[Trent] Previously on "7 Little Johnstons."
[Alex] This weekend, we are all visiting my girlfriend,
Allie, in Ohio.
-[Adam] You got the goat? -[Emma] Yeah!
[Amber] You have to be in control.
[Emma] I'm trying to control it!
So bridesmaids' dresses have been ordered, but we gotta get
you scheduled for picking out your style of suit.
-Is camouflage in? -[Elizabeth] No.
-Good color to use? -[Elizabeth] No.
So I wanna make Liz happy, but I wanna find a way
to bring some camouflage in this wedding.
The 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.
We need to sit down with Elizabeth and Brice
and, you know, see what we can cut.
And hopefully, you know, Elizabeth doesn't freak out.
♪ I'm stacking papers ♪
♪ Living the dream in the big city ♪
Hello.
We recently got the wedding budget and it is a lot.
It is a lot of money.
And we need to cut this by at least 30%.
So it's important for us to sit down with Elizabeth,
talk about it, um, pump the brakes,
and see what we can do to make some
adjustments, some changes,
and cut back...
a lot of money.
-[Amber] So we have to... -[Trent and Amber] Discuss.
-Wedding proposal slash... -[Elizabeth] Money.
[Amber] The wedding proposal came in.
We've looked at it and we've looked at it all over.
-[Elizabeth] It looks like it's a lot. -It is.
When you get to that final number at the back, it is.
The final number at the back is not doable.
[Elizabeth] Yeah, no.
-[Trent] How much is it? -[Elizabeth] Let Brice look at it, too.
That's more than a down payment.
I don't know if he wants to look at it.
My eyes will probably drop down.
I was in no-go when I saw that price.
I was like, "No, we gotta drop that down, like right now."
That doesn't include the wedding dress, the tuxes.
Not even food.
[Brice] That's definitely gonna have to be adjusted.
[Elizabeth] Wow, weddings are really this expensive?
I was just amazed because it's like just
a backyard wedding.
We just wanted to add some flowers and, of course,
the chair rentals. And yeah, I was pretty shocked.
Clearly, Mom and Dad and you two were gonna be...
footing the bill for the majority of this.
Yeah.
[Trent] But no matter if we had five different...
families contributing to this, it still doesn't make sense
at that number.
This wedding quote, it came in right at $55,000.
And I look at it as, like, that's a lot of money
for four or five hours.
So we need to trim back at least, like, $20,000,
$25,000.
Here's what I found to be the two most important things.
[Elizabeth] Uh-huh.
The ceremony and the dinner.
Wherever you guys can make adjustments for,
like, the seating around the fire pit.
-[Elizabeth] Yeah. -I'm not saying take things.
Don't take it away. Cut back.
Seating around fire pits, cocktail hour.
Things like that, that's -- that's -- start making adjustments there.
So the most expensive thing, obviously, is gonna be, like,
the tent, the chair, and the table rentals.
But there were some of these floral arrangements that were
just over $2,000, $3,000 in that ballpark.
And Brice and I, we really don't need
that many flowers. So really,
it's like we ultimately just
have to tone down all the decorative items.
Only the four of us know about that list.
So all your guests, none of them will know what's been cut
from the wedding. -Exactly.
[Trent] They only know what they see.
It's not like I'm having to get everybody's approval.
It's whoever's fit in the budget.
Well, but you do always wanna have
good food, your dress... -[Elizabeth] Mm-hmm.
-Looks good on you. -Which we've nailed that, so.
Wedding planning, you know, was stressful.
But now it's really stressful since we are having
to reconsider the budget and definitely cut back on
some of the things that we want for our wedding.
Alright, so we know. You know what we have to do?
-You finish going through that list. -[Elizabeth] Yeah.
[Trent] Whether it's you and Brice or you and Mom, trim it up.
If you need to borrow a weed eater,
I'll loan you a weed eater. You gotta trim that thing up.
And we still have to go tux shopping.
I also have to design a groom's cake for Brice.
But you know, in the back of my vine,
I'm just worrying about the budget.
♪ Move for me ♪
♪ Oh, oh ♪
♪ Gonna last ♪
♪ Feeling so free taking over me in time ♪
-[Jonah] Wow. -It's warmer back here.
[Bryan] A little bit, yeah.
Yeah, our studio in the summer can get upwards
of 130 degrees in here.
The wedding planning is definitely creating some stress
to our lives.
So it's good to take some time for some creative,
fun, you know, activities with the family
that we can all enjoy.
[Bryan] We're gonna make a couple of drinking glasses,
like these ones, the stemless wine glass shape,
and then the whiskey glass shape.
So there's all different ways to work with glass, too,
to make, like, smaller objects like pendants, jewelry,
things like that.
Emma has an online jewelry business
where she makes, primarily, earrings.
[Emma] I've been doing it for, I think, five years now.
