[Liz] Previously on "Seven Little Johnstons."
All right.
There's been a lot of --
There's been a lot of changes and a lot of great things.
[Liz] Night, night.
This evening is our first night staying in our home.
[Brice chuckles]
Please do not make a big ol' mess.
-So now that we have our home -- -Marriage.
-[loud pop] -Ooh.
-[Alex] Am I moving up here? -[Allie] I think you should.
You seem pretty dead set on staying here,
so I don't think I have much more choice. -I am.
My ideal plan is that once I'm through with college,
I think that's when I'll start looking
at moving up there with Allie.
Look at us, going from being 16, talking about prom.
-Now we're talking about babies and engagement. -[Liz laughs]
I'm super excited about the future.
-What can I do for you? -Just looking for some
engagement rings. -OK.
[Brice] Of course, you know I am nervous,
'cause it's a once-in-a-lifetime thing.
Oh, gosh, my heart's racing.
Happy birthday, Amanda.
Gosh darn! I just had a heart attack.
[Trent] I told her to scare you.
[Nana] Any time they come is wonderful.
I'm very fortunate.
I still think we should pack you up and move you to Heidi's.
I like my house.
I like it right here.
How come you don't come around?
It's like you're missing, like, Leighton's
early childhood.
Like, you could still be around.
It's not that e -- that -- it --
It's not that easy after I get yelled at.
Parents can come to my house and be rude as [bleep],
but I'm supposed to show up to my parents' house
acting like nothing happened.
You honestly, in your heart, feel like mom and dad
still love you? -Yes, and I love you guys.
If you're not ready to talk,
that's how we have to move... -[Amber] That's your --
forward right now.
I love my family to death,
but, um...at a certain point,
I have to stick up for myself.
Call us when you're ready.
-Yeah. -We miss you.
-We miss y'all. -And we love you.
[Anna] Love you.
[intense music plays]
♪ I can tell you the story about two lovers ♪
♪ And how their dreams came true ♪
♪ Ain't no holding back, no you discovered my show ♪
♪ When it comes to you, girl you're the queen of my world ♪
♪ You're the one God sent from above ♪
Put your hand in your...pocket, like, make it look cool.
No -- [laughing], oh, my God.
We got to show that this is engagement,
not, like, regular photos. -I know.
We are getting married!
[Brice] Holy crap, we're engaged!
-Smile! -[Brice] You smile.
A couple weeks ago, we went on a beach trip with my parents
in Florida and Brice surprised me on the beach with a proposal.
I just wanted to be at us three alone.
She definitely had the biggest smile on her face.
I was very happy, super surprised,
and I could not wait to tell everybody.
And we just waited for him to give us the text of,
"All right, it's done. Y'all can come on."
When I got to the beach and saw the ring on her finger
and was just so happy for them.
And I was so excited that I didn't have to keep this secret
anymore because it was very hard to keep it away from Liz.
Elizabeth is our first child to get engaged,
and we cannot wait to celebrate.
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
[Liz] Babe, take your shoes off. I'm staying in mine for height.
And I don't care if I get these dirties.
[photographer] You're keeping them on in the water?
-Yeah. -Those?
-For height. -[photographer] Are you crazy?
-Babe. -I'm gonna shrink.
-Now, come on. -Do not do that.
He's used to you being short, I promise.
Yes, like, do not -- Well, it's too late now.
Hopefully those -- those weren't expensive.
No.
See, because my dress is gonna get wet anyways.
This is part of the photo.
When Trent and I were engaged,
I'm not gonna say that engagement photos
were not a thing,
because...
they may have been, but for us, no.
[photographer] One, two, three.
-Don't fall. -No, my shoe got broke.
-You ready? -Yeah.
[photographer] OK, hold on. One, two, three.
There we go! And she didn't fall.
[Trent] In our little people community, our wedding photo,
it was in the "Little People of America Today..."
in the back. You know, they put you
right back there with the obituary
of the little people.
So -- they got married, and they died.
OK, so what's the surprise that you were talking about?
Well, I'll have to show you. I can't just tell you.
OK, well, show me.
I'll be right back.
So I plan to have a little surprise
for our engagement photos.
Brice.
-No! -[Brice] What?
-[Liz] No. -Come on.
-[Liz] No. -I mean, I think it looks good,
especially on the river.
I don't mind drowning you in this water now.
When Brice shows up in full camo, I'm like,
"It doesn't surprise me."
These aren't going on our wedding page
or in an invitation, so you can just have them
to put in your shed and lock away forever,
but that's about it. -As long as I have them.
