Cole McBee and Kacie Adkison have gone public with the Las Vegas wedding they kept hidden while filming, confirming that the spur-of-the-moment ceremony shown on The McBee Dynasty: Real American Cowboys Season 3, Episode 8 was their real marriage. The reveal came after the episode aired on Aug. 3, and it puts a private family decision on display just as the couple says they are ready to plan the larger celebration they put off.
The timing matters because McBee said he still had not worn his wedding ring before the episode reached viewers, and he said many friends did not know the two had already married. Adkison, for her part, said the secret is finally out and that they can start planning their actual wedding now. Their televised ceremony was officiated by an Elvis impersonator, and some friends and family were there, but not everyone close to the couple made the trip.
McBee said Adkison’s family was not part of the Vegas nuptials, and neither were his parents, Kristi McBee and Steve McBee Sr. He said the wedding happened on the spur of the moment, linking that decision to the reality that his father was heading to prison for the next two years and to the couple’s expectation that they would likely have another child soon. That private calculation explains why the wedding came first and the bigger celebration later.
There is still one wrinkle in the story. The couple said the wedding was meant to be a surprise, yet Adkison said McBee slips up all the time and calls her his wife anyway. That kind of offhand mistake is hard to keep secret for long, especially when he says friends still think the pair are merely engaged. McBee said he expects some of their closest friends to be shocked when they learn the marriage is already official.
What comes next is the part the couple seems most comfortable talking about now that the secret is out. McBee and Adkison said they plan to host a second ceremony behind their new home on the family farm in Gallatin, Mo., after Steve McBee Sr. is released from prison. For now, the private Vegas vows stand as the marriage that changed their family life first, with the public celebration still waiting for its own date.
