Recap: Headed to the Altar

Brandon and Michaella met at a homeschool conference. Michaella prayed from the moment that she met Brandon that she could be his wife.
Back in September 2014, Michaella headed to Texas to surprised Brandon with a visit. The couple had decided to wait to hold hands until their engagement. 
In November 2014, Brandon heads to the family home to get to know Michaella's family. They head up to visit family members for Thanksgiving.
Just 3 months later, Brandon takes Michaella's sisters (Tori, Carlin and Josie) to look for a ring for Michaella but decides to design a ring himself for her.
The boys decide to take Brandon out for Bowling. Michaella thinks that it is sweet that her brothers care for her that much.
Just one month later, Gil and Kelly meet up with Brandon's parents in Chicago with Brandon and Michaella. They have a great time and Brandon asked Gil if he could ask Michaella to marry him.
Brandon arranges Michaella to come and see him in DC where the engagement happens on April 13th!
As the wedding is about to start, Brandon and Michaella have only been engaged for four months and the family is finding it hard to see Michaella get married and move to Chicago.

***** There will be no trivia questions this week! *****

Nervous Bride?

This week's episode of Bringing Up Bates, Erin asked her sister (Michaella) if she was nervous about her wedding. 

The Bride said no that she is not nervous.

Be sure to watch the new episode of Bringing Up Bates, we will be posting our recap and trivia questions later tonight! :) 

Recap: The Quest for the Dress

Michaella has so much to do on her list before the wedding. Both Michaella and Kelly headed over to meet with Aunt Kim to talk about the flowers for the wedding. Kim owns a flower shop Gallery Florist which is located in Mebane, North Carolina. She has done flowers for Kelly, Zach, Erin, Alyssa and now Michaella’s wedding. Michaella would like the flower cherry blossoms but since they aren’t in the season, she has to settle for silk flowers.

Kelly’s mom adopted two daughters. One of the girls, Beth, are due to be married about a month before Michaella so the girls meet up with the family to head to the wedding shower. Michaella and Beth are only a year apart in age and are close friends.

During the shower, the guest divide into teams to make a toilet paper wedding dress. Gil decides that he wants to gather all the leftover toilet paper to take home so they could save money.

Chad and Erin are heading to get Carson’s newborn photos done. Nathan did not know that anyone would want to take photos of new babies but when they want to take the clothes off and put them in a bucket or something.

Michaella gathers all of the girls to head to White Lace and Promises to find the prefect dress for the big day. Michaella wants a simple gown that makes her look skinny and has a train and sleeves.

Michaella is surprised by how many dresses there. Josie reveals that they are not scared to say what they think however Whitney doesn’t do that. Whitney knows that it’s good to be honest but you have to do it in a loving way.

Tori and Carlin are the family biggest critics. Michaella starts to feel discourage right after trying on a bunch of dress. She started to think that they should have elope or have a small wedding.

Michaella finally finds the right dress but the dress needs a lot of work. They have to remove the poof and add capped sleeves but everyone agrees that the dress is her.

With all the changes, it will cost nearly $2,000 which is over the budget that Brandon and Michaella set aside for their wedding. She decides to pray about the cost and then make the final choice in a few days.

Say Yes to the Dress photos!

Bates Wedding weekend photos!

Carlin, Jana, Michaella, Joy Anna

Chad and Allie

Michaella and Erin

Erin, Carson, Jill, Israel

One day until Wedding!

By this time tomorrow Brandon and Michaella will be walking down the aisle as husband and wife.

Bridal Shower

Michaella received her bridal shower a few weeks ago on Sunday. One of the family friends posted these photos online

Photo credit: Tim and Franicia
 

Bathroom Battles

Michaella and Alyssa sat down to talk about the bathroom issues that they had growing up.

Moving away?

Michaella is moving right after she gets married to another state. She will be the second Bates child to move out of state.

Jack and Jules!

 Erin, Michaella and Tori headed to Jack and Jules with their little brother, Jeb.

Erin and Michaella on youtube!

Just a few days before Chad and Erin announced that they were expecting their first child due later this year. We found this clip of Erin with one of her friends. We hope that you like it!

Here is a sweet interview of Michaella talking about when she and Brendon will get engaged Michaella's interview

Michaella turns 25!

Michaella is celebrating her 25th birthday today!

Michaella engaged???

We have been getting this a lot and I wanted to get the answer but we haven't heard anything yet about another engagement. So right now our answer is that she's not engaged yet. We will be updating it if it changes.

Brandon and Michaella's third month!

It's crazy that they have been courting for three months and counting.

Brandon and Michael's second month of courting

Brandon and Michael have been courting for two months. Their relationship is going good.

Brandon and Michael's first month courting

Brandon and Michael have been courting for a month to date. Now most months are going to be a little off since months have 28 days and 30 days.

Michaella turns another year older!

Michael Christan "Michaella" is turning 24 years old today

Courting news!

The Bates just welcomed Chad Paine and Whitney Bates into their family forever well the family just announced that their oldest daughter Michaella just entered a courtship of her own with Brandon. The Bates daughter Alyssa is in a courtship with John.

We will keep you update with news!

Happy 23rd Birthday

Today is Michaella's 23 birthday!

New Bates Photos

                               The Bates recently posted some recent photos on their blog. All photos below are used with Gil & Kelly Bates permission. Click here to view their blog/website.