[Liz laughs]
[Jonah] I think in order, starting from top to bottom,
Brice's priorities are
Leighton, Elizabeth,
fishing,
hunting, and...
cold beer.
[photographer] Now look at each other and smile.
Not like you hate each other. There we go.
She didn't kill him. We're good.
Even though I may suffer, I'm just glad we got all
the pretty pictures done and away with,
the ones that will definitely be going on the invite.
Mm-hmm.
[photographer] Oh, that's cute. Just keep doing that.
-Hmm. -Well, you don't have to make that mean --
[photographer] There we go. Let the dimples pop.
[Brice] All right, I got one more.
[Liz] Of course.
Brice had another outfit for me.
-[Brice] All right. -[Liz] Holy --
You ready?
What you think?
This is gonna be you like 30 years.
-Are you happy now? -[Brice] Yeah.
[photographer] Does he have, like, a man cave?
Yes, he does.
OK, well, we're gonna frame one of these for his man cave.
We can't wait to see the photos.
But in the back of my mind, I know we need to get started
on this wedding planning
because it's a quick engagement.
Come on, Gilligan. Let's go home.
[Brice] Maybe we should get married in this?
[ominous music plays]
Mom?
Hello?
Molly?
I went flower girl dress shopping
while Emma was watching Leighton for me.
Emma is our go-to babysitter with Leighton
because they have a bond like no other.
You got to come look at Leighton's dress --
Oh, wow!
How'd you fit into that?
-I did. -Waist snatcher.
-Oh. -I'm in this.
You grew.
-[Amber] I know. -Your toes.
-I can see your toes. -I know.
-When I -- -'Cause you said
you walked barefoot down the aisle.
I did, and the dress was like that.
But I did not grow.
So I don't know what --
I mean, other than I probably didn't have that,
so it made it go down.
This is my wedding dress from November 21st, 1998.
But I pulled it out because we have dress shopping
coming -- wedding dress shopping coming up for Elizabeth,
to show her
what a wedding dress looks like from the '90s.
But I figured I would, um --
well, A, see if I was able to get back in my dress.
But then the other thing is, is we've got your wedding dress
shopping appointment. -This was so much more fun.
This is prepping you that... it's gonna be...
[Liz] I don't know if my dress is gonna be --
-...highly uncomfortable. -That's snatched, but yeah.
I mean, mom's wedding dress style that she had picked
when she had her wedding, uh, it was very my mom.
Very similar to the style that I want as far
as like the fabric and, like, the beading, but I know
I cannot fit into her dress, so I can't use it.
-Oh, my gosh. -[hums wedding march]
-Emma could, however. -I could.
We just have to get some padding
for her chest. -Oh, my gosh.
That's about it.
Yeah, can you believe your mom can
get back in this thing? -You can fit.
-Yeah, [humming]. -Leigh, you see it?
Me?
I'm a sophomore in college, majoring in psychology.
I'm still TikToking.
And I'm enjoying playing with my niece.
So I will say I do like that yours is more like pearls.
I do like that more than like just the sparkle.
-Sparkle. -'Cause I know nowadays
a lot of the dresses are like really sparkly.
I guess yours is like embroidered.
I know the neckline, I want it very similar, like just lower.
I don't want it up.
But like this -- the A-line, the scoop.
I know what it's like to take Elizabeth clothes shopping.
Elizabeth has almost zero patience.
So wedding dress shopping, I'm --
we may even be in the negative.
And I don't want the sweetheart, and I don't want a poofy skirt.
I think she's gonna be a nightmare.
As far as...
thinking about, you know, the LP factor and trying on dresses,
don't put that as like, "Oh, this totally won't work."
Just try it on, and then we can go from there.
Because really, I mean, even if there's not a seam like here,
they can make one.
With any little person, when you're seeing a photo
of someone in a wedding dress, that someone is not you.
And we talked about that with Elizabeth.
She's like, "Looking at all these pictures, I like this
and I like..." She says, "I just
wish I knew what it looked like on a little person."
And I said, "We've never had that chance."
Now, are you able to get out of the dress?
Well, I mean, I'll have to have help.
So my wedding dress shopping story, I went to the outlet
store up in Forest Park, Georgia.
They have a selection of wedding dresses, $199.
[Liz] You see, I got her potential flower girl dresses.
-Yeah. -[flatulence] Yeah?
[Liz] Did you just fart? Your dress just made you fart?
It's squeezing you? Oh, my God.
Yeah, it's like squeezing your belly.
-I hear it, it's like -- -Jeez.
[laughing] Yes.
So my dress is extremely tight,
and it caused me to let out a little fart.