And I might be interested
in putting glassblowing in my business.
I can maybe see if I can make an earring
out of it or something.
[Bryan] Do you wanna stand right here for me in front of that
cool breezing fan? Nice and toasty.
Right now in our home, there is a lot of focus
on Elizabeth and the wedding.
But it's also important for me to remember that we still have
Jonah, Alex, and Emma that have everyday activities
and interests and make sure all of their activities or academic
needs and things are addressed and they're just included
in the family and not everybody's
just absorbed in a wedding.
-Oh, you got mom helping? -Yes.
Alright, that's it, you're gonna hold it --
if you hold it up here a little bit, it'll be easier.
Bring it up underneath.
[Amber] A few challenges right off the top.
One was being able to reach the wooden ladle.
-[Trent] Teamwork. -[Bryan] Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
[Amber] It's a little-people thing.
So you know, a lot of people say, "Oh, well, I'm short too."
Well, the difference is, is that we have
an average-size torso.
Our arms and our legs are short.
Therefore, our reach is short.
The other thing that was challenging is when you have
to take the long tongs, the really long ones,
and work your glass, the mouth of your glass
when you're having to widen it.
You're gonna lean out a little bit.
We're gonna try to get these...
[Trent] Come on, Emma. You can do it.
-We're gonna go down. -[Jonah] Yeah.
There again, arm reach is very short.
These tongs are very long. Don't wanna burn yourself.
But Jonah was like, held it, I'm standing up.
Jonah's arms do not straighten out at --
I mean, they're very constricted.
So he knew he was gonna have to stand up.
[Bryan] One more.
Nice.
That's our little maker's mark.
That's how we know it's handmade.
Yeah.
30 seconds of him demonstrating, I'm like,
"Oh, we got -- this is good." I'm not saying the task is easy,
but we're all able to do it. Clear as day.
Grab the pipe.
We're gonna tap in the white and keep turning that.
Alright, let's bring it over to our glory hole over here.
And you're gonna rotate that.
[Trent] It's warm in here,
and it's because of these furnaces,
which one's actually called a "glory hole,"
which is totally inappropriate. That's -- that's, uh...
[Alex] Do you even know what that is, Emma?
He's -- the boy is asking the sister,
"Do you know what a glory hole is?"
[Alex] No, Dad, I know what you...
No, I'm saying...
[Trent] Of course you do. You have a smartphone.
I was meaning, like, if Emma knows what that is, probably not.
I do know what a glory hole is.
Let's hear it.
A glory hole can be pretty...
pervy.
A glory hole is the hole that you stick glass in to melt it.
And a glory hole can be... glory, glory, glory.
Or a glory hole could be...
[bleep]
Oh, God.
-Just past the inside? -[Bryan] Yep.
[Trent] You just stick the tip in.
[Bryan] Yeah, just the tip at this point.
[Trent] Today's the first time I've ever heard the word "glory hole."
And I think today's Emma's first time ever hearing
the word "glory hole."
You stick your pipe in the glory hole.
That's great.
Back towards you.
Awesome.
Alright, back in the water.
So glass blowing was fun, making the different
types of cups.
There we go.
-[Amber] Nice. -[Bryan] Looks good.
Yeah. Thank you.
And I have no clue how I'm gonna put this
in my business. Like, I don't see it yet.
[Bryan] We also do full -- full-time classes.
Like, if you really wanna dive into, like, learning
how to blow glass and get more hands-on,
we do things like that, both in the glass studio
and the ceramic studio.
I don't see Emma being a pro glass blower.
Like, I don't see her just sitting by that kiln every day
and getting all hot and sweaty and wearing, like,
all the proper clothing and all that.
I just don't see that in Emma's interests.
[Amber] Cool. Well, thank you so much.
-[Bryan] Yeah, thank you. -[Trent] Thank you, we enjoyed it.
[Amber] Yeah, for sure.
Cool.
You know, glassblowing was a lot of fun, and, you know,
you know, we learned some things,
definitely learned how hot it is.
[Trent] It's just great to take a break from wedding planning
for a moment, but tomorrow we'll be
right back at it.
Tux fitting, and all focused on wedding again.
-Thanks again, Brian. -[Bryan] Absolutely, thank you.
-Appreciate it. -[Bryan] Yeah.
Go outside and get some air conditioning.
[Emma] No, outside's hot, too.
♪ Hey, them country boys pulling up ♪
♪ Pulling up ♪
♪ With some big fat wheels on the truck ♪
♪ On the truck ♪
♪ And a pretty fine thang in the front ♪
♪ In the front ♪
-[Stephanie] Hi! -I brought all the guys.
-Yay! -[person #1] Yes!
This is Brice, my fiancé.
And then now, introduce your crew.
[Brice] With me today, I have my dad, Chuck,
my twin brother, Brett,
my older brother, Trey,
and Trent, Alex, Jonah, and myself.
