{"id":21889,"date":"2025-10-26T14:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T14:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/21889\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T14:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T14:49:07","slug":"texas-couple-waited-to-kiss-until-their-wedding-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/21889\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas couple waited to kiss until their wedding day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They couldn\u2019t wait to hear, \u201cYou may now kiss the bride.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Best friends turned newlyweds held out on having their first kiss until their <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/24\/lifestyle\/mom-bribes-daughters-with-35000-to-not-have-a-wedding\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wedding day <\/a>\u2014 that took place earlier this month \u2014 and they don\u2019t regret it one bit.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas couple made a personal decision to wait for marriage to do anything intimate together.  Instagram\/@kaytlin.v.brown<\/p>\n<p>Kaytlin and Drew Brown are non-denominational Christians, meaning they identify with Christianity but not necessarily a specific branch of it. So when they started dating in early 2021, they both decided that they\u2019d wait until <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/18\/lifestyle\/nyc-bride-basks-in-dream-wedding-at-grand-central-the-iconic-hubs-first-in-more-than-a-decade-the-best-party-ever\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">marriage<\/a> to do any sort of hanky panky-ish things together, including kissing. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor us personally, we knew our top love language was physical touch, and in knowing that we wanted to be wise in our approach to boundaries,\u201d Kaytlin told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/lifestyle\/love-sex\/article-15221523\/couple-waited-kiss-wedding-backlash.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Daily Mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old told the outlet that she and Drew felt that \u201ckissing could be a gateway that leads to physical intimacy,\u201d so they swore to never sneak a smooch before they walked down the aisle together.<\/p>\n<p>The duo went as far as never being alone in the house together, so they were never tempted to jump each other\u2019s bones. <\/p>\n<p>Well, leave it to the judging naysayers of the world and the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/27\/ive-been-with-my-boyfriend-for-years-and-weve-never-kissed\/#!\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">internet to have thoughts and opinions on this Texas couple\u2019s personal decision<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The couple\u2019s relationship blossomed from best friends to something more. Instagram\/@kaytlin.v.brown<\/p>\n<p>Kaytlin has been an open book on social media about the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/27\/ive-been-with-my-boyfriend-for-years-and-weve-never-kissed\/#!\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">couple\u2019s traditional decision<\/a>, so with that came online comments from people in disbelief, saying she must have a lot of \u201cself-control\u201d and trying to tell her that kissing isn\u2019t \u201cthe end of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBro fighting for his life rn,\u201d commented someone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGirl that is your FRIEND of two years,\u201d quipped another.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t understand how you can be in a relationship without any romance. Like what makes your partner stand out from your friends?\u201d questioned another naysayer. <\/p>\n<p>The duo said the crowd cheered and applauded so loudly when they finally shared their first kiss. Instagram\/@kaytlin.v.brown<\/p>\n<p>Yet, when the Brown\u2019s finally said their \u201cI Do\u2019s\u201d and kissed, the crowd of family and loved ones erupted into a loud cheer and applause \u2014 making the day the best one of the couple\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur wedding day was truly magical.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They couldn\u2019t wait to hear, \u201cYou may now kiss the bride.\u201d Best friends turned newlyweds held out on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[16137,242,16138,16136,27,29,28,16139],"class_list":{"0":"post-21889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-dating-advice","9":"tag-lifestyle","10":"tag-marriage","11":"tag-sex-relationships","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-texas-headlines","14":"tag-texas-news","15":"tag-weddings"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}