Last night as a Duggar

Jessa is enjoying her last night as a Duggar. Tomorrow she will be a Seewald for the rest of her life!

Jessa is changing a lot of things this weekend. She will be moving out for the first time and into her first home with Ben. She will be getting married for the first and hopefully the last time. She will be celebrating her birthday for the first time as a married woman. She is going to her honeymoon

More about Ben Seewald!

People maganize did an interview with Ben's parents Michael and Guinn right after the engagment news was revealed.
"When Michael and I had Ben, he was a great baby, but he was a real handful as a toddler," Guinn, 40, told PEOPLE. "He was very adventurous. He was a very opinionated kid."

Ben is the oldest child of Michael and Guinn. He has six youner siblings.

"He is mature and always has been," his father, Michael, 39, said. "We have tried to treat him like an adult growing up. He did kid things, but with adulthood in view. He has had that his whole life."

"He is ... doing well," Guinn said. "He is handling a full plate right now."
Like her brother and sister, Ben and Jessa decided to wait to hold hands until they were engaged.

"There is nothing in the Bible that says 'thou shalt court,' " Guinn said. "But we have raised our kids to know that someone else's heart is like a treasure, and you want to be careful with that other person and treat them with great respect. There is no perfect pattern. Treat other people as a gift. Honor God and your relationship."

"Jessa and I found out that Jill and Derick were bribing the younger Duggar kids with Skittles payment to be chaperones for them," Ben told PEOPLE this summer. "We had no idea that's why they had such an easier time of getting chaperones."

"How many kids they have is Ben and Jessa's decision, and they can figure that out," Michael said.

"I was the same age as Ben when I was going through the same thing," Michael said. "For me, it helped to mature me. A committed relationship does a lot to mature a young man. It does make them grow up a little bit. I can see that happening to Ben already."  People asked Michael and Guinn what they feel about Jessa who will be marrying into the family

Baby talk

With planning their wedding, Ben and Jessa are talking about babies!
"Whatever God's plan is, we’d be good with that!" Duggar told ABC News, when asked how many babies they'd like to have. "It's probably not possible for me to have 19 kids naturally, but we might adopt and get up to that number."

Duggar, 21, recently announced that she and Seewald, 19, hoped to be wed before the year was out. The planning will be featured on her family's reality TV show, "19 Kids & Counting," which premieres Sept. 2 on TLC, as well the baby talk -- not that they're letting it get to them just yet.

"We both love kids," she said. "We'll play it by wear as we go along. We’ll see how it goes!"

Ben and Jessa's engagment photos!

The first kiss jitters

Like her brother and sister who waited for their wedding date to have their first kiss, Jessa and Ben are waiting for their big day to have their first kiss.

In a recent interview to ABC News, Jessa revealed that "We're really looking forward to their first kiss.We're talking about it -- what if we miss or mess up? We're gonna have to plan this out or something!"

Jessa revealed her engagment to Ben early this month and will be the new season that starts next week.

"The guest list is pretty big, but not as big as my sisters" she said. "My list is a little smaller [than Jill's was], but then Ben’s guest list is bigger Derick's. It will be another Duggar-sized wedding!"

They are currently planning their color scheme and bridesmaid and groomsmen.

Ben and Jessa have decided to re-use Jill's decoration and flower girl dresses to save money.

"We’re gonna go really simple with a lot of our food and even flowers and that type of stuff. People spend so much on flowers, it’s outrageous!" Jessa said. "I'll go to the grocery and buy flowers! I don’t know how many flowers we'll have in nature if it's cold outside but I was like, 'How about we just go pick [some]?'"

"We want to have a nice wedding that everyone will enjoy but at the same time, we’d like to push our budget more toward our honeymoon because that’s our time together," added Ben, who said that TLC will also document some of their getaway. "That’s our first few weeks together."

Ben Seewald moves into the Duggar guest house!

The Duggars have a new person living in their house well their guest house.

"He moved up here a few weeks ago," Jim Bob, 49, tells PEOPLE exclusively. "It has been really good. He has been able to spend a lot more time with Jessa and our family. We have a guesthouse in front of our house, with a shower and everything, separate from the main house."

