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- In the Sept. 16 episode of Welcome to Plathville, Lydia Plath married Zac Wyse against her family’s pushback
- The couple did not have the pastor ask for objections at the ceremony after her brothers, Ethan and Isaac, considered objecting
- Ethan previously expressed frustration with the fast pace of the relationship and raised concern that Zac might be gay, which he has consistently denied
Lydia Plath and Zac Wyse are taking matters into their own hands.
The couple tied the knot in the Sept. 16 episode of Welcome to Plathville, despite strong opposition from several members of the Plath family. After a tense confrontation the night prior to the wedding, Lydia and Zac decided not to give anyone a chance to intervene at the ceremony.
“I was waiting for that all the way up until it was clear they weren’t going to say, ‘Does anyone object?’” her brother Micah said. “Because I knew Ethan and probably Isaac, and I don’t know if I would have, but it never happened, so I didn’t have to.”
At the rehearsal the day before, Ethan stormed out after claiming Zac and Lydia were moving too quickly in their relationship and speculating that Zac might be gay.
“Yesterday, when I took off out of there, there was just a lot of pent-up frustration inside of me for how everything was going — the wedding being so quick, [Micah’s girlfriend] Veronica being there,” Ethan explained. “I just couldn’t take it anymore.”
Later that night, Ethan, Isaac and their mom, Kim, decided to make one last effort to express their concerns to Lydia privately, but Ethan grew more upset when she brought their dad, Barry, with her.
“I told Zac to wait outside because we were going to have a conversation with Lydia,” Ethan noted, adding that Zac returned 20 minutes later, asking to be a part of the conversation. “I said, Zac, we’re going to finish our conversation with Lydia and then, when we’re done, I’ll come get you and all of us talk.”
Kim said that Zac refused to leave, and that’s when things “got a little dramatic.”
“I don’t want to share all the details from the conversation, but Ethan couldn’t get over the fact that he thinks Zac is gay,” Lydia shared. “I can understand where they’re coming from. They have concerns. There’s definitely going to be things to work through with my brothers after this, but not for the day of.”
While Ethan insisted that he doesn’t “judge anybody” for their sexuality — despite the fact that “some people may not believe me” — he said he would be sad to see Lydia and Zac go through a life without being able to do what they want sexually.
“I hope that they have many, many years of passionate sex with desire strong on both ends,” Ethan continued. “But as her older brother trying to look out for her, I don’t want Lydia to get hurt. I don’t want her to rush into something that she may regret later.”
Isaac added that he thought it was important to talk to Lydia without Zac there because when they are together, “Zac just won’t let her talk and he speaks up.”
“As things keep progressing and it gets closer and closer than the wedding, you know, tensions are very high,” Ethan went on to acknowledge. “There’s a lot of unexpressed emotions and feelings, and it’s all a combination of Zac and his behavior over the last few weeks and the time, speed of how fast things are moving. It’s just a lot to take.”
Ethan further admitted that he was planning to object to the wedding, but he finally realized Lydia wasn’t going to change her mind.
“I was going to object,” he later said. “But we talked to Lydia and I kind of felt like that was the most mature way to go about an objection instead of saying it at the wedding, and then it turns out during the ceremony they left that out.”
“Honestly, if we were going to try to stop the wedding, we would have done it before,” Isaac noted.
In a confessional, Zac slammed Ethan and Isaac for having a “lack of any respect” for him and Lydia. “There was no progress made,” he said. “There is damage in the relationship between their sister Lydia, and then, me.”
“Going forward, we’re hoping for some sort of apology,” Zac added. “What that looks like, we don’t know. As for today, we’re choosing to enjoy every moment because that’s what this day is for.”
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Welcome to Plathville airs on Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET on TLC.
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