picking out your style of suit.
-Is camouflage...? -[Liz] No.
-Good color to use? -[Liz] No.
[Jonah] I don't know any wedding dress code that includes camo attire,
but with Elizabeth dating Brice, it should not be
as shocking if he proposes that idea.
He married somebody. He had a kid with somebody.
If camo's the deal-breaker now,
y'all did a lot of things wrong.
I just know to tell you to do brown or black.
Brown and black, 'cause the girls' dresses
are brown. -What's gonna be brown?
[Liz] Your belt, your shoes, your tie, your, um...
-My tie's gonna be brown? -[Liz] Yep.
-Would that look good with black? -[Liz] Not black.
Uh-huh, it does. That picture that I showed you.
Pull up your phone, brown tie, brown belt, brown shoes,
it all comes together. -[Brice] I guess I don't look too --
So I wanna make Liz happy, but I wanna find a way
to bring some camouflage in this wedding.
[Liz] And then and once everybody gets all their clothes
and stuff, it's just the whole altering phase.
The timing is definitely the hardest part about this
whole wedding thing, how, like, when you buy something,
it takes this many weeks.
That's been, I feel like, the biggest struggle so far.
-Yeah. -[Liz] 'Cause I did it.
It was June when I went dress shopping.
And the dress won't be here until towards
the end of September. -Mm-hmm,
Yeah, I'll have maybe five weeks to get the dress altered
and pray that they do it absolutely correct.
Yeah.
[Liz] It's a little nerve-wracking waiting on this dress,
'cause I want our seamstress
to take her time with this dress.
I don't want her to feel rushed, and then accidents
happen to the dress.
We have to whack off a lot of it and keep all
of the designs with it.
Can I get married to you in this?
That would be awful.
We have a beautiful wedding, and then I show up
in something like this.
You need to start practicing your vows, though,
to help you become more comfortable speaking it.
Still nervous about the whole thing?
You vote for us to do our own vows.
Well, I figured it'd make you more happier and...
No, see, and that's the thing. You're focusing it more on me.
-It's about us. -[Brice] And no...
And I figured it'd make it more valuable to our wedding.
More valuable?
-More... -[Liz] I can't wait to hear your vows.
More entertaining, more...
-That's better. -[Brice] More...
"Intimate" is the word.
With Brice wanting to write his own vows,
I think it makes it a more personal wedding ceremony.
That's what he wants.
He's definitely gonna mention hunting and fishing.
I have a feeling it'll come up pretty often.
Oh, yeah.
It's time to get rocking and rolling,
since vacation's over.
-We still got a lot to do. -[Brice] Ugh.
♪ She don't slow down ♪
♪ No time to waste ♪
♪ Fire in her step ♪
♪ Gold in her veins ♪
-[doorbell ringing] -[Amber] Oh.
Oh!
[Trent] Miss Julie.
-[Liz] Hey! -[Julie] Hey!
-[Amber] Hey, hello! -How are you, darling?
-So good to see you! -[Liz] Good to see you too!
-[Julie] Wedding! -[Trent] We didn't get the memo to match.
-Y'all are, did y'all plan this? -[Trent] Even the shoes.
-[Amber and Elizabeth] No. -No?
[Trent] No, they didn't. But look at the shoes, too.
Oh, my goodness, you do match. I love it.
[Liz] I am my mother's daughter.
Obviously, we live in two different homes,
and we get dressed in two different houses,
it was not planned,
but it makes a great official wedding-planning outfit.
Liz is definitely like a mini mom.
I've gotten to mix up before. I was like, "Mom?"
And then it was Elizabeth. Like, "Oops."
-You're ready to plan? -[Amber] Walk down to the field?
Yeah, let's go see it.
-[Liz] Yeah, alright. -I've already told Brice
the best way to get through this...
Is to say, "Yes, whatever you want, honey."
...is to say, "It looks great. Oh, I think that's fabulous."
[Liz] So Julie and I have been having a lot of talks
with each other in regards to planning this wedding down
in my parents' field, and we've shared lots
of inspirations and stuff, but she wants to get
the real view and to start nailing down
where all of our big items will be.
So 'cause we did a little mock up of everything,
so tent here. -[Trent] How big of a tent?
It's a 66-by-43 sailcloth tent, which has, like,
the wood poles and is really pretty.
And so this, the --
the reception tent is gonna house people eating dinner.
It's where most of the people are gonna be for that night.
[Amber] And it's gonna house the dance floor,
and the DJ. -[Liz] Yeah.
This should be plenty of room.
This tree right here is probably my only concern.
So you see, that tree's getting ready to come down
for liability purposes. -[Julie] Yes.
Yes, but we probably need to go ahead and get rid of this tree.
[Trent] This is a beautiful oak, and that's a Sweetgum.
[Amber] Well, then take both of them out.