There's not a lot of trust on how we're gonna pick out
tuxes today, so... -[Elizabeth] Yeah.
That's why you had to bring in the boss.
[Elizabeth] Yes.
Well, he wanted me to come, too.
Yeah, I think Elizabeth has strong opinions,
especially when the event has something to do with her,
yeah, her opinion becomes very serious.
I have an inspo pic, too, to show just to kinda help.
He has always liked the traditional
black-and-white tux.
But we do wanna just change, I guess, the accessories as far
as the tie, the belt, and the shoes,
and like the handkerchief
to bring in more of the fall colors.
But also for my crew,
y'all said that they would be able to rent.
And that is the first time
that we have heard that they can rent their suits to fit them. -Back in the prom days?
Yeah.
We all took the -- you take the pants leg
and stuff it all the way...
[Elizabeth] Up, to make it look...
Up, and then by the end of the night,
at the end of the prom, the pants leg was...
[laughing]
When it comes to suit shopping,
or in this case,
shopping and getting fitted for tuxedos,
we know what to expect.
We know going into this shop today that the tuxes are not
made to fit us and that we're -- we're looking
at having to have lots of alterations done.
[Elizabeth] So we are...
So we need to weigh out the difference between
if we can rent a tailored...to fit us
or if we're better off just making a purchase.
So you have the expert here.
Stephanie is gonna take great care of y'all.
-Who do you wanna start? -Um, you.
-We gotta start with you first. -[Stephanie] Yes.
-You're the big guy. -The groom.
[person #2] Can I get anybody anything to drink?
We have -- we have beer. We have mimosas.
-We have other beverages. -[Trent] You had me at beer.
-[person #2] Beer? -Yeah, sure.
-[person #2] Beer? -Yeah, thank you.
Beer.
I would say shopping with some beer could definitely help.
It would probably make me more motivated
to go clothes shopping.
[Trent] Good.
[Bryan] It's free and it's cold.
And with Elizabeth,
I would definitely probably need at least
five or six beers
for us to get along while we clothes shop.
[Stephanie] Just take a few measurements.
Once we look at the measurements,
you can actually put them on
and kinda see, like, the fit.
-[Brice] OK. -You know, we'll have ties, bow ties.
[Elizabeth] Brice, don't be nervous, you're fine.
-Yeah, I'm fine. -[Stephanie] You got this, you got this.
-[Trent] You look very handsome, Brice. -Thank you.
[Elizabeth] Brice seems happy, but he is horrible when it comes
to making decisions, and so that's why I'm here
to be the decision-maker.
Are you sure you want the brown tie and the brown shoes?
I think once you see it all come together, you'll be fine.
I think you're just having a hard time seeing it
until you actually put it on you, you'll be like, "OK."
[Brice] So whenever they were doing all the measurements
for my fittings, I was like,
"Gosh, you know, I'm really ready to get this over with."
I don't know, I just...
it's not really awkward. It's just like,
"OK, can we go to the next person?"
[Stephanie] What do you think, Liz?
[Elizabeth] It's nice.
I definitely think, do you really like the vest?
I'm very surprised that you're going with the vest.
[Brice] What, do you not like the vest?
It's up to you.
Up to you.
[Trent] I think it's a very classic look.
The -- I love the pants. I love the way the pants fit.
I think once we do the brown shoes and the brown belt,
it'll help me visualize it a little more.
But we definitely need to go darker with that tie.
So they had very slim options as far as tie color,
for the brown that we're looking for.
So I will be in charge of finding the belt and the tie
to match the shoes to finish that brown look.
Well, I like that. I think that looks good.
Of course, a different color tie, but it just stands out.
In general, I've -- I've just never really been big
on clothes shopping. I just --
it just hasn't really been an interest.
[Elizabeth] You wanna know why?
If there ain't no damn fishing hook, fish, piece of camo,
animal on it, he ain't gonna care.
-[Trent] So that's not the color tie, right? -[Elizabeth] No.
-[Trent] The color's gonna be darker. -[Elizabeth] The color -- yes.
I think you need the more white background,
the more it's gonna stand out and pop.
I think real tree camo would look great.
No.
I do have another option if you can --
if I can show y'all real quick. -[Elizabeth] Yeah.
Brice has brought up wearing camo a few times, and I am
getting tired of this argument because I am not having
our red wedding being remembered
as some redneck camo-like shindig.
It needs to be remembered as a beautiful wedding.
A wedding can still be beautiful with camo.
No.
-So those are the kind of browns. -Mm-hmm.
But it's almost like we kinda...
Like, this fabric is fine.
Like, the fabric type is perfect, but it's almost like
if it's just a little bit darker. -[person #2] Yeah.
OK, so I know you said no to a vest,
but we've got the camo tie. -No.