I mean...
it has to go somewhere.
And actually, it made a little bit more room.
-Emma, you got to come help me. -[Emma] Oh, this way?
-We're going this way? -[Amber] Yes, yes.
[Liz hums the wedding march] Dun, dun, da-dun.
[upbeat music plays]
-Happy Father's Day. -[Amber] Happy Father's Day.
[Liz speaking]
[Trent] If it wasn't for the fathers --
you gotta understand something. This is very important.
[Amber] If it wasn't for the fathers, there would be
no mothers, if it wasn't for the mothers... -No, listen.
-...there would be no fathers. -Listen.
This is a shared day, because you're...23?
-[Amber] Oh, my God. -Good job.
[Amber] Yes, she's 23.
23 years ago...
your mama probably wasn't in the mood,
but she just gave in for about four minutes. -Whatever.
[Amber] OK, OK. Why are we talking about this?
[Liz] Whatever.
-Whatever. -Happy Father's Day.
[Liz] Yeah, Emma was luckily imported, so she don't have
to worry about that. -[Emma] Yeah.
It's Father's Day, and this is the first time the family has
gotten together since Brice and Elizabeth got engaged.
This fella right here, he was the easiest.
-We just went up to the Atlanta airport. -[Emma] Oh, my gosh.
We got our little package and came home.
-Right? -Right.
Happy Father's Day.
-[Amber] Oh, to, to bring home? -[Emma] Oh, OK.
All of our children have...
the opportunity and the freedom to participate in the show.
And the ones that have chosen to participate
are participating,
and the ones that have not, are not.
[Trent] Happy Father's Day, Brice.
-[Brice] Thank you. -[Jonah] Thank you, you too.
So when are you gonna become a father?
-Do I still got a while? -[Jonah] Got to get married.
So, you know, life's been pretty good.
Ashley and I have been together, um...
for going on six years now.
I'm finishing up college, so back doing that.
And overall, it's just taking it day by day
and enjoying life.
I've already told Brice for our wedding planning
that we are not going to be doing a fish fry for our food.
-Yeah. -Too hot, too...oily.
[Liz] Well, then that's when we were talking about, like,
what season, what we would like to do.
So how soon do you want to get married?
[Liz] We have talked about wanting to do
our wedding this year,
because there's no need to wait a whole other year...
'cause we're moved in. We have Leighton.
So we are planning to get married in November
of this year.
So this is definitely gonna be a quick engagement,
just because we've been dating for six years.
Why wait any longer?
-Like fall of this year? -Yeah.
Between now and November, we have a lot to get done
and everything to, um, you know, be done
the way that...
um, Elizabeth wants it, the way that Trent wants it,
the way that I want it. It's -- you know.
Hope we're able to pull it off.
Leighton, when do you want mom and daddy to get married?
Right now, yeah.
Yeah, right now. Oh, what?
We have always talked about, even before Leighton,
how me and mom would jokingly say, like,
"Oh, it'd be funny if we did, like...
a wedding in the backyard."
That's a lot of work.
That's a lot of work, but it saves money for a venue.
It's not just a matter of going down there
and setting up our wedding.
Venues are booked out until 2027.
But aren't there venues where you just, like, write a check
and they do everything? -No.
Yeah, but those are booked -- There is,
but those are booked out. -[Liz] Booked out until 2027.
And you're gonna pay three times as much.
We are thinking about having our wedding
at my parents' house, down in the field, in the backyard,
because it's a lot of meaningful things that have happened.
It would be great to say we got married here
and to bring our kids back in the future and say,
"This spot is where you and me and your dad made it official."
So I mean, too, another reason why I want to do
it in the fall is...
Nana's health right now,
like hoping to see Brice and I married.
Nana is not doing too well.
Um...in April, she was diagnosed with metastatic cancer.
Right now, she is in a nursing home under hospice care,
and we are pretty certain she is not gonna be able
to attend the wedding.
From here on out, we're going to make sure that Nana
is comfortable and she's peaceful,
and we're gonna enjoy the time that we have with her.
And when do you send out the wedding announcement?
Do we still do that? Is that a thing now?
Yes, it's a thing, 'cause you -- you do save-the-date cards.
[Trent] You send out "save-the-date"?
You send out save-the-date cards
before you send out -- -[Jonah] -It's like the preliminary invite
before the real invite.
Yeah, the preliminary invite to the real invite.
-It's like a warning notice? -[Liz] Yeah.
Yeah, a warning notice.
Hum.
It's really self-explanatory, too.
So let me think this over.
When we come back from the convention,
I'll send the save-the-dates.
