Luke Combs is certain of one thing –– his love for his fiancée, Nicole Hocking. What is unsure of is if their wedding, planned for an unannounced date in 2020, will take place this year or not, due to the coronavirus pandemic.
“We obviously hope that that happens,” Luke said, speaking about the wedding ceremony (via Nash Country Daily). “Obviously, things are day to day, and that decision ultimately is not really up to us. I guess it depends on regulations and the way all this stuff shakes out. So I don’t know. We’ll see. Obviously, we would both love to [have the wedding], and hope that that happens sooner rather than later. But also, we want to be safe for our grandparents and different folks like that. There’s not much we can do about it but plan ahead.
“We definitely considered [a very small wedding], but my fiancée has put so much planning into this thing. I think we’re pretty set on what we’re gonna do and whenever that is, I guess we’ll find out soon enough,” he added.
The wedding may not happen as they originally planned, but neither did his proposal. The “Six Feet Apart” singer had plans to pop the question on the day they moved into the first house they owned together, but it didn’t go quite as he hoped.
“We hired a moving company to move all of our stuff from the apartment to the new house,” Luke recalled on the Couple Things podcast. “In the meantime, we went to my manager’s house to spend the day there, while they were moving all the stuff. It’s about an hour apart. We had to bring the cats with us; we have two cats. The cats do not travel well. Her cat peed in the cat. My cat threw up in the crate. So that was awesome.”
Luke was forced to still ask Nicole to marry him, since her parents were coming to town the next day and knew of his plans.
“He was like, ‘I got these collars for the cats, new collars with the new address on it, and I also got you this,’” Nicole recalled. “He pulls it out, gets down on one knee, does the whole thing. I black out, I don’t remember this. And I was just like, ‘My ears are hot. What’s going on?’”