　

Ben even works for Jessa's father while he keeps doing his college classes


"I'm very excited that Ben is moving in today," Jessa says in the clip. "I think it will be awesome to get to spend more time with Ben and see him on a daily basis instead of once or twice a month."

"Ben was living four hours away in Hot Springs with his parents," Jim Bob says. "After Michelle and I were talking about it, we have so many projects to do that we need help for – everything from construction projects to keeping the grass mowed to putting roof on a building, paperwork and things like that – and we asked him if he would be interested in moving up here so that Jessa and his relationship could be really accelerated. He was all for it and his parents were happy about it."
Chaperones?

"They always have a chaperone," Jim Bob explains. "It has just worked out great. It is a little more labor intensive for Dad – we did set a curfew. By midnight, every night, we need to make sure everybody is back in their place. Jessa and Ben have set up their own courtship standards. They did not hold hands until they got engaged. After they got engaged, they started holding hands. Just like Jill and Derick, they will be saving their first kiss for their wedding day.

Love and affection

Derick and Jill also gave their feelings about Ben moving into the family home.

"You're human, and the physical side is there for a reason," Derick says in the clip. "Naturally, it is going to be difficult if you try to refrain from that."

"Any time you are in love and are together, you realize you want to show your love and affection," she says in the clip. "But when you have purposed to keep those protections in your life, you have to remember and have that accountability." Michelle told People. 

Who is Jennifer and James's buddy?!

Now that Jill got married in June, we have been asked many times about who is Jennifer and James's buddy. Joy Anna took over the role of being the buddy for her younger siblings. Now that Jessa and Ben are getting married in November and that means that Jessa's buddy team will have the next oldest one take over the role of lead buddy.

Ben and Jessa's engagment photos

Jessa's instragam has been posting engagement photos. There is no word on their wedding website being put up yet. Their wedding date has been fixed from October 1st to November 1st!

Wedding date is announced!!

Ben and Jessa have set their wedding date for November 1st!

Ben and Jessa's engagment journey

Ben had a lot of things planned for his big day with Jessa Duggar. He asked Jim Bob if he could married his daughter.

"A few days before, he had given me a rose and asked me out on a date for the next night," Jessa, 21, tells PEOPLE. "But that night we had gone out with his parents and my parents. It was a surprise because I didn't know his parents were in town. But that night he gave me a box."

Inside the box was an iPad with a video Ben, 19, had recorded, telling her, "This is the first clue to the rest of your life."

"I had done a few things to throw her off track," Seewald tells PEOPLE. "Jessa is really good at figuring things out and I wanted to surprise her."

Ben insited the help of John David to take Jessa and Jinger to Eureka Springs. Jessa went to the golf course, park, trolley ride, train ride, and ended in Thorncrown Chapel where Ben was waiting.

"I walked in and he was standing there at the front," Jessa says. "I could barely talk. I knew he was going to propose. I cried."

Now that Jessa and Ben are engaged, they are busy planning their wedding and it's going to easy since the family are using Jill's decorations. They are planning to use the saved money for their honeymoon.

Both sides of the family are celebrating the engagement

"Michael and I could not be more thrilled for Ben and Jessa," Seewald's mom, Guinn, tells PEOPLE. "Having similar goals and interests, they balance and complement one another beautifully. We praise God for the blessing of this relationship between Ben and Jessa."

"Ben asked me about asking Jessa to get engaged," Jim Bob tells PEOPLE. "We had already talked to Jessa about this and was 100 percent on board. I told him that Michelle and I were in agreement and supportive."

Jessa's ring!!!!

We finally got a shot of Jessa's engagement ring! We are so excited to show you all.

Having lunch with mom!

Jessa and Michelle decided that they wanted to take a moment and have lunch together. Jessa was the first daughter to enter a courtship back on September 9, 2013. She's about to celebrate her first year with Ben in a few weeks.

Jessa and Jill

Jill Dillard and Jessa Duggar are enjoying some sister time by having lunch and chatting about their relationships.

There is a rumor that Jessa will have a wedding here in the future