Welcome to Plathville’s Lydia Plath and Zac Wyse Reveal the Real Reason They Got Married 6 Months After Meeting

Lydia Plath and Zac Wyse are opening up about their decision to jump into marriage shortly after meeting.

In the season 7 premiere of Welcome to Plathville, Lydia’s dad, Barry Plath, quickly gave his blessing when Zac asked for her hand in marriage. While the pair had only known each other for three months at the time, Zac revealed that they had no intention of slowing down when it came to making things official.

“So I’m planning on proposing in two weeks,” Zac shared. “Actually, the wedding day is gonna be in three months.”

“Are you crazy?” Barry declared, to which Zac quipped, “Maybe a little.”

Admitting that it was “really shocking” to hear this news, Barry wondered about the reasoning behind “the accelerated timeline.”

“Lydia has a plan to go to Germany, and she wanted to go on this mission trip,” Zac explained. “And so, one, I wanted to go, and I brought it up to her, and then she was like, ‘Yeah, you’re going.’ It was more an idea on my side, and she was like, ‘I’d absolutely love for you to go.’”

“Then we kind of got to the conversation of, ‘Okay, are we going to Germany married or engaged?’” he continued. “And as we asked that question, everything kind of came together to happen before we went to Germany.”

The family patriarch called the plan “more than a whirlwind” but said he understood where the young couple was coming from because of his own past with his now ex-wife (and Lydia’s mother), Kim Plath.

“This is a huge decision — till death do we part — that’s major,” he acknowledged, adding, “In my mind, I’m like, well, there might be some value in taking more time, but I was in that same boat. Kim and I were together a little over three months before getting engaged, and so I completely can empathize with their timeline.”

When Zac went to tell Lydia that Barry approved, she confessed that she was “relieved” to know he was supportive of their relationship.

“It gives me a ton of peace knowing that my dad has peace as well,” she said.

“I’m very proud of you,” Barry told his daughter as he reached for a hug. “I’m just really excited. My little girl, she’s all grown up.”

Moments later, Lydia’s older brother Ethan Plath arrived, and he wasn’t as enthusiastic to hear that his sister was going to be tying the knot with someone she had been dating for only six months on the wedding day.

“It doesn’t make sense,” he said in his confessional. “I get that he makes her happy, that’s obvious, but it is pretty quick.”

Ethan joked that Zac and Lydia were having “a shotgun wedding.”

After Lydia searched the meaning of “shotgun wedding” online, she clarified that she was not pregnant or being forced to get married and went on to reminisce over how the pair met.

“I was in Colorado, went to this church, got invited to Young Adults and then we ended up next to each other,” she recalled.

“And then I asked you out,” Zac chimed in as Lydia continued. “So we went hiking, and then went hiking again.”

“You’re above 13,000 feet for like seven hours, and so that kind of started our journey,” he laughed.

The pair ultimately got married in February in a ceremony at the Plath family farm in Georgia, where they shared their first-ever kiss.

They told PEOPLE at the time that they wanted their wedding to be “an example of the love Jesus has for the church,” and cited the Bible verse Ephesians 5:25 as a passage they want to live by.

“We envisioned a time to celebrate our union with our close communities coming together,” Zac said. “Neither of us wanted to get caught up in the details we won’t remember for the years to come. So we’ve tried to keep our focus on what our purpose for this day is, our union before God, our friends, and family.”

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Welcome to Plathville airs on Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET on TLC.