And then, um...around Labor Day,
I'll send out the wedding invites.
Do you send wedding invitations first
or save-the-dates first? -Save-the-dates first.
It's kind of like a heads-up, like, "Hey,
our weddings' going to be on this day."
Everybody that gets the warning notice, do they get a --
Yes, an invitation.
But it lets them know, like, "Book your calendar."
Like, "Go ahead and put this date down.
Save this date."
The wedding invite is kinda like,
"Hey, it's happening, get ready."
And then it's, like, all the details.
-Like, like -- -[Trent] I just don't get it.
I don't know, like, why don't you just --
[Brice] It's just --
I'm glad I have you.
I know, that's why.
Mm-hmm.
I just need you there November 8th at 3 PM..
-I'll be there. -All right, baby.
I think she's ready to get out of the high-chair.
[Trent] Let me tell you, five months...
is a very short time period when planning a wedding
and everything that we have to do.
♪ I shot diamonds forever I for words are better ♪
♪ Dress up in gold ♪
-Hello. -How are you guys?
It's so nice to meet everyone. Welcome to the shop.
-Thank you. -Um...so first, give me a rundown.
This is my mother. This is my younger sister.
-This is my other sister from another mother. -I love that.
We've known each other since first grade,
so that's why she's practically a sister.
My other mom, but this is Mandy.
And then this is my -- she really doesn't look her age
to be this, but she's my great aunt.
-Oh, my goodness. -This is actually my dad's aunt,
but she is here with us today as well.
So all the important ladies.
I definitely think these are the girls to bring
when it comes to wedding dress shopping.
They will be honest about their opinions,
and I think their reactions will help me out a lot.
And this will be a great time to formally ask Madison
to be my maid of honor.
OK, cool. So you've been dress shopping before?
No, but I have an idea of what I am looking for,
but we're open to trying different options.
But I don't want a super poofy skirt.
It just makes, it shrinks us, honestly, and it makes us look
stumpy with a really full skirt.
-[Angelina] OK. -So the A-line
and the scoop net I'm all about,
and not a ton of glitter.
It's one thing to just look at wedding dresses online,
and it's another thing when you're actually in the dress
store surrounded by so many dresses.
It's definitely a little stressful.
I did tassel some of the ones
that you sent me pictures of... -OK.
that we have in the store.
-So this was one of the styles... -[Liz] One of them, yeah.
that you had liked. -Because of that neckline.
-[Angelina] Yes. -Uh-huh.
I know this bridal shop has a dress that I really like
and have had my eye on for the last two months.
And I cannot wait to try it on and hope this may be the one.
[Angelina] But what we like to do is we'll go around the store
together and kind of just look through dresses,
touch them, feel them, see what you're thinking.
And then we'll tassel them as we go before we head upstairs
and try some stuff on. -Gotcha.
-[Angelina] We'll have a good -- Yeah. -Oh [indistinct]
[Angelina] We'll have a good starting point.
I want to see Liz in...like,
a very sparkly dress,
maybe a little bit poof.
[Liz] Yeah.
[Angelina] This is like pageant dress shopping, but just
white dresses. -[Liz] Come on, Madison.
This is yours, 'cause you're going to be next after me.
I want to see Liz in something very soft and flowing
to match her personality.
[Liz] I will try this one. I'll give it --
So when a neckline is not this deep, like when it's a little
more subtle in the sweetheart, I'm OK with it.
-OK. -It's just there's some that are so plungey.
-Super plungey? -Yeah.
If I were to choose the kinda wedding dress I want
for you, I would definitely want your boobies showing.
-Boobies? -OK...no.
-[Amber] That's pretty. -[Mandy] Oh, I like that one.
-[Amber] That's pretty. -Lizzie, try that one.
-OK. -That's very pretty.
-[Liz] Yes, mom! -[Mandy] That's very pretty.
[Angelina] You have to say "Yes, mom," to two people.
-I love it. -[laughs]
This is my first time
putting a little person in a wedding dress,
which is really fun.
[Sandy] Did you see one?
This was one that Elizabeth saw online.
[Angelina] Dresses are made for all shapes and sizes,
so it's just like any other bride.
We're just putting the dress on, getting it clipped in,
hope -- hoping that she feels good in the dress.
And at the end of the day, it's just all about finding
the right fit, the right style, and the right vibe
for the wedding. -This is pretty.
Yeah, that is pretty.
Is wedding dress shopping different for little people
than it is average sized people? Absolutely.
We know no matter what, we are going to have
to make alterations.
It's not just a matter of fact, it has to be shortened.
-You know, how does it... -The waist,
the straps. -...have to be shortened?