-[Trent] Oh, my gosh, that's great. -No.
-[Trent] Yeah. -No.
Like, that actually looks like I'm out in a deer stand
on my wedding, too. -[Elizabeth] No.
He can try it on, but we're not doing that.
I really want to put on this camo vest.
It just caught my eye so quick. I'm like...
"Gosh, please let me wear this at the wedding."
-That's what I'm talking about. -[Trent] Yeah.
-It's great. -I love it.
[Elizabeth] No.
The white lays good with the -- the shirt.
Yeah, the white.
[Trent] We're not just telling you that.
[Jonah] No.
Per usual, Brice looks good in camo, and you are having
the biggest day of your life in a couple months.
Why not wear what you look good in?
The men on the couches wanna know, how do you like it?
-I -- I like it a lot. -[Elizabeth] I don't.
-Like, this -- this is me. -We're not doing camo.
-[Trent] It's very much him. -[Jonah] You chose him.
He is a Southern boy, not a redneck.
-No. -[Trent] That's not redneck.
Oh, [bleep] I'm not gonna answer that.
You can't walk away from this and say, "That's not him."
[Trent] What can you do to make Elizabeth like this?
[Brice] I don't think there's not a whole lot.
[Elizabeth] Gotta be nice in front of my father-in-law.
I can't get mean with Jonah.
But Pop hasn't seen that side of me with Jonah,
or else Jonah would have...
I cannot wait till Jonah's wedding day,
because I'm gonna be like, [bleep],
"We're gonna put feathers, we're gonna have orange."
Jonah...
Mm.
Not in camo, though. Oh, that looks awful, Brice.
I'm giving him a very Brice-themed groomsman cake.
That's his surprise.
-Set it aside. -No.
I'm giving him a very Brice-themed groomsman
cake, that's his surprise.
-Set it aside. -No.
So of course, you know, Brice loves hunting.
And of course, they had camo.
So I was pretty much ganged up on from all the guys wanting
to go with the camo.
[Trent] Chuck, let's ask Dad. What's he think?
-The wedding? -[Elizabeth] Uh-huh.
-The wedding itself? -[Elizabeth] Yeah.
Just like you like. Just like you want.
-Ah, thank you. -[Chuck] Alright?
We're all in agreement with that.
But at the reception, what if he changes to that?
[Elizabeth] I'm fine with that,
'cause we'll have all the pretty photos
out of the way. -[Chuck] Good job, lady!
[Stephanie] Well, those will be, like, very fun, fun photos.
Good job, Pop, yeah.
[Chuck] Let's put it this way.
I thought it was a good compromise.
I'm -- I'm glad that she was for it for the reception,
but I get it, I mean, not wanting it for the wedding.
I mean, I perfectly understand.
As long as I get to wear it, no matter if it's
in the reception or not, I'll -- I'll be happy.
-[Trent] Alright. -Cool.
[Trent] Very cool.
All right, everybody else get measured up.
[Elizabeth] Yes.
I'm feeling pretty OK with Brice's,
you know, suit fitting.
I am, you know, just a little bit nervous when it comes
to my family's suit fittings because I have Jonah, Alex,
and my dad to worry about.
And, you know, they're little people, so it's a lot of fun.
That's gonna be a little snug, so we're definitely
gonna need a 38 in his jacket. -[person #2] OK.
When it comes to multiple pieces, like a suit,
the measurements are pretty tedious.
We don't want the suit but,
like the size of the suit, to be too long.
We don't want the arms too long, but we don't want
the shoulders to feel too tight.
We don't want the pants to look, like, super baggy.
[Trent] Is the shirt good, or do you wanna go up one size?
'Cause right now, you're kinda...
I mean, I could untuck it, or is it --
I mean, do you think it's too small?
[Stephanie] I have not worked with little people before.
I'm always glad that we did bring an assortment of sizing
to kind of weigh out what wouldn't work and what did work.
This isn't, like, perfect, but it kinda
gives you an idea. -[Jonah] Yeah, yeah.
We want them to be pretty fitted, but not like
skinny-jean fit, just that nice,
comfortable, um, fit.
Feel good?
So there's a lot that goes into the alterations
for my side.
Brice's side is super easy-peasy for the most part.
But luckily, everything was fitting everybody pretty well.
Thank goodness, even the shoes.
And then your height?
-5'1". -[Elizabeth] No.
51 inches tall. It's 4'3".
-Thank you. -[Stephanie] Alright, alright, OK.
I say 5'1", because that's 51 inches,
which translates to 4'3".
[Stephanie] OK, let's do your neck.
Math, what's this thing?
Biggest challenge is, does it make more sense to...
purchase these tuxedos
and have them permanently altered
to fit the three of us, or for us to rent the tuxedos...
and have them...
adapted,
which is basically all the legs and the sleeves
tucked up underneath, tucked inside?