I guess a two-hour wedding is more important
than a 50-year-old tree.
So we have to take down definitely two trees.
But when you ask me, I'm like,
"Oh, gosh, we had dead trees down here..."
I have about four trees that need to come down.
So what I'm thinking, though, as far as like guests,
because we're gonna have golf carts to bring even like
the grandparents and stuff down, yeah.
Multi-passenger carts.
[Amber] This is where the golf carts can drop the people.
-[Julie] OK. -The bridal party off,
come out, and then head up...
that way, what do you think?
I think that would be good.
The distance from the house to the pavilion is about
250 yards, totals out to two and a half football fields.
The field itself is two and a half acres.
That's maybe one football field?
[Amber] So we have the space to host Elizabeth and Brice's wedding.
However, we're gonna have to bring in a lot of added
equipment to make this dream wedding for Elizabeth
and host 70-plus guests.
I think we had planned to have
a little bit of a seating area maybe?
[Liz] Yeah, around the fire pit.
[Trent] I've always wanted to have flagstones done
around the pavilion. So that's gonna look...
literally 100 times nicer. -[Julie] That'll be great.
And then our bar is a custom bar,
which I'm really excited about. -[Liz] I am too.
It's gonna go around the tent pole.
-That'll be nice. -[Julie] Yes, yes, yes.
It's a 360 bar to help with space.
Well, to help the space yeah.
And we have like a multi-height bar too.
-Nice. -[Julie] Yeah.
I always wanna make sure I have options for everybody
because even though it is an LP wedding, there's still,
you know, normal-height people there.
So I wanna make sure I have things at different heights,
but it all still has the same flow.
Definitely don't want anything, a bar-height stool,
or anything that's gonna be uncomfortable.
You don't wanna see anybody in a formal dress trying
to climb a big chair.
So we're gonna make sure we have something for everyone.
The actual ceremony is going to be where you see
that little hill.
[Liz] Come on, Dad, let's practice.
-You have to walk slow. -Not me and Elizabeth.
-Slow, slow! -To music.
-Slow. -And, Dad, I'm, like, kinda bending my back.
I might have to wear flats for him.
Little people, well,
specifically achondroplasia, having short arms and them both
being very broad-shouldered and teeter-tottering.
A little bit we walk with a sway.
Yeah.
-Dad, I cannot be like that. -Slow, slow.
You gotta be under.
Dad's like, "We can hold hands,"
I'm like, "I cannot hold hands with my father
walking down the aisle." That's what we cannot do.
Dad and I are gonna have to, you know, do some more practice
walking down our aisle.
-I feel like we're such like Humpty Dumpty. -So alright, pause.
Where's the very back row of seating gonna be?
-Where is your arches gonna be? -On top of the hill.
-On top of the hill, OK, so... -Oh.
Really?
I thought you were building a platform?
I really don't know if this just plays into my dad's brain stuff
or if it's just, you know, my dad being my dad,
but when he had this conversation about putting
the platform and the arches on the hill, I was like,
"No, I remember you telling me that you just want to build
"a platform to put the arches on, never about we're gonna
"set it on the hill and I'm about to hike up in a dress
up the hill."
Daddy, you said platform.
So you're walking through the arches?
No, you're not walking through the arches.
-No, daddy, you're the one that said this right there. -[Julie] Platform, arches...
-Dad, not Daddy. -Well, Dad.
Remember, you said you were gonna do a platform
and that you were just using this hill
to make your focal point for the arches.
OK, so just the arches are gonna be on the hill.
No, dad, dad, dad.
Nothing's on the hill.
Shh, shh, y'all making this too confusing.
[Amber] We are talking through the wedding plan, and it is
clear that there is confusion with Trent.
If he wants it to be a certain way,
that's when he is gonna be tunneled.
Or maybe I was left out of the last 72 text messages
or planning of where things were going? -No.
You're not left out.
Maybe you didn't listen or pay attention.
So this flat spot right here is where you're gonna
wanna put it. -Look at me.
Don't, we ain't going backwards.
You gotta look at the center of this.
This is where everybody's going --
I don't like the way you're being.
-[Liz] Come on, Dad. -I'm not being anything.
-This is what [indistinct]. -[Liz] Dad, I'm literally just
telling you our conversation we had before. -No.
There's a lot of confusion,
a lot of back-and-forth from the peanut gallery.
Somebody just needs to take the lead.
And at the end of the day,
if we're not using the top of this hill for the ceremony,
why are we in this location?
It is the most unlevel piece of ground
in this three-acre field.
[Liz] So we're at my parents' house on their property.
And we're doing a walkthrough
with our wedding planner, Julie.
And there's still some confusion
where everything's gonna be placed.
And that confusion comes from Trent Johnston.
Go show me where you want the arches gonna be.
I remember you saying you just wanted to use this
for the focal point.
