Lainey Wilson has been engaged to her longtime boyfriend, Devlin “Duck” Hodges, since February. While some brides might be in the throes of planning for the big day, Wilson reveals she hasn’t even started working on her wedding details.
“I’m so excited. He made me wait four years, so I’m gonna make him wait four years for the planning,” Wilson tells the CMA. “I am so happy, so thrilled … We haven’t started planning yet, but whenever we do, I think it’s going to be something very simple. Everything else in our life is a big old to-do, so who knows? We might have to run to the courthouse.”
This isn’t the first time Wilson has said she isn’t in a hurry to walk down the aisle. After dating Hodges since 2021, the Grand Ole Opry member says she doesn’t plan on rushing their nuptials.
“[Duck] is gonna kill me, but I told I’m gonna make him wait,” Wilson tells Country Living. “He made me wait for four years. I’m gonna make him wait before we start planning this thing. We hadn’t really covered any ground on it just yet. But we’re taking our time, and it’s gonna be right and it’s gonna be beautiful and what it’s supposed to be about.”
One thing Wilson does know is that she is ditching her signature bell bottoms, albeit for one day.
“I’m going to wear a dress,” Wilson says on The Kelleigh Bannen Show. “I haven’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.”
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Wilson has a new exhibit, Tough as Nails, opening on July 18.
“I cannot believe I have an exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame,” Wilson tells The Tennessean, while inside the Country Music Hall of Fame. “This is insane. That’s just weird even saying that.”
The Country Music Hall of Fame became a point of inspiration for Wilson, long before she had any success in country msuic.
“I used to come up here during the week, when I didn’t have any co-writes,” Wilson remembers. “Nobody would write with me, and I would just walk through this building and just take notes and learn. I felt so inspired when I was here, so inspired when I left. It’s really cool to think that maybe another little girl could be walking through here, and feeling inspired to.”
The Louisiana native has a Top 25 single with “Somewhere Over Laredo.” The song is from her forthcoming Whirlwind Deluxe album, out on August 22.
Wilson is part of the CMA Fest TV special, airing on Thursday, June 26. The show airs at 8:00 PM ET on ABC, and streams the next day on Hulu. Wilson will sing “Play Something Country” with Brooks & Dunn.
Find “Somewhere Over Laredo” and all of Wilson’s music, and pre-order Whirlwind Deluxe, at LaineyWilson.com.