Is it -- is it being hemmed?
Is it where you've got to somehow, you know,
detach it here and bring it up this way
so you can keep the, you know, design of the dress?
And that one's a more relaxed, like, sheath style,
so it doesn't tug too low, yeah. -Yeah.
-It's just, like, gently graces. -It's pretty.
[Amber] Every dress can be altered.
But, I mean, can it be altered to fit the individual...
and not completely change the look of the dress?
This is why I let you shop around, 'cause you'll see
things that speak to you.
-That is so pretty. -Yeah.
I just feel like I'll try that
one and call it a day. -Yeah.
-[Liz] So beautiful. -You drew that one last.
Yeah.
-I'll keep that in mind. -[Emma] That is so pretty.
[Mandy] Yeah, that's a good one.
-Oh. -[Liz] OK, I'm ready to try on now.
When it comes to shopping for me in general, I just stress
out about it because I am super picky.
And I have the typical girl like, whole body image thing
in my head. And I just can't help it.
[giggling]
[Liz] Ooh, nice.
All right.
I guess we'll start with the most basic ones first.
-[Amber] Yes. -[Liz] Yeah?
[Angelina] I'll let you. I have one in the fitting room.
-Oh, OK, never mind. -[Angelina] So I have a method
to my madness. I'm gonna try to go
in order of what I think you're gonna love the most.
Let me grab you a table, and then I'll meet you
in the fitting room, and we'll get started.
-[Emma] Nice. -[Angelina] Thank you.
Waiting to see Liz in her first wedding dress,
I'm definitely excited and...
and I'm definitely a little bit nervous because Liz
hates shopping.
[Angelina] Let's go on out, dress number one!
OK, dress number one.
-[Angelina] Yeah? -Yeah.
So you're gonna set it up right there?
[Brice] Yeah, probably.
[Trent] Let's just lay out all the material.
While Amber and Elizabeth and the girls are out wedding
dress shopping, me, Brice, and Alex are at Brice
and Elizabeth's house putting together Leighton's playground.
[Alex] Looks like a lot of wood.
I want to build this playground for Leighton,
because she loves being outside like her dad.
It's just a great thing to build for her.
[Trent] And three and four.
If we don't do this now, we'll be looking for...
stuff non-stop.
So there are, of course, a ton of pieces to put together
on this, uh...playground.
[Trent] We didn't look to see what time it was
before we started. We started ten minutes ago.
So what I thought was gonna be a small little playground
compared to some of the playgrounds we have built
for our kids, you know, we open this box,
and there's 712 pieces of wood,
and there's, like, 17,000 pieces of hardware.
Step number one, open two cold beers
and one Kool-Aid. -Oh.
Sounds nice. Guess which one you get.
The Kool-Aid.
So, I'm doing pretty good.
Allie and I have been dating for about three years now,
and things have been going smoothly between us.
I'm going to college for film.
I've made a few films in the past, and my most recent
one is a car commercial for my dad.
And I am looking forward to broadening my editing skills.
Little mama sells big houses.
Drop it online. See our inventory.
And hopefully finding some real actors for my films.
-A P1, dad? -Yes.
Right here.
That's the one we need.
[whistling music plays]
[Trent] We're on page 17, and we have to go to page 59.
This is gonna take a while.
[Brice] I even told Trent, I was like,
"Just get prepared for a long day."
-Hey, Trent. -[Trent] Hey, Brice.
Uh, these little pieces of wood, the little things were
supposed to go on the outside.
-What? -The threads.
There were a few mishaps of us putting things
in the wrong locations.
Maybe beat them out or something --
There you go.
We notice all these things, like,
"All right, that's backwards.
Dang, that one's... that one's backwards, too."
It's aggravating sometimes putting stuff together.
[Trent] We're on the two-hour mark.
We've been at this for two hours.
We most likely were doing this
because, you know, we wanted to get this done.
We were like, "All right, it's been a long time.
Let's just hurry up."
[Trent] We're on page 29.
I'll tell you what, though.
I'd rather build this thing and wipe a bull's ass
with barbed wire than go dress shopping with them girls.
[Brice] Yeah, me too.
[upbeat music plays]
OK.
-We're ready. -[Sandy] We're ready?
-[Amber] OK, dress number one. -[Angelina] Dress number one.
[all] Ooh.
Ooh.
You OK?
I can't just --
[Amber] Look at him. It's pretty.
Yeah.
Being in a wedding dress for the first time,
it's a little, I guess, shocking in the sense of,
like, this is something that, like, girls talk about
when they get into, like, middle school and high school.
