Lainey Wilson is sharing details of her upcoming wedding with Devlin “Duck” Hodges. The two got engaged in February, after dating for four years.
“I think it’s going to be small,” Wilson reveals to Audacy. “We haven’t talked about this much. This is as much planning as we have done. We have said everything else is a big old to-do. We just want this to be about what it’s supposed to be about, and have our friends and family there and just really enjoy that moment.”
“I definitely, probably will have like a jazz band from New Orleans, something like that,” she adds. “We’ll definitely, probably ride off on horses, or ride in on a horse, maybe in on a carriage, off on a horse.”
Wilson is thrilled with her ring, which is bigger than she could have ever dreamed.
“Years ago I was just joking and being like, ‘Oh, check this out,’” Wilson recalls on Apple Music Country‘s The Kelleigh Bannen Show. “He was like, ‘Oh shoot.’ I think he started saving four years ago when we first started dating … But he went in and he designed it. And so he took a couple of the rings that I showed him years ago and put them all together and he outdid himself.”
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Wilson is known for her signature bell bottoms, even naming her Nashville bar Bell Bottoms Up. But for her wedding day, Wilson says she will ditch the pants in favor of something more traditional.
“I’m going to wear a dress,” Wilson says. “I hadn’t done the whole dress shopping. We haven’t even picked a date or anything like that. We got some time, but I figured, you know what? I hadn’t worn a dress for him yet, and I guess that would be the day to do it.”
Wilson just dropped a new song, “Bell Bottoms Up,” from her next album, less than a year after Whirlwind was released last August.
“I don’t have a release date. But we have a bar called Bell Bottoms Up,” Wilson shares. “We wrote a song called ‘Bell Bottoms Up’. I had said for a long time, I was like, ‘If I ever have a bar on Broadway it’s going to be called Bell Bottoms Up.’ So we wrote the theme song, and I wrote it with my band.”
In addition to planning a wedding, the Grand Ole Opry member is also looking forward to the ACM Awards, where she has seven nominations.
“I don’t think that will ever get old,” Wilson says of her nominations. “I know that they’re not going to always be calling my name like forever, you know? So I soak up those moments. I really do. I have to.”
Wilson will spend much of 2025 on the road, playing fairs and festivals and headlining her Whirlwind World Tour. Find music and tour dates at LaineyWilson.com.
The 2025 ACM Awards will take place on May 8 at Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas. Reba McEntire will return to host the ceremony, for the second year in a row. Find more information at ACMCountry.com.