Sometimes the best love stories aren’t the ones that start young—they’re the ones that find you when you’ve already figured out who you are.
Zac Brown, the 47-year-old frontman of the Zac Brown Band, and designer Kendra Scott, 52, tied the knot on Monday, May 25, at the luxurious Canaves Epitome Resort in Santorini, Greece, turning what started as a family vacation into one for the wedding highlight reel. The couple brought their blended family along—Brown’s five children from his previous marriage to Shelly and Scott’s three sons—making it a celebration that honored where they both come from rather than erasing it.
What’s striking about this union isn’t just the Santorini sunset romance, though that certainly helps the story. It’s the speed and intentionality of it all. Nearly a year ago, Brown and Scott made their red carpet debut together at the 2025 American Music Awards. Two months later, he proposed during golden hour on a boat in Africa while they danced to the song‘I may not be your first, but I’ll be your last.’Scott, recalling the moment on Today With Jenna&Friends, described how she said yes before he even finished asking the question. That’s not hesitation—that’s recognition.
In interviews leading up to this moment, Brown spoke candidly about finding someone he was aligned with in a way he’d never experienced before.“Finding someone I’m so like-minded with and share and align in such a way, it’s such an incredible thing,”he told Us in July 2025. That kind of language—the emphasis on alignment and shared values—signals something deeper than infatuation. These aren’t two people swept up in newlywed energy. They’re two accomplished people who know what they want and found it in each other.
Throughout their relationship, they’ve shown up for each other’s work too. In March, Scott supported Brown’s Camp Southern Ground initiative, while Brown celebrated his wife launching a Yellow Rose by Kendra Scott store in Nashville. And in a full-circle moment timed almost perfectly with their wedding, the Zac Brown Band won Best Country Duo or Group at the 2026 American Music Awards on the same day they were saying vows in Greece.
Perhaps what resonates most is how Scott has spoken about her own journey. She told Today’s Jenna Bush Hager:“Never give up. It’s never too late to get it right. Believe in love. It can still happen. I am so happy and so grateful.”That’s not just a sweet sentiment—it’s a quiet rebellion against the idea that your story ends if your first or second chapter doesn’t work out the way you planned.
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