Amy Slaton Chose 'Extraordinary Friend' Ollisha Davis to Be Maid of Honor Instead of Sister Tammy Slaton (Exclusive)

TLC star Amy Slaton didn't take her sister, Tammy Slaton, to beryllium her maid of honor.

Amy, 38, joined Brian Lovvorn successful an "old-timey" and "Victorian" wedding astatine Talbott Tavern, a supposedly haunted historical edifice and inn successful Bardstown, Ky., connected Halloween, 1 twelvemonth aft getting engaged wrong nan padded room of a haunted house. Standing by nan bride's broadside arsenic her maid of grant was her "extraordinary friend" Ollisha Davis.

Speaking to PEOPLE up of her friendly ceremony, nan 1000-Lb. Sisters prima admitted that determining who would beryllium successful her wedding statement was difficult.

"I profoundly cherished nan travel of wedding planning, embracing nan creation and location hunting, but selecting bridesmaids and groomsmen proved to beryllium a profound challenge," Amy said. "Yet I intuitively knew that my bonzer friend Ollisha (Lee Lee) would graciously judge nan esteemed grant of being my maid of honor, moreover earlier I extended nan heartfelt invitation." 

Davis, whose Instagram and TikTok accounts are private, is simply a nationalist proscription driver and dispatcher based connected her bio. The "loving mother and G-mama" has been shouted retired connected Amy and her siblings' various societal media platforms aggregate times.

In June connected Instagram, Amy dedicated 1 of her creation pieces to her friend, penning "D is for my champion friend Ollisha Davis" to picture a bluish coating pinch a achromatic D connected it.

Back successful June 2024, Amy's older sister, Amanda Halterman, shared a saccharine selfie pinch Davis connected TikTok, and tagged her and Amy earlier captioning nan post, "Thanks for ever being there. Supporting america we emotion you girl! Sunday diner was fire." In a group photograph pinch Amy and Davis posted that aforesaid period and twelvemonth connected TikTok, Halterman wrote, "So thankful for friends that person go family!!"

The Halloween wedding was everything Amy had ever hoped for.

"My wedding is simply a dream yet coming true," she told PEOPLE. "I’m getting my happily ever after!"

When Amy said to PEOPLE successful May aft announcing her engagement, she shared that Tammy, 39, was apprehensive astir nan news because Lovvorn projected aft only 5 months of dating.

"She really felt for illustration we were rushing it," Amy said astatine nan time.

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Tammy was nan maid of grant astatine Amy's 2019 wedding to her ex-husband Michael Halterman. The erstwhile mates divided successful 2023 and stock sons Gage Deon, 4, and Glenn Allen, 3.

When Tammy asked Amy to beryllium her maid of grant and thief pinch wedding readying for her matrimony to Caleb Willingham — whose decease was announced connected July 1, 2023 — Amy initially hesitated, citing "a batch going on" pinch her young children, but she yet agreed to beryllium successful her bridal statement and thief pinch planning, as documented connected their deed TLC show.

Amy's spooky ceremonial was officiated by her friend, Billy, who besides officiated Tammy and Willingham's wedding successful 2022 at Windsor Lane Rehabilitation Center in Gibsonburg, Ohio.