Lainey Wilson and Devlin “Duck” Hodges turned a blind date from 2021 into a wedding at the foot of a waterfall on Sunday, May 10, 2026, saying their vows at the Ruskin Cave in Dickson, Tennessee. The country music singer-songwriter and the former NFL quarterback-turned-entrepreneur chose a setting they found while driving Tennessee backroads, after spotting a billboard for the venue and deciding, in Wilson’s words, “You wanna get married there?”
Hodges proposed in February 2025 at George Jones’s estate in Franklin, Tennessee, on the front porch where he laid out rose petals and pictures of the couple from the last five years. Wilson said it was the kind of gesture that fit their relationship from the start: “We’ve been pretty inseparable since.”
The wedding carried that same mix of intimacy and spectacle. Wilson arrived in a white horse-drawn carriage and walked down the aisle with her father, Deddy, before the couple was married by her friend and mentor Wes Williams. The ceremony included communion with family and friends present, and Wilson said the setting was hard to beat: “You could hear the water trickling down and birds singing, and we had a nice spring breeze.”
Wilson said the pair wanted the day to feel personal without feeling stiff. “We wanted it to be special and beautiful, but really welcoming and comfortable for our guests,” she said. “We tried not to take ourselves too seriously.”
The reception leaned fully into that idea. Guests heard a 12-piece jazz band called Rebirth and ate a Cajun meal prepared by chefs from Bell Bottoms Up, Wilson’s bar. She said the food and music were part of bringing her Louisiana background into the celebration: “Being from Louisiana, I wanted to bring in a little bit of Cajun flair, so naturally we hired a 12-piece jazz band called Rebirth and had a Cajun meal from the chefs at my bar, Bell Bottoms Up.”
Fashion also carried a message. Wilson wore a custom Oscar de la Renta look with tiny Japanese cherry blossoms around the neckline and scattered throughout, which she said matched the mood of the day: “The cherry blossom represents living in the moment, and that’s exactly what we did.” She said the sight of Hodges at the altar made the moment land: “I have never seen Duck smile as big as he did then.”
Hodges wore a bespoke suit by D. Lacquaniti, along with custom bolo, cufflinks and a hat pin created with Mud Lowery, plus custom boots from Golden West Boots and a cowboy hat by Charlie 1 Horse. Wilson said the night left her ready for what comes next. “It made me feel giddy about turning the page into this next chapter of marriage,” she said. “We were both anxious to say ‘I do!’”
