Inside Lainey Wilson and Devlin “Duck” Hodges’s Waterfall Wedding Ceremony in Tennessee
The Grammy-winning country singer-songwriter—who wore a dress for the first time, designed by Oscar de la Renta—and former NFL quarterback married at a celebration deep in the Tennessee hills.
Reported by Vogue.
A blind date at a Nashville honkytonk in 2021. A proposal on George Jones's front porch in Franklin, Tennessee, four years later — rose petals, framed photographs, the whole thing. And a May 2026 wedding at a cave venue the couple discovered off a Tennessee backroad billboard. Lainey Wilson and Devlin "Duck" Hodges did not exactly do understated, but they made it feel like they did.
According to Vogue, the ceremony took place on a cobblestone ledge at Ruskin Cave in Dickson, Tennessee, at the foot of a working waterfall — birds, spring breeze, a white horse-drawn carriage, and Lainey walking the aisle with her father. Their officiant was a personal mentor. They read private vows to each other beforehand in a notebook, just the two of them. Then Raye's "Where Is My Husband!" played as they walked back out as a married couple — followed immediately by the Rebirth Brass Band leading the entire wedding party in a New Orleans second line march to cocktail hour. The event planner credits go to Hugh Howser and Kate Steele of H Three Events.
The Dress That Made History (For Her, Anyway)
Lainey Wilson — best known for her denim bell bottoms, her Grammy for best country album, and her Yellowstone role — had never worn a dress before her wedding day. The custom Oscar de la Renta gown, developed with her stylist Alexandra Mandelkorn, featured hand-embroidered Japanese cherry blossoms at the neckline and throughout the skirt, over 1,500 faille flowers, and more than 20,000 bugle bead and crystal embellishments on the train and veil. "The cherry blossom represents living in the moment," she said — and the look landed accordingly. Duck, meanwhile, arrived in a bespoke mallard-green suit by D. Lacquaniti, custom Golden West boots, a Mud Lowery gold duck bolo tie, and a Charlie 1 Horse cowboy hat, styled by friend Raina Gir.
The reception leaned deep into Lainey's Louisiana roots: a 12-piece Rebirth Brass Band, a full Cajun dinner from the kitchen of her bar Bell Bottoms Up, and a dance floor that reportedly never cleared. Her mother led the dinner prayer. Luke Bryan was in attendance. They exited through sparklers and into an old white Ford truck. The whole evening operated on the logic that warmth is a design choice — and that a genuinely good party requires no justification.
When a wedding feels less like a production and more like a natural extension of who two people actually are, that's not an accident — it's the hardest thing to pull off, and Wilson and Hodges nailed it.
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