And now that it's actually happening, I'm like,
"Dang, OK, it's getting real."
[uplifting music plays]
As a mom, seeing my daughter in a wedding dress
for the first time is somewhat surreal because it doesn't seem
that long ago that I wasn't chasing her around
like I'm chasing Leighton around, um...
and now here we are wedding dress shopping.
And I feel a little too princessy in this.
-[Sandy] Yeah. -[Emma] Yeah.
[Amber] I definitely think it is too princessy.
I do like the neckline -- -Or the scoop.
-Yeah. -[Sandy] It's very flattering.
I'm not even sure that I like how thick the straps are.
[Sandy] Yeah, they're a little thick.
Very broad shouldered.
[Emma] Yeah, because she's very broad shoulder.
-[Amber] Yeah. -[Liz] I like how poofy the skirt is,
not super poofy. And I like this,
but not the basket.
-Yeah. -Yeah.
Like, you're literally pointing to...
First of all, you can immediately tell
that Elizabeth is not comfortable in it.
Um...the fact that it kind of goes
to a wink down to her...
-Coochie. -Coochie.
It's -- it's just not flattering.
What do you not like?
-Yeah. -Yeah.
It's like, you may just go
in like that, like, just -- [high-pitched sound]
Just don't -- that thing -- for your belly area.
-The basque waist, not a thing? -[Emma] No, we're past the belly.
That's not really your style.
I think, next.
-Yeah, next. -Next, next.
I'm definitely disappointed
that dress number one was totally a bust,
but we're gonna keep going.
All right. On to dress number two.
[Sandy] Nope, that wasn't it.
♪ Get up, get set, let's go, yeah ♪
♪ You make me happy, so happy ♪
♪ Ooh, na, na, na, na, na ♪
[Liz] Mandy, this one's yours.
[Mandy] Ohh, very sparkly.
Definitely sparkles.
Now, this is the square neckline with the skinny
straps, like we were talking about. -Yeah.
Yeah.
So I do think we like skinny straps.
It's very flattering at the waist down.
-[Liz] Good. -[Sandy] Very flattering, yeah.
This is my favorite dress. I really did like it.
It was a little sparkly for what she likes, but I thought
it was a beautiful dress.
[Mandy] Oh, pockets.
-Pockets? -[Mandy] I love a good pocket.
I love the pockets, the sparkles.
-Yes. -[Mandy] Yes.
I'm team sparkle, and it looks really good.
Waist is good. Girls are good.
Everything's good.
[Mandy] I kinda picked this dress,
but I didn't do good. I don't like it.
[Sandy] I'm just not sure it's the one.
-Yeah, the dress is -- -I feel a little promy.
When it's too much sparkle, I just feel like it's such
a prom dress.
A dress that's too glittery to me just makes it feel more like
a prom, a formal, like an evening gown.
I need it to feel like a wedding gown.
-Maybe not the sparkles. -I'm not super sparkly.
-[Sandy] I wouldn't wear that. -Yeah, this would be, yeah.
I would wear that. That is pretty.
-And the pockets... -And the pockets.
Oh, my gosh!
Working with Liz feels totally natural.
It doesn't feel like I'm doing anything different,
because I normally don't try to put a silhouette in my mind
when the bride walks in the door,
because the most important thing to me
is that the bride feels good in the silhouette.
So just making sure she feels special, making sure she feels
beautiful, and making sure she feels confident before
we open up the curtain and let her walk out.
But it's not terrible, but still not --
[Sandy] No, it's not.
There's some very flattering things about it on you.
-I do I like the strap a lot. -[Sandy] Yep.
I love the skinny strap. I love the neckline.
Truthfully, as a mom, I just want her to...
be, like, confident.
Even if she doesn't like the style.
But just, you know, be, like, confident and not...um...
get discouraged.
I will say we are getting better,
closer. -[Angelina] That's the goal.
-I'm trying to ramp up. -Yeah.
-All right. -[Angelina] You got it?
[Liz] Oh, this is the one I picked.
[Angelina] Yes.
This is one that you sent me a picture of.
[Trent] Something's fishy.
[Brice] Like, smells like fish?
[sniffs] No.
We have moved this board four times.
We're about to move it for the fifth.
[Alex] Uh-oh, [bleep].
[Trent] Let me have it for a minute, sorry.
So there is one board that got put in the wrong place or put
on backwards, and it definitely causes some, uh...
errors in the construction of this playground.
And all of those have to loosen up.
[Alex] What?
That board has to go over there.
And all these have to slide forward.
Which, when you have something in the wrong place,
the rest of the wood is not gonna be correct.