Platform, big triangle, two little triangles.
And then she decorates it awesome with flowers.
[Trent] OK.
[Julie] So we know we're doing a platform.
Anything that could create a trip hazard we wanna avoid.
That big slump right there needs to get filled in.
We have a hole here and a hole here that has to get filled in.
[Julie] Definitely, yeah.
Flat ground, as we can do, is gonna be best.
So really, the platform, like, low.
-Like, lower than the graduation one. -[Julie] You know.
Two by four, four inches.
Yeah, four inches I think is good.
[Amber] At the most.
When Elizabeth and Brice decided to get married
in the field, Elizabeth and I looked at wedding arches.
And we have chosen one Elizabeth likes.
However, I had have not planned on building a platform.
We talked about it.
All of the needs is falling back on dad.
And we -- the deadline cannot be pushed.
It does -- is -- it is not changing, so it's do or die.
You got some things to do. You got a list.
-Right? -[Liz] He always does.
Just send me a text.
OK, you want me to send this text to you?
-[Trent] If you want to. -OK, Trent's daddy do list.
[Amber] Yes.
So trees, wedding arches, platforms, flagstones, holes.
And I have a pile of dirt right here.
So I guess if I do like two wheelbarrows a day
from now until November, I might get it done.
[Julie] So Brice, how do you feel about it?
I'm just going with whatever, honestly.
Wise man. Wise man.
-Yeah. -[Julie] I love it.
[Amber] The truth is November 8th is deer hunting season.
Oh, yeah.
And this is where they normally deer hunt.
Oh, that's shot for the season.
-[Amber] So it's shot, yeah. -Yeah.
I'm glad that I was here for the walk around, just
so I can get an idea, because...
I wouldn't wanna be clueless when that wedding comes.
But just standing out here, looking at the river
right beside us, it's like,
"Dang, you know, I could be fishing here too,"
but it's more important to always make the wife --
fiancée happy.
You see this great big tree right here
with the low branches? -[Julie] OK, yeah.
Yeah.
If Brice put his deer stand up there,
and while everybody comes down
the aisle, Brice's like, "Oh, shoot,"
and he comes out of the stand and walks over
to the wedding party.
Everyone that's gonna be here, they know this guy.
They know he lives for his family
and then hunting and fishing.
Some of that might not be in the right order, but.
-His tux jacket could be real tree camo. -[Julie] You are!
-And then when he gets up there... -No.
-And reverse it! -He takes it off...
-Yes! -...turns it inside out.
[Trent] And puts it on, and he stands there.
I mean, people would love it.
[Liz] I need him to be focused.
And I don't need him breaking his neck coming out
of a deer stand.
Oh, super careful coming down.
-No, we're not doing it. -It's such a good idea.
No.
[Trent] Where will your kitchen tent be?
-Over here? -[Amber] Yeah.
Yeah, we're probably gonna put that right here.
Well, oh, so now we do have an issue because Amy is not
gonna let me have a bathroom near her food, so.
[Trent] I thought about the bathroom being in that cutout.
Those tools and all that stuff will not be there.
[Julie] Hold on, let me add another thing to your list, Trent.
[Amber] Move tools.
So we are excited about this wedding.
However, we are realizing that wedding planning is crazy
and that this, what we thought was a small intimate wedding,
is a lot bigger than we thought it was gonna be.
You gotta have power.
You gotta have power back there.
We have water down here, right?
It is the true realization that this is gonna be a lot
in order to transform the field into a wedding venue.
And a lot of these things that need to get done are physical
things that need to be constructed, built.
Which obviously cost a lot of money.
It can become overwhelming.
[Trent] I say we walk back up to the house because the longer
we stay down here, the longer dad's list gets.
We're ready.
[Amber] The list is only gonna get longer.
Next time on "7 Little Johnstons."
This weekend, me and my mom are all visiting my girlfriend
Allie in Ohio.
And tap on it, like, by its shoulders.
Allie is gonna teach me how to show my first pig
at the county fair.
I am the only LP,
'cause it's not easy as it looks.
[stranger speaking]
[Alex] Going to the fair, I kind of expected,
like, people to stare at us, take pictures of us,
and, like, whisper about us.
Like, that's just to be expected whenever we go
into a big outing like that.
[Trent] We should be able to enjoy a carnival just like
everyone else, but we can't.
I don't feel safe.
-[Amber] Yeah. -I hate it over here.
-[Amber] Hi, dear. -[Trent] Welcome home.
Proposal came in for Elizabeth's wedding.
[Trent] I gotta sit down for this one.
It's a lot more than what we will be able to do.
If we could talk to Elizabeth and Brice and see who could
at least cut 35% and it not completely change
the look of the wedding.
This is a lot to have to cut from the wedding budget.
And hopefully, you know, Elizabeth doesn't freak out.