Why NFL's Jake Ferguson and Haley Cavinder Said No Kids at Their Wedding

Dallas Cowboys star Jake Ferguson was not going to let his wedding turn into a glorified autograph session for his quarterback, Dak Prescott.

Ferguson, 27, and former University of Miami basketball player Haley Cavinder got married on Saturday, June 20, with one strict rule in place: absolutely no kids allowed.

"I knew for a fact my little cousins would be asking Dak Prescott for a picture," Ferguson told GQ in a story published on Monday, June 22. "I just didn't want that to happen, because I wanted him to let loose a little bit."

Ferguson and Cavinder, 25, tied the knot at the Biltmore Hotel in Miami, a venue that Cavinder immediately knew was the one when they checked it out.

"I was just like, ‘Oh my gosh, this works! Let's get married here,'" she told GQ.

When it came time to plan the details of their wedding, the couple had decidedly different roles.

"I'm very type A with scheduling and stuff," Cavinder said. "But I never was like, ‘It's my wedding day, let's go to Pinterest!' I'm not a big detailed girlie about flowers. I just have never been to a wedding and judged the flowers. I wish I had that in me!"

She added, "At the food tasting, Jake got hammered, ate everything, and was like, ‘I want all this food.' So that was his involvement."

While Ferguson left most of the logistics to his new wife, the NFL star did have one request for the ceremony: a ranch fountain.

"He's obsessed with ranch," Cavinder said.

Cavinder wore a custom lace princess gown from designer Galia Lahav, who has also designed wedding dresses for Simone Biles, Vanessa Hudgens and Paris Hilton.

The couple entered their wedding reception to "Fergalicious" by Fergie and had their first dance to Brad Paisley's "Then."

While the couple now gets to bash in their newlywed bliss, Ferguson said there's still some "debate" about how the pair actually met.

"She liked a couple of my pictures, the typical social media thing, and then I slid into her DMs," he told GQ.

However, Cavinder responded, "He likes to say I slid in."

"She liked all my pictures!" Ferguson argued. "She was living down in Miami at the time, and my parents live in Fort Myers Beach. We had talked on the phone a little bit, and I was like, ‘Hey, I'm going to be down in Florida. Would you like to grab dinner and do something?'"

After their first date, Ferguson recalled the couple hanging out 10 days in a row.

"It was pretty immediate for me," he said. "I was like, ‘Yeah I want to marry her.'"

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This story was originally published June 23, 2026 at 10:37 AM.