Which we have to pray over, since it's a child's playground.
All right.
-[drilling] -Ow, ow, [bleep].
-[Brice] You all right? -[bleep]
Son of a bitch, [bleep] That hurt.
-Did you see what I did? -Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I had a reversal drill.
You pinched your finger between the drill
and the wood. -[bleep]
Yeah, no, that looked painful.
I, uh, jammed my thumb
between the screw and the top of the drill and the top
railing on one of the boards.
[bleep]
And I was like, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
You have to put the drill in reverse to take your thumb out.
[Brice] That's nice. We ain't got many pieces left.
[Trent] Don't drop it on me. Here, right here.
Has Elizabeth ever told you about our wedding?
We had like 300 people at our wedding.
The actual wedding planning, it really wasn't that bad.
[Brice] So how did you propose to Amber?
[Trent] Amber planned the whole thing.
[Brice snickers]
I came to Trent's parents' house one day,
and I was like, "You know what?
"If we're not going to move forward to the next phase
in life, and that's getting married, then I'm out of here."
So I waited about a week, and I bought her a ring
and asked her to marry me.
[grunts]
-Oh, [bleep]. -Got it.
Oh, I heard that.
You proposed. You did not get -- you did not
have some special thing on... -Oh, no.
and get down on one knee. -No, I didn't --
I didn't hire airplanes and parachutes and spotlights.
-No. -And, you know,
ask the sea turtles to come out of the ocean
to everybody gather around and why I proposed.
-I don't -- uh-uh. -No.
We actually, we went to dinner. We went out to eat.
I don't think that was part of, like, the planned proposal.
We just happened to go out to eat
after that happened. -We were hungry.
It wasn't a celebration. We were just hungry.
And we had about $17 or something, so we went
to Waffle House or something. Who knows?
[Trent] Brice.
-Sir. -You love me?
I do.
Glad to be joining y'all's family soon.
[Trent] We're glad to have you, Brice.
Even if we choose the hottest day in the year
to put swing sets together.
[upbeat music plays]
So this is the dress that I had on my phone
for a couple of months, the one that I've seen in their shop.
And I'm really excited to try it on 'cause I really think
this may be the one.
-[Amber] Oh. -[Madison] Oh, wow.
-That's what I said too. -Yeah.
♪♪
-I'm glad you're trying it on. -Yeah.
'Cause this is the dress that she has had on her phone for,
like, two months. -[Liz] Yes.
[Amber] This is what she sent.
Well, I can tell you're not --
I didn't realize how springy looking it would be.
-[Amber] Yeah. -[Emma] Yeah.
-Spring or fall. -[Emma] Yeah.
I did, like, the photo, it made me just, but now seeing it,
I'm just kind of like, "Oh, man."
So this dress is the dress that Elizabeth has had,
like, on her phone for a long time, um,
and, you know, she kind of had her heart set on it.
But...um...I'm not -- I'm not feeling it.
Or if I was, like, inside, seeing as I'm outside.
[Emma] Yeah.
I think from the waist up, it looks really, really good.
It flatters her very well.
The bottom is not my personal favorite.
-[Liz] But it's very pretty. -[Sandy] It's a beautiful dress.
I like it. This was great.
[Amber] Yeah. That, that does -- I agree.
[Sandy] That top is very flattering, yeah.
The dress that I thought I loved turned out
to be not the one that I loved.
And I'm pretty bummed, because I even showed mom
a picture of this dress too.
And she was like, "Oh yeah,
"this seems like very your style.
"Let's hope that they have it.
Definitely put it on your list."
And I put it on and look at myself and I'm like,
"Nope, this isn't the one."
And then seeing my mom's reaction,
because since she knew this was the one dress,
she was kinda like,
"I could see the bummed out look on her face too."
Like, "Dang," 'cause it just wasn't me.
It's a good thing that you tried it on.
Yeah, I know, it's very pretty.
I like that it's not the traditional lace.
And I love the neckline. This is great.
-And I can breathe. -[Amber] Yeah.
Without feeling like I'm about to pop a button.
But I don't know if it necessarily --
It is a little disappointing when you really think,
like, you're absolutely gonna love,
like, you know, any piece of clothing.
Like, you think that it's going to work out and it's going to
look great, and then it ends up not being the one.
And so it's kinda like you're back to square one.
[Angelina] What I normally say we do at this point
is I tell you, "Take a break,"
and I'm gonna see if there's anything
that I just think you should try.
-Yeah. -Right.
-Let her go... -[Angelina] Yes.
-Take a break. -...look at stuff...
[Angelina] Break time.