So if we went the whole rental route, what's the price
for just these three, based on the piece?
-A piece. -$236 with shoes.
[Elizabeth] $236 with shoes? OK.
-And then if we bought? -The jacket is usually around
$329 and the pants are like $129.
So right, you know, between $450 to $500.
It'd be great if we could go the rental route, just to see.
So after having a talk with my parents about the whole wedding
budget and now having an idea of what our wedding budget is,
I'm really hoping that we will be able to rent
all of the groom and groomsmen's tuxes.
Yes, but in my experience, I've done modified tuxes
where they just tuck it up, and then you don't mean to,
but you put your foot in there.
You have to make sure you get it all to lay flat.
You don't stick your foot behind the --
the hem and tear it out. -OK.
You know, my dad and brothers are not super comfortable
with renting these tuxes,
so it looks like they are going to purchase these tuxes
to just have altered, like we always do with our clothes.
And it's something that we're definitely concerned about.
I'll do belts and ties.
Shoes, pants, jacket, shirts are done.
So now that we have finished the suits, I'm just literally
thinking about all the dates that we have,
the date for my dress to come in,
the date for the suits to come in.
And I am hoping that everything comes in time.
-Y'all made it painless. -Thank you very much.
-Thank you, thank you. -Thank you so much.
[Trent] Hopefully we'll be handsome.
♪ Higher, higher ♪
♪ Running every day ♪
♪ I'm running trying to make a way ♪
♪ I wanna go higher ♪
[Emma] Shelby, sweep, sweep.
Leighton absolutely loves animals.
You know, we took her to a farm where they had a lot of animals
that Layton was allowed to, you know, like,
pet and come in close contact with.
[Elizabeth] Oh, look, here comes the chickens, look.
And the rooster.
[Amber] The chickens I don't mind.
-She loves the chickens. -[Amber] Yeah.
[both imitating chicken sounds]
Look, there's the chickens. What's the chicken say?
[imitating chicken sounds]
So this gave me the idea of let's get some animals
that Leighton can play with at the house.
We have some cats, but I think it would be fun to expand
and get some chickens.
So I mean, you can just look up like chicken
varieties or something. We had Rhode Island Reds.
-I loved the silky chickens. -[Alex] Those are funny looking.
Silky chickens have a very unique look to them.
[Alex] Oh, it looks like they have like firm,
fur-like feathers. -[Amber] That is so cool.
If I had to describe a silky chicken to somebody, I would
just say, like, imagine just like your ordinary chicken,
but like with a bunch of fur, and it looks like a big fuzz
ball, and you can't really see their eyes either, so...
-Leighton would love those, she would. -Yeah.
But it'll be so cute to see her, like, go and get the eggs
and go and, you know, do the feed and see if silky
chickens lay eggs, 'cause I would have liked
fresh chicken eggs. -I feel like they all -- yeah.
Yes, silky chickens do lay eggs.
[Amber] OK.
You know, they don't lay as many eggs.
They lay, like, every couple days, which is just fine
for our family.
Was that Dad?
[Amber] I think so.
Oh, if he comes over here, this is what we'll tell him.
Telling Trent that the family is getting chickens, I mean,
I'm sure he'll have some hesitation at first,
and he'll be like...
We are thinking about getting chickens.
-Oh, Sam Hill. -[Amber] But silky chickens.
We have been doing our research.
We can actually order silky chickens.
They will be delivered.
This is what kind of chicken we want to get.
[Trent] OK, but I'll give you $20.
[Amber] I know.
Do they have to be in the shade?
[Trent] Are we buying this off of looks?
[Amber] Yes.
These chickens that they're looking at now,
I think they're very cool-looking.
I think they're very, like...
out of the ordinary. But when I look at them,
I -- I think about, like, Woodstock
in the '70s and hippies. Yeah.
So here's something you need to consider.
-[Amber] What? -Real life.
We don't live in the city.
Like, when we had all those chickens last time, we were
in the city.
But that was a controlled environment.
If we're gonna have chickens here, out there...
[Amber] Yeah.
There's predators out there. There's coyotes, foxes,
raccoons. -OK.
-And I understand that. I understand that. -I'm just being for real.
And, I mean, yeah, it was somewhat controlled,
but there was issues 'cause we had cars.
I mean, our freaking chickens were jumping the fences.
-And we had snakes. -We had snakes.
I will support y'all a thousand percent, but I don't -- I don't --
I don't -- I don't touch the chickens, I don't touch -- I don't touch anything.
You don't have to touch the chickens.
-You can't even catch them. -You -- you know that you...
I just -- I just go by and blow grass on them, but...
But you are gonna help build the coop.
-No. -[Amber] 'Cause I will be at work.
I'm not building this coop, because when the...
He is building the coop.
