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"Anywhere is paradise when you&amp;apos;re with the one you love. Well, almost anywhere. Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar have always prided themselves on living a modest existence, even before they had the first of their 19 children. After their small, simple wedding 30 years ago&amp;#x2014;think folding chairs and crepe paper&amp;#x2014;the 19 Kids and Counting stars embarked on a &amp;quot;budget&amp;quot; honeymoon at two state parks near their house in Arkansas.&amp;#xA0;\r\nIn a blog post about the trip on the Duggar family&amp;apos;s official website, Michelle explained their decision to stay close to home&amp;#x2014;which came with a comedy of errors, beginning with the first stop on their adventure, a cabin at Lake Fort Smith.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;When we arrived at our first destination, we couldn&amp;apos;t believe the difference between the photo on the brochure and the reality,&amp;quot; she blogged. &amp;quot;We chuckle about this now, but I did not go and look at the places ahead of time. I just looked at the brochures and I thought, &amp;apos;Okay, it&amp;apos;s a state park and what we see is what we&amp;apos;re going to get.&amp;apos;&amp;quot;\r\nShe was wrong. &amp;quot;The picture showed a lovely cabin right beside a beautiful flowing river,&amp;quot; she recalled, &amp;quot;but when we got there, the cabin was really rundown with awful orange curtains&amp;#x2014;and cobwebs everywhere! On top of that, the river was completely dried up; there was no water at all.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nDisappointed, she and Jim Bob abandoned ship and stayed in a hotel in Fort Smith, Ark., instead. &amp;quot;We didn&amp;apos;t get the setting we were anticipating for our first night together, but it was still sweet,&amp;quot; she wrote.&amp;#xA0;\r\nThe next stop, Mount Nebo, Ark., was as scenic as advertised&amp;#x2014;but after a few nights there, the couple&amp;apos;s car started acting up. In an effort to cut their losses, they headed back to their new home, a small fixer-upper. &amp;quot;We spent the rest of our honeymoon fixing up our little house, which definitely needed a lot of work!&amp;quot; she blogged.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;Before our wedding,&amp;quot; she explained, &amp;quot;we had ripped out all of the cupboard doors in the kitchen and sanded them down, but we didn&amp;apos;t have time to finish them before we got married. So when we got back after our honeymoon, there were no doors on our kitchen cabinets and the place needed a lot of work, but that was okay,&amp;quot; she continued. &amp;quot;We were living on love and it was so exciting.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nThree decades later, the two are still smitten with each other. In fact, they&amp;apos;re celebrating their 30th wedding anniversary today, July 21. Their daughter Jill Dillard (nee Duggar)&amp;#x2014;newly married herself to Derick Dillard&amp;#x2014;acknowledged the milestone on Twitter, with a recent photo of her reality star parents.\r\n&amp;quot;Happy 30th Anniversary to the best parent ever!&amp;quot; she wrote. &amp;quot;We love you! Derick and I share the joy as we celebrate our first 30 days together and look forward to our next 30+ years!&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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