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A Friday-night party at Mar-a-Lago, a Saturday ceremony at a historic church and a reception under the stars: inside the wedding of two of cable news' best-known faces.
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PALM BEACH, Fla
Weddings among television personalities are usually a matter for the gossip pages. This one, between Fox News host Sean Hannity and Fox & Friends co-host Ainsley Earhardt, drew the attention of the political world as well, thanks to a guest list that spanned the network's on-air stars and several figures from the Trump orbit.
The couple married on Saturday, October 24, 2026, at the Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea in Palm Beach, according to Fox News Digital's account of the day. It is the same historic church where Hannity proposed over Christmas 2024. The Daily Beast, which described Hannity as 64 and Earhardt as 50, called the pairing the "First Couple" of Fox News, a nickname also picked up by Newser.
A weekend in three acts
The celebrations began Friday night at Mar-a-Lago, where President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump attended a pre-wedding party. The president did not attend the ceremony the following day, according to both Fox News and the Daily Beast.
The ceremony itself was officiated by the couple's ministers, Fox News reported. The pair exchanged personal vows, and the service included readings from Romans 12 and the Song of Solomon. Earhardt wore an Oscar de la Renta gown. Afterward, guests moved to a private reception at the Everglades Club in Palm Beach, held under a retractable roof, so that the evening could unfold, in the outlet's words, under the stars.
In a joint statement quoted by Fox News, the couple said: "Our faith has always been at the center of our relationship, and we truly believe God brought us together."
Who was there
The attendee list published by Fox News is long. Network leadership included Suzanne Scott, CEO of Fox News Media, and Jay Wallace, president and executive editor. On-air colleagues included Steve Doocy, Brian Kilmeade, Laura Ingraham, Mark Levin, Dana Perino, Bret Baier, Harris Faulkner, Bill Hemmer, Martha MacCallum and Trey Gowdy, among others.
From the political sphere, the guests included Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Casey DeSantis, Sen. Tim Scott, U.S. Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and his wife Callista, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and Eric and Lara Trump. Karoline Leavitt, newly named a Fox contributor per the network, also attended, and the Daily Beast reported that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was among the guests. Musicians Lee Greenwood, Gary LeVox of Rascal Flatts and John Ondrasik of Five for Fighting rounded out the list.
The optics question
Because the Mar-a-Lago event brought together a president and a sitting network's top talent, commentary quickly turned to the overlap between media and power. La Voce di New York ran a piece headlined that the wedding "celebrates the blurring of Fox News and Trump's world." Whether you read that as an observation or a criticism depends on where you sit politically, but the guest list gave the argument plenty of material.
Hannity addressed the arrangement directly, according to the Daily Beast. "I've had a personal relationship with President Trump for over 30 years," he said. On the party at Mar-a-Lago, he added: "We chose to host a party at Mar-a-Lago and paid fair market value for the venue."
The couple's story
Hannity divorced his previous wife in 2019 after 26 years of marriage, the Daily Beast reported, citing Vanity Fair for the detail that he and Earhardt began dating in 2020. They announced their engagement in late 2024.
Fox News also leaned into the faith theme, highlighting the church setting, the scripture readings and the couple's statement.
What this means for you
If you are a regular viewer, the wedding changes nothing about your schedule: both hosts remain on air. For everyone else, the story is a reminder of how tightly woven cable news, politics and celebrity have become. Wedding coverage that would once have run in a society column now doubles as a map of who is close to whom in Washington and Palm Beach.
It is also a case study in how public figures manage the story around their private milestones. By choosing a church the couple had personal history with, publishing a statement centered on faith, and being clear about paying for the Mar-a-Lago venue, they got ahead of the narratives most likely to follow.
Looking ahead
Expect the news cycle to move on quickly, as it does with most weddings. But as a snapshot of a particular corner of American public life, with its mix of broadcast stars, elected officials and country singers sharing one reception, it will be hard to beat. For two television veterans, it was a personal milestone staged, inevitably, in full public view.
Beyond the headline names
Fox News's list also reached into business and entertainment: Steve Wynn, Julia Koch, Patrick Bet-David, Sage Steele, Jillian Michaels and Nancy Grace were among those named, alongside additional Fox personalities such as Emily Compagno, Carley Shimkus, Kayleigh McEnany and Lawrence Jones. Dan Scavino and Erin Scavino, as well as Sen. Tim Scott's wife Mindy Scott, were also listed. It is the sort of cross-section that rarely appears at a single private event.
What stands out is how much of the weekend was documented by the couple's own employer. The most detailed guest list came from Fox News Digital itself, written by a network reporter, while independent outlets such as the Daily Beast and La Voce di New York supplied the framing around power and proximity. Readers comparing the accounts will notice differences in emphasis, though the core facts of the venue, the dates and the president's attendance at the Friday party only line up consistently across them.
Wedding stories of this kind also illustrate a quirk of celebrity news: the most reliable details are often the least dramatic. Here, those are the church, the gown designer, the scripture readings and the reception venue, all of which come from a single detailed account. The more speculative angles, about influence and access, are best understood as interpretations layered on top of those facts.