When the tyrants and the predators
force their way into this house of feathered flock of chickens
and a massacre happens, they're gonna be like,
"You didn't build it good enough."
And trust me, he ain't gonna be able to sit back and just
let y'all do the coop.
-He's gonna be out there making sure. -[Trent] Do you wanna bet?
[Emma] You'll gonna be like, "Do this, paint this, and..."
Yeah, he's gonna be making sure --
making sure you have all the tools, making sure
that it's getting done right. -[Trent] Golf shop's been busy.
[Emma] All this.
-[Elizabeth] Hi, hello! -[Mary Virginia] Hi, guys.
Come on in. How are you?
-[Elizabeth] Good. How are you? -[Emma] Good!
[Elizabeth] Besides it being a little wet today.
-[Mary Virginia] It is wet. How are you, Lizzie? -[Elizabeth] Good.
-Hey, Emma. -[Emma] Hey.
Mary Virginia happens to be the same baker
that did Leighton's first birthday cake and cookies.
So let's see if she can do a bass fish cake
for Brice's groomsman cake for the wedding.
Tell me what it is that you're looking for today.
So her father, my soon-to-be husband, he's just a nice
southern gentleman, but he loves to hunt.
He loves to fish.
He loves football. He loves baseball.
But more besides loving this one and me a lot,
he loves fishing,
-[Mary Virginia] OK. -[Elizabeth] So I'm thinking
like a fishing-themed cake.
I am not all for, you know, the pressure
of having camo being incorporated into the tuxes,
so instead I will be putting some camo into Brice's
groom's cake, and I don't mind a little camo on that 'cause
it gets eaten, and then you no longer see it.
[Mary Virginia] Wait, they're sugar.
-[Elizabeth] Oh! -[Emma] Oh!
[Mary Virginia] The flowers are all sugar, so...
She can't play with them.
-I'm sorry. -[Elizabeth] That's OK.
-That's very good, though. -[Mary Virginia] Thanks.
[Emma] Leighton just loves flowers.
And I'm not sitting here thinking she's got edible
flowers on display.
I thought the flowers on the wall were real.
And so Leighton was reaching for one.
I'm like, "Oh, yeah, she loves flowers."
And Miss Virginia was like, "Oh, no,
she can't touch those flowers."
And I was like, "Oh, why?"
And 'cause that's a first.
Normally, they're like, "Oh, yeah."
She's like, "Those are sugar flowers, they're not real."
And we were like.
-Ease. -[Mary Virginia] Leighton.
Would you like a flower?
[Emma] Look, she has a flower.
[Mary Virginia] Leighton, I've got you a flower.
[Elizabeth] Ooh, say thank you.
-Maybe, OK. -[Elizabeth] Thank you.
-Yay! -[Mary Virginia] There you go.
[Emma] A big flower.
[Elizabeth] Thank you.
And then me and Emma are like, we're like -- we're like playing
that game show, like, is it cake or not?"
So we're like, "Is the default cake?"
'cause they were beautiful and so realistic.
-[Emma] Some butterflies. -But that was amazing.
So what we've got left is the lemon raspberry
with the vanilla bean cake. -[Elizabeth] OK.
The almond, the red velvet,
the spiced cake with the pumpkin mascarpone, and on the end is
chocolate chocolate. -Gotcha.
♪ Oh, we'll have our cake and eat it ♪
♪ Oh, we'll have our cake and eat it, ooh ♪
[Elizabeth] That one's good.
I'm excited about this next one.
I don't think Brice would like that one,
just 'cause it's... -No.
Too plain for Brice, I know.
Red velvet cake.
[Elizabeth] I'm personally not a big red velvet fan.
It's just kinda...
I'm interested about this one.
This is more like the fall-time flavor.
Yeah.
[Elizabeth] Definitely not feeling the pumpkin.
We're not at Thanksgiving, so this cake can't feel like
we're at Thanksgiving dinner.
I'm pretty sure Dad's groomsmen cake
was chocolate, all chocolate.
♪ Oh, we'll have our cake and eat it ♪
♪ Cake ♪
What are you doing? Are you trying to poo poo?
We gotta clean this up. Thank you.
Are you trying to poop?
Yeah, maybe.
I think Leighton was trying to work out a poop,
in the cake tasting.
We grabbed some breakfast before we came 'cause
my girl's gotta eat.
So I think she was trying to figure out, you know,
working out a poo or letting out some toots.
But she was breaking it down.
She had to do her thing.
I think it's between the raspberry
and the chocolate. -[Emma] That's what I was thinking.
-Yeah, that's what you were thinking too for him? -Literally thinking.
I know Alright, Leighton...
-The lemon raspberry. -...this is where I need you.
You're more like your dad than anything.
-[Emma] Alright, Leighton. -[Emma] You need her to try.
You want a bite?
Want a bite?
