{"id":192704,"date":"2026-05-14T22:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T22:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/192704\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T22:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T22:34:08","slug":"lainey-wilson-marries-devlin-duck-hodges-in-lavish-tennessee-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/192704\/","title":{"rendered":"Lainey Wilson marries Devlin &#8220;Duck&#8221; Hodges in lavish Tennessee wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Country music star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/lainey-wilson-impostor-syndrome-new-single-somewhere-over-laredo-finding-her-duck\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lainey Wilson<\/a> and former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Devlin &#8220;Duck&#8221; Hodges tied the knot in a lavish Tennessee wedding over the weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/gettyimages-2267131701.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"Lainey Wilson: Keepin' Country Cool SXSW Premiere - Austin, TX \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  (L-R) Duck Hodges and Lainey Wilson attend the Lainey Wilson: Keepin&#8217; Country Cool SXSW Premiere on March 17, 2026 in Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>                (Photo Creidt: Robin Marchant)<\/p>\n<p>Wilson and Hodges announced the news in a joint post on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/laineywilson\/p\/DYVUqY3ibSh\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-absolute=\"true\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0on Thursday, sharing 20 photos of the whimsical ceremony with a short-and-sweet caption: &#8220;we&#8217;re hitched!&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The two were wed at the Ruskin Cave in Dickson, Tennessee, on Sunday, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/slideshow\/lainey-wilson-and-devlin-duck-hodges-wedding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-absolute=\"true\">Vogue<\/a>. The 160-acre wedding venue, which includes the legendary Ruskin Cave, was founded in 1986 and sits along the waters of Yellow Creek, according to its website.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Vogue reported that Wilson, 33, wore a custom Oscar de la Renta   dress that featured Japanese cherry blossoms around the neckline and the rest of the dress, while Hodges, 30, wore a bespoke suit by D. Lacquaniti, a cowboy hat by Charlie 1 Horse and custom boots by Golden West Boots.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wilson, who has appeared on the hit show &#8220;Yellowstone,&#8221; also reportedly carried a wildflower bouquet for the ceremony, which Vogue reported took place &#8220;on a cobblestone ledge at the foot of a waterfall.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You could hear the water trickling down and birds singing, and we had a nice spring breeze,&#8221; Wilson told Vogue. &#8220;I arrived in a white horse-drawn carriage and walked down the aisle with my Deddy to join Duck at the altar.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Among the celebrity guests at the wedding were Jelly Roll, Ella Langley, Luke Bryan and Miranda Lambert.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wilson and Hodges, who got <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/lainey-wilson-engaged-pittsburgh-steelers-devlin-duck-hodges\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">engaged<\/a>\u00a0in February 2025, made their debut as a couple at the 2023 ACM Awards. Before that, the two sparked romance rumors when Wilson, while in Pittsburgh on Luke Combs&#8217; world tour, wore a Hodges jersey. In an interview, Wilson said they waited about two and a half years before going public.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with &#8220;CBS Mornings&#8221; in May 2025, Wilson called Hodges one of her &#8220;biggest cheerleaders.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He high-fives me on the way in the door and on the way out,&#8221; Wilson said. &#8220;He played professional football, and he knows what it&#8217;s like to work your entire life for something. And so he gets it. So I had to kiss a bunch of frogs, but I finally found me a duck.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hodges became a fan-favorite in Pittsburgh during the 2019 season, when he saw the field after injuries to Ben Roethlisberger and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/baltimore\/news\/steelers-qb-mason-rudolph-knocked-unconscious-after-taking-hit-to-helmet-from-ravens-safety-earl-thomas-iii\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mason Rudolph<\/a>. With his quirky nickname,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/giant-yellow-rubber-duck-steelers-devlin-hodges\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hodges inspired memes<\/a>\u00a0and plenty of t-shirts.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/pittsburgh-steelers-release-devlin-hodges-curtis-riley-for-joshua-dobbs-sean-davis\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Steelers released Hodges<\/a>\u00a0in 2020, and he never stepped on an NFL field again. He announced his<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/duck-hodges-announces-retirement\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u00a0retirement<\/a>\u00a0in 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<p>  <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Country music star Lainey Wilson and former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Devlin &#8220;Duck&#8221; Hodges tied the knot in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,1833,7426,33727],"class_list":["post-192704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-tennessee","tag-wedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}