Jon Gosselin’s new wife Stephanie Lebo has talked about their special wedding day on Sunday in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
The 38-year-old former beautician and research analyst shared the special promise her new reality TV star husband made when he said his vows.
‘I promise to love your daughter as my own daughter,’ Gosselin vowed, referring to his wife’s daughter, Juliana.
He also promised to be there for his spouse no matter what.
‘I promise to love you with conditions to lift you up when you’re tired, to laugh with you in joy and hold you in sorrow,’ he told Stephanie, as seen in a video of the ceremony shared by Entertainment Tonight. This made them both emotional.
She later told ET that him mentioning Juliana meant a lot to her: ‘John surprised me with the way he incorporated my child, which was very important. I didn’t see that coming,’ she said, adding, ‘And that meant the world.’
And he said the vows almost made him break down in tears. ‘I’m trying to be a good father to her — just like one of my own,’ he said.
Jon Gosselin’s new wife Stephanie Lebo has talked about their special wedding day on Sunday in Lancaster, Pennsylvania . The 38-year-old former beautician and research analyst shared the special promise her new reality TV star husband made when he said his vows
‘I promise to love your daughter as my own daughter,’ Gosselin vowed, referring to his wife’s daughter, Juliana
Jon shares eight children — twins Mady and Cara, 25, and sextuplets Alexis, Hannah, Aaden, Collin, Leah and Joel, 21, with ex-wife Kate Gosselin.
Hannah and Collin were at the wedding but the other children were not.
ET shared images from the romantic nuptials that took place one year after their engagement. They have been together for four years.
The couple tied the knot at The Barn at Silverstone in front of 180 guests.
Son Collin, who served as one of his father’s groomsmen, told Entertainment Tonight ‘it would have been really nice to see’ his siblings Madelyn, Cara, Leah, Alexis, Joel and Aaden there as well.
‘I love them, and I hope they know that we would have loved to see them here,’ he said following the nuptials.
Collin was also happy for his father. ‘With everything he’s been through, it just highlighted it even more for me that he’s really deserving of this,’ Collin gushed of his dad’s marriage.
Collin also gave Lebo his stamp of approval. He said she ‘unconditionally’ loves his dad and their love has ‘no script.’
The bride wore a Tasha wedding gown by Eddy K. The newlyweds will honeymoon next year on a Caribbean cruise.
He also promised to be there for his spouse no matter what
‘I promise to love you with conditions to lift you up when you’re tired, to laugh with you in joy and hold you in sorrow,’ he told Stephanie, as seen in a video of the ceremony shared by Entertainment Tonight
This made them both emotional. She later told ET that him mentioning Juliana meant a lot to her: ‘John surprised me with the way he incorporated my child, which was very important. I didn’t see that coming,’ she said
The bride also said, ‘And that meant the world.’ And he said the vows almost made him break down in tears. ‘I’m trying to be a good father to her — just like one of my own,’ he said
Collin, who served as one of his father’s groomsmen, told Entertainment Tonight ‘it would have been really nice to see’ their siblings Madelyn, Cara, Leah, Alexis, Joel and Aaden there as well
Hannah and Collin both went to live with Jon in the wake of his split with Kate.
Jon and Stephanie began dating after meeting and opened up publicly about their relationship two years later in August 2023.
Jon and Stephanie crossed paths more than four years ago during a summer barbecue at the house of a mutual friend in August of 2021, after Jon split from his ex-girlfriend Colleen Conrad.
Here the reality TV star is seen with his wife as she flashed her diamond ring
‘We met at a backyard barbecue at a mutual friend Dean’s house,’ Jon told The US Sun in 2023.
‘It was a hillbilly thing we let fireworks off, it was fun. I had been single for a few months after Colleen and I broke up.’
Kate and Jon pictured at the height of their reality TV fame in NYC in 2009
Stephanie recalled to the outlet: ‘It was a graduation party and birthday party for our mutual friend’s nephew’s birthday, but he knew it was my birthday too so he got me a special lotus candle so when it spun around it opened up.
‘Afterwards I got tagged in a post about it on Instagram and Jon wrote, ‘That was a super cool candle’ and I wrote, ‘It was super cool to meet you’ … we started DMing each other and after that we just never stopped talking.’
In the wake of Jon and Kate’s divorce, TLC recast the show as Kate Plus 8, and six more seasons aired before it ended in 2017.
Jon said in a 2025 interview with E News! that he hadn’t spoken with his ex-wife in around seven years.
‘We don’t communicate,’ he said. ‘I think the last time I heard her voice in person was, like, 2018.’
In August, Kate shared sentiments on parenting in a TikTok post, saying, ‘I don’t know if you have kids or don’t have kids, but I just, I made decisions based on how I would want to be treated, honestly.
‘And I didn’t buy into all the drama and the hate, and the ugly. And I had kids involved, so I wanted it to be as peaceful for them as I possibly could.’