I'm so surprised that Leighton was not wanting to try
any of the cake, 'cause normally she loves
this kind of cake, thanks to this one.
She's the one that feeds her all the bad stuff,
or the stuff that I, like...
-Not the bad stuff. -...she needs small amount.
-Not like horrible. -Like, the good stuff.
But like "Leighton, you wanna try a little cupcake?
You want a little muffin?"
I really think -- I think it's gonna be this one.
-The lemon raspberry? -[Elizabeth] Yeah.
The lemon raspberry with the vanilla.
What do you think?
I think we nailed down the winner,
the lemon raspberry. -OK.
She even said, "That's -- that's more of Brice's liking."
So since we are finished with, you know, designing
the groom's cake,
I am super excited, but also a little nervous about
how this cake will turn out because the groom's cake is
just another added expense,
and I hope I hope it turns out OK and is worth the money.
I think he will definitely enjoy it.
And besides that, as long as you can have it ready
by November 8th. -[Mary Virginia] I will have it
ready and there.
♪ Oh, darling ♪
♪ Brush up your denim jeans ♪
♪ We're getting our kicks for free ♪
How many chicken coops are there?
[Emma] It's just one.
It turns out I lost this chicken argument.
So now I am helping the kids build this chicken coop.
I knew he would get invested.
I definitely think that piece goes over here
and this piece goes over there.
I'm not saying that instructions have been missed,
but I did scroll back through the instructions.
And I don't know if one of the panels were
twisted or backwards.
The two, we'll call it the runner panels, there was
a back-and-forth there for a minute.
[Jonah] No, line -- line it on the inside.
You have it -- you -- you have it facing out wrong way.
[Trent] So in the beginning, when y'all started this project
and you unboxed everything, like, who was captain, who was, who was, uh...
like, the helpers?
We really didn't discuss that.
Were we supposed to discuss that?
I think -- so we -- I -- by the looks of it,
we're reinforcing this thing 'cause we're missing parts.
So I'm assuming, is it gonna be as sturdy as we want it
to protect these chickens from predators or are we gonna
have an issue?
Um, to answer your questions, there's gonna be predators.
-[Jonah] Yeah. -It's about whether they can get to them or not.
But I also don't know...
I don't have a chicken degree, so I don't know if the chickens
are gonna, like, stress and die
from, like, a coyote running around outside that pen.
Fried chicken or grilled chicken?
Five.
One, two, three, four. Four.
A cluster.
A flock.
Like in the sky? Like all the way up?
No.
Well, it depends on what you're -- what you're talking about, but yes.
They can elevate across, and fly across.
[Amber] They can elevate and go a little bit.
And like your bigger chickens, yeah, 'cause we used to have
to clip their wings.
-No. -Yes.
-Eggs. -Laying eggs.
Laying eggs.
[Trent] Set it down.
I'm excited for chickens. Are you, Dad?
-Come on. -You hear the coyote?
Can you see the whole thing?
Yeah.
[Trent] Well, you can put rocks around it, and predators will
dig those rocks out of it.
They'll flip them out with their paws.
[Jonah] It's supposed to be staked down anyway.
That wouldn't hurt.
But then again, you wanna be able to move this
around a little bit.
We have a whole lot going on preparing for this wedding.
I mean, we have projects after projects after projects.
And some of these projects are significantly big.
So like, randomly parachuting in this chicken hobby,
I'm not against it,
but maybe the timing's just not right.
-So like... -[Jonah] You can just pull the steaks out.
That's gonna require me every time.
You said yes to this.
[Trent] I did not say yes to this.
Oh, well, you didn't say no, so...
[Trent] I showed resistance.
-[Elizabeth] Knock know. -[Amber] What do you have?
-[Emma] Yeah. -We're gonna rip pearls off your veil.
-And this is not my veil. -Let's not use the words rip.
OK.
Let's say we're gonna take them off.
-We're gonna take them off to work on the veil. -[Emma] OK, you can't
even rip it. -This is obviously not gonna be my veil.
-This was just lengthwise. -[Amber] Probably match...
'Cause I don't want
whatever really long veils are called, whatever really short
veils are called, and... -[Amber] Oh, yeah.
-The bottom. -I don't want layered.
[Amber] The bottom layer.
It's not gonna be layered, [indistinct] like this. -[Amber] No, I know.
-But that's the length you need to go with. -[Emma] Yeah.
It's gonna be one single piece.
It's more gonna be kinda like this.
How this is just very simple. Very light stuff.
-[Amber] Yeah. -Ow, ow.
[Amber] Well, I'm looking to see if --
-Yeah, that bottom, bottom layer. -But also...
We're mainly doing the pearls.
But you gotta go get the dress.
The plan for the veil and the hairpiece is I found
a designer that makes hairpieces and veils, turns out.
And pretty much, I'm going to be removing some pearls
off my mom's wedding dress.
