I saved my 1st kiss for marriage -I got tempted, but my man said it’d get in the way of us getting to know each other

Published on July 26, 2025 at 03:55 PM
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A WOMAN has revealed that she and her husband saved their first kiss until they were married.

Lydia Plath, 21, became besotted with Zac Wyse as soon as they met, but the couple didn’t lock lips until they wed six months later.

Lydia and Zack from the TV show *Welcome to Plathville*.Lydia and Zac saved their first kiss until marriageLydia and Zack from the TV show *Welcome to Plathville*.The couple wed after six months of dating

Appearing on series seven of TLC reality series , which follows Lydia and her family and was filmed before the couple wed, a producer on the show asked her what her first kiss was like.

“It hasn’t happened yet”, she responded.

“He has committed, and I guess now I have committed to saving our first kiss for our wedding day.”

Zac revealed that he had wanted to save the kiss as he didn’t want it to “get in the way of really getting to know someone.”

He explained that he had shared his reasoning with Lydia, who then revealed that she too had “always wanted that.”

“There are moments where it can be tempting, but I think self-control is just a way that we can represent to Lord together”, Zac said.

He added that instead of kissing, the couple do other stuff like “climbing trees”, and “skipping” and “dancing”.

“It’s better than kissing really”.

However, Lydia then shot back: “I think it’s safe to say that we’re both looking forward to our first kiss.”

The lovebirds, from Georgia, USA, got engaged in December 2024, after three months of , and then tied the knot three months after that.

The pair, who met at a church in , said that they don’t believe that the purpose of dating is to mess around and “pursue our hearts desire”.

Instead, they dated with the purpose of , and said that their promise not to kiss until marriage made things “exciting”.

Following their wedding day, Zac told People : “The discipline it has taken to save our first kiss for the wedding day is an example of the commitment we have for each other going into our marriage.”

And the couple aren’t the only ones who have chosen to save their first kiss for their big day.

, both 21,are also holding off on kissing until after they’ve.

The younghave been together for four years and got engaged last October.

Posting a TikTok video of the proposal, Kaytlin ( @kaytlin.oneall ) referenced their plans to avoid locking lips until they.

“Disclaimer!!! You don’t have to kiss to get a ring,” she captioned the clip.

She explained that they were inspired by theirbeliefs to abstain from any form of physical intimacy.

“It is truly because we have felt this conviction from the Lord,” Kaytlin explained.

“Your flesh is always going to want to make the wrong choice.”

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