♪ I need waves and the sun ♪
♪ And a bunch of pretty girls on the beach ♪
♪ if they got friends that like fun ♪
♪Tell them come through sweet like peaches ♪
I think we're done. Looks pretty good.
[Brice] Our work pays off.
[Alex] Yeah, I tell you what, we did a really good job.
I appreciate y'all's help. Let's go check it out.
So when Leighton came home from my parents' house,
I was very excited to show her, her brand-new swing set.
Look at your playground. What you think, girl?
-[Leighton babbling] -[Trent] Ooh.
She was very quiet at first,
but I can tell that, you know, she was also excited.
[Trent] Hey, big girl, aww.
What do you think?
Say, "Daddy, you did a good job building this thing."
[Alex] Yeah, he did.
[Trent] And there's a butterfly still flying around.
-Look at that butterfly. -[Alex] Wow.
She knew you was coming out here,
and she wanted to see you.
[Alex] Dad, the butterfly's on the back of your hat.
-[Trent] Is it really? -[Alex] Yeah.
-[Trent] Landed? -[Alex] Yeah.
Well, it just got up, but now it's moved ahead.
But yeah, it was for a minute.
So right at the end, when Leighton was enjoying
the swing and the playground, we had this little butterfly
that just flying around, sticking with us.
It was just kinda like a little omen.
It was like, "Hey, welcome to your yard." Leighton,
welcome to this special little place for you.
I'm gonna be here every day to see you."
Oh, butterfly, right?
So I tried on a few more dresses, and they just
were not it.
I was not getting the bridal feeling, the,
"Yep, this is the one." Nope.
I was just like, [bleep] "Hit the fan.
Here we go, I was right."
Dress shopping is gonna suck.
So I think it's, you know, time to call it a day,
and we'll find another dress shop.
[Angelina] All right.
[Amber] Ready to get dressed?
-[Emma] Are you done? -Yeah.
[Amber] You done?
[Liz] It's all done.
[Amber] I don't really think I'm feeling bad, but I don't think
it's really necessary to keep trying dresses on at this spot
and on this day.
[Angelina] All ri -- OK.
-[clicks tongue] Oh. -I know.
Dress shopping didn't go, you know, as well as I'd hoped,
but I still have a surprise in store.
OK.
-Maddy, come here. -Oh.
So, I have a big question to ask you.
We have talked about this forever since we were kids.
Don't start crying because you're gonna make
me start crying. -No, I'm getting nervous.
-OK. -But I would love for you,
since we have literally really been through our life together.
You really are gonna make me cry, um --
It's just amazing to me because she has watched me
go through um, my entire life from, you know,
she remembered when Brice and I were dating
and then, you know, telling her to become my godmama.
And then here I am with my daughter.
And then now I'm engaged
and we're wedding dress shopping.
You've been my best friend since forever.
And there's nobody else that I would love to have the honor
to be my of honor, didn't you? -Mm-hmm.
[Liz] Because you're like another sister.
-So would you be my maid-of-honor? -Oh.
-So this is for you. -Don't cry, just be happy.
I got pretty emotional when asking Madison when I'm sitting
there in front of her because, I mean, we would --
we would talk about, you know, our weddings
when we were in our younger teens.
And it really is, there's not a lot of friendships like ours.
And there's no other person that I would rather
have be my maid-of-honor than Madison.
Thank you. Yeah, you can open it.
[gasps]
-No way. -Mm-hmm.
Just all the little gadgets and gizmos, and I have some
jewelry that I would like for all of my bridesmaids to wear,
but it's a mirror and, like, a little candle
and glasses and flowers. -Of course.
[Liz] Yeah.
Thank you.
So that's for you. No problem.
But I love you, and I absolutely am thankful
to have you. -Of course I'll be your bride --
-Or maid-of-honor, yeah. -Maid-of-honor.
Yeah, maid-of-honor.
To be Liz's maid-of-honor, for me, seriously, it feels
like she trusts me to fulfill those duties to help her make
the most of her big day, so I feel like I'm very, very happy,
and I can't wait for it.
[Liz] I appreciate all your help.
Absolutely. It was so much fun.
It was so nice to meet everyone.
I'm so glad you guys came out.
Feeling a little discouraged because, I mean,
it just sucks after trying lots of white on,
and none of the white works.
-Thank you so much. -Yes, absolutely.
-I'm so glad you guys all came. It was so nice to meet everyone. -Thank you.
I'm a little on edge because at the end of the day,
we are very
little on time for me to dress shop and to find a dress.
So it's kind of like within this week.
I need to find one.
[tense violin plays]