So I will say, I do like that yours is more like pearls.
-Mm-hmm. -[Elizabeth] I do like that more than just like just
the sparkle, like. -Sparkle?
As tradition, you're supposed to wear something old,
something new, that whole shebang.
And I figured my something old and kind of something borrowed
is me making the hairpiece for mom's wedding dress.
I would take more than what you -- you think because
that way she has... plenty.
I am. I just take it from the bottom.
I don't wanna necessarily just take it from the front.
-That's the thing. -I don't have, yeah, these are
just different sized round ones on the bottom.
[Elizabeth] Yeah, but that's why we're taking more from the bottom
than the top, cause I don't wanna...
take a lot.
But you're not gonna be sad or regret me doing this,
'cause I'm doing this for Emma, too.
I'll definitely have to add a little bit more sparkle
to the veil in my wedding, but I don't know.
I'm not thinking about that right now, so...
Not -- not a couple years.
-Decades. -Yeah.
So we went, you know, did the suits.
Should have brought you for that.
Should have known having Jonah and Dad it would have been awful.
It's your wedding. It's not your mother's wedding.
Yeah, but that's your husband and your son.
They made the most havoc.
They happen -- they happen to be your brother and your father.
Yeah, but you were the one that you found your -- you found the father
and you birthed the son.
I just happened to come along at a happier time, apparently.
So I should have left them and just FaceTimed them,
because Dad was making it very stressful, and Jonah was, too.
We get to the damn suit shop, and I have Tweedledee
and Tweedledum with me, a.k.a. Boppa and Jonah.
I should have left their asses at home, because then the camo
came into play, and then the honorary,
stubborn, oh, they made me so mad that day of them saying
"It's fine, it looks good, it's Brice's wedding, too.
It's great." No.
At the end of the day, no.
So what'd you guys end up with, black?
[Elizabeth] You know, the black suit jacket and the black pants,
but they had camo selection thinking that was so funny,
white camo, and Dad was egging them on, and sorry, it may be
some people's taste but not ours and our wedding pictures
to look back on, I don't want to look back on that,
but you know how Jonah and Dad like to egg and egg and egg.
"Elizabeth, he has to have a say, too.
Elizabeth, Brice needs to have a say."
Brice is having a wedding smack dab in deer season.
God bless Chuck being there. He was like,
"If Brice wants to wear the camo,
"save it for the reception.
The ceremony, it needs to be traditional," and I was like,
"Oh, thank God."
Brice and the camo vest,
I mean, OK, yeah, we know Brice is all about
hunting and fishing, but that camo,
is just really tacky. -[Emma] It doesn't look like...
And I feel like we've -- we've put enough hunting and fishing
in this whole engagement, wedding.
I mean, we're having the wedding outside,
for God's sake.
We're having it down where he hunts.
We're having it during hunting season.
I think we're, you know, crossing all the T's,
dotting all the I's for Brice's honey and fishing.
-Yeah, see that -- that camo is so ugly. -[Elizabeth] It's awful, I know.
-[Emma] know the white background.
Hopefully, Brice will -- will be too distracted, he won't
ever change into the camo, because I saw the picture of the camo...
No, I told the lady to cancel it.
-[Elizabeth] Yeah. -...and that was ugly camo.
I called the lady back and I said, "Don't worry
about camo, we're canceling that, we're not doing that."
It doesn't surprise me that they canceled the camo order.
I was expecting it to come anyways.
We wanna keep it classy.
We wanna keep it classy, unfortunately.
Turns out the rental price, and since we have to rent...
four and buy three,
they're actually not that far apart in price.
Alright, let me see how many.
[Elizabeth] Which is great.
But while I was on the phone with Stephanie, she gave me
the phone back to Kim.
-[Amber] Kim? -To Miss Kim.
Sorry, a lot of blonde ladies at that store.
Miss Kim.
And apparently, my dress has been pushed further out
for delivery. -Oh, Lord, what's the date now?
Like, middle of October.
OK, well, that will not work.
So the latest update on my dress was that it is now coming
around, like, the middle of October, and our wedding is
the first week of November, which is definitely not enough
time for me to be able to get alterations done on the dress.
So yeah, I'm freaking out.
[Amber] Next time on "7 Little Johnstons."
So this is the first time I've ever gotten chicken in a box
where it's still alive.
They look like gray balls.
Wow, he's big!
See if you can walk up and pick one up without it running.
Too wide, too wide, too wide.
-You're going out too much. -[dance instructor] Six, seven.
No, I'm not.
I can't -- he can't accept criticism,
so I -- I can't say anything bad about him.
Stay with your partner.
-You hear that, buddy? -Do you hear that?
-Grazing station. -[person #1] Oh, my God.
So Liz didn't want any stripper at her bachelorette party,
but we have something up our sleeves.
Oh, my God.
[Amber] There she is, right there.