What's the secret to a happy marriage? Respect? Kindness? Ask Jelly Roll and Bunnie XO, and they might give you a surprising answer.
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00:00What's the secret to a happy marriage?
00:03Respect?
00:04Kindness?
00:05Ask Jelly Roll and Bunny XO, and they might give you a surprising answer.
00:09For some people, planning a wedding can be a colossal undertaking, taking months of consistent
00:14organization and no small amount of stress.
00:17And if you forget your own anniversary after all that, well, it'll be disappointed sighs
00:21and eye-rolling all around.
00:23That is, unless you're singer Jelly Roll and his wife Bunny XO, neither of whom really
00:28remember their original wedding date.
00:30The reason for this is that they sidestepped that whole intensive planning phase of their
00:34marriage and went straight to the vows.
00:36And as you may have guessed, this all took place in Las Vegas, the world capital of impromptu
00:41weddings.
00:42Jelly Roll recounted the tale on the King and the Wing and the Sting podcast.
00:45So it's like 11 o'clock, they're closing the joint down by Hard Rock, and I'm like, f**k
00:51it, let's just go now.
00:53As Jelly tells it, Bunny pointed out that the nearby county clerk's office was going
00:57to close in about half an hour, but he didn't seem to care too much and simply said,
01:01Let's roll.
01:03And true to Jelly's name, roll they did.
01:05That was in 2016, and despite their first years together being what Bunny once described
01:10as a rodeo, the two are completely happy together.
01:14Sadly, we don't have a lot of details about the specific night in question, but we do
01:18know that Jelly proposed on the same night that they wed.
01:21The two had come together about a year prior through a mutual friend after Bunny split
01:26up with her partner at the time.
01:28Or as Jelly explains,
01:29She was like, yo, just plug me in with Jelly.
01:32After a year of dating, Jelly proposed at the end of one of his concerts in Las Vegas,
01:36no less.
01:37Jelly then suggested that they get married right away, and voila, eight years happily
01:42hitched.
01:43Speaking about her decision on an Instagram post in 2022, Bunny said,
01:47Looking back at what felt like the absolute wildest decision I ever made, it ended up
01:52literally being the best decision I've made my entire life.
01:55On her Dumb Blonde podcast, meanwhile, she said that she and Jelly hadn't really known
01:59each other when they got married.
02:01Hop into the frying pan with the f----- hot grease, but it's so worth it in the end.
02:06She also recommended couples therapy as an option when things aren't necessarily working
02:10out.
02:11You know, we went through it, we figured it out, and we're better than ever now.
02:14In the hands of some couples, a forgotten wedding date would be cause for a blowout,
02:18to say the least.
02:19But in Jelly Roll and Bunny XO's relationship, it didn't really matter.
02:23After seven years together, they decided to renew their wedding vows in 2023, this
02:28time with a ceremony.
02:30But since they weren't exactly sure when they actually got married, they decided on a new
02:34date together.
02:36As Jelly told People magazine,
02:37It is officially, I think, September 1st.
02:41And September 1st felt right, because we thought it was between the 30th and 31st.
02:46So I said, well, now we can just both be wrong and just set it on the 1st.
02:51Even money that way.
02:52In recent years, Jelly and Bunny have been very vocal about both their relationship and
02:57their love for each other.
02:58On the Taste of Country Nights radio show, Jelly described how he knew that Bunny was
03:02right from day one.
03:04He said,
03:05When I hugged her, I could just feel the genuineness of her.
03:08I could tell it wasn't an act.
03:10On the day they renewed their vows, he wrote a touching Instagram post.
03:14It read,
03:15I may have never gave my wife the wedding she truly deserved, but I plan on giving her
03:19the life she deserves for the rest of it.
03:21I love you more than anything, mama bear.
03:23You are my anchor.
03:25A year later, Bunny said on Instagram,
03:27Without you, I wouldn't be the woman I am today.