Will Forte and Olivia Modling did not end up with the wedding they first planned for 2020. After the COVID-19 pandemic pushed those plans aside, they married in a small, last-minute ceremony in Albuquerque in 2021, turning a delayed celebration into a surprise for Forte’s parents and a milestone that came with their first child already in the picture.
The reason people are searching for Will Forte wife now is that the comic has finally put a clear timeline around his family life. He and Modling started dating in 2018, got engaged in 2019 and welcomed their daughter Zoe in February 2021, five months before the wedding. By 2024, Forte said he was a father of two, with two young daughters — one about 3 and the other about a year and a half.
Forte has been unusually open about how the marriage happened. He said the couple realized the people they wanted around them were already in New Mexico while he was filming there, so they decided at the last minute to get married. “They didn’t even know until they pulled into the parking lot,” he said of his parents, who were surprised by the ceremony. The wedding itself was small and informal, held in the back of Jorma Taccone’s house in Albuquerque.
That route to the altar came after a year of disruption. The couple had planned to marry in 2020, but the pandemic changed those plans before they eventually went through with it in 2021. Their decision meant they became parents before they became husband and wife, a sequence that Forte has described with obvious affection and relief. In December 2021, he called Modling “the most patient, understanding woman in the world,” a line that fits the way he has talked about their relationship from the start.
He had already shown that tone months earlier, when he described becoming a father at 50. He said Modling had made him a sweatshirt that read, “Dad or Grandpa?” and laughed about being “a 50-year-old father.” The joke landed because it captured the surprise of his new life: a late-in-life marriage, a newborn daughter and a household that quickly grew to two children.
Modling has largely stayed out of the spotlight, and little is publicly known about her personal life beyond her work in distribution and brand partnerships. Still, Forte has made clear that the relationship is central to his happiness. His remarks in recent years suggest the marriage is no longer the story of a postponed wedding. It is the story of a family that came together on its own timetable, in a city far from the public eye, and then kept growing after the ceremony ended.
The only open detail is the exact date of the 2021 wedding, which Forte has not pinned down publicly. What he has confirmed is enough to fix the outline: a pandemic delay, a surprise Albuquerque ceremony, two daughters and a marriage that began with a last-minute decision rather than a long-planned aisle walk.
