Actress reveals she and the two-time World Cup champion quietly wed in upstate New York over a year before going public with the news.
Sophia Bush, 44, and former U.S. soccer goalkeeper Ashlyn Harris, 40, privately married in summer 2025 in an intimate ceremony in upstate New York, the couple revealed in a Vogue interview published September 30, 2026, and in an excerpt from Bush's forthcoming memoir, And I Will Tell You Mine: Notes from a Life in Progress. The disclosure came more than a year after the wedding itself, with Harris's two children from her previous marriage to retired soccer player Ali Krieger—daughter Sloane, 5, and son Ocean, 4—present for the ceremony.
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How a City Hall Trip Turned Into a Backyard Wedding
According to accounts summarizing the Vogue interview, the decision to marry emerged spontaneously during a trip to upstate New York. The couple initially went to City Hall before shifting plans and deciding to marry during a previously arranged weekend with friends built around a state fair, one report detailed. The ceremony ultimately took place at a private property in the region rather than through any formal courthouse process.
The wedding was deliberately small and informal, described in coverage as a private backyard gathering rather than a conventional celebrity wedding. There was no publicly announced engagement, no extensive guest list and no formal wedding rollout accompanying the event, distinguishing it sharply from the media-heavy unions often associated with figures of Bush's and Harris's public stature.
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Dress From the Basement, Officiant Ordained Online
Details released through Vogue and repeated across entertainment outlets emphasize the ceremony's low-key character. Bush wore a black velvet dress with gold flecks that she found in her basement, while Harris wore a tuxedo. Bush's friend and producing partner, Nia Batts, was ordained online specifically so she could officiate the ceremony, according to Harper's Bazaar's reporting on the couple's outfits and wedding details.
Harris described the children's role in the day in terms that underscored its informality. "The kids were just running and happy, and we picked flowers from the property and our daughter Sloane was holding them," she said, according to People and other outlets citing the Vogue interview. She added, "It was so fun for them, because it wasn't this pressure-filled day that's too much for young kids." Those remarks frame the wedding as woven into ordinary family life rather than staged as a formal event demanding a ceremonial role from the children.
A Year of Silence Before the Reveal
Bush and Harris were first publicly linked in 2023, and Bush came out as queer in 2024, a period that coincided with intense media attention surrounding Harris's separation and divorce from Krieger. Harris and Krieger had married in 2019 and share Sloane and Ocean; their divorce proceedings and subsequent co-parenting arrangements drew substantial entertainment-media coverage, making the children's inclusion in Bush and Harris's wedding particularly significant to the broader family narrative now being told publicly.
Despite the scrutiny already surrounding both women's personal lives, the couple chose to withhold confirmation of the marriage for more than a year. Bush framed this choice in terms of reclaiming control over her own narrative. "When you get to this stage in your life, you begin to unpack what's yours and what's always sort of been for everyone else," she told Vogue, according to Extra's reporting. The comment ties directly to themes in her memoir, set for publication October 27, 2026.
A Quote Widely Repeated, Context Still Unclear
Among the most circulated lines from the disclosure is Bush's reported remark to Harris: "You're my wife." The line has spread widely across entertainment coverage, including Just Jared and People, but available reporting does not establish whether it was spoken during the ceremony itself, in a private moment afterward, or as narration within the memoir. It should be treated as a reported quotation rather than part of a fully documented vows exchange.
No evidence in current reporting points to a large public celebration, commercial sponsorship, formal wedding photography campaign or representative statement accompanying the disclosure. Instead, the news emerged through the Vogue feature and memoir promotion, then spread through outlets including People, USA Today, Harper's Bazaar and Us Weekly, suggesting a controlled personal announcement timed to the book's release rather than a response to leaked information.
What Comes Next for Bush's Memoir and Public Narrative
Available reporting does not establish the precise wedding date, exact location, guest count or whether a civil marriage license was filed in a specific municipality. The consistently verified facts remain that the ceremony occurred in summer 2025 in upstate New York with Harris's children present, described through the couple's own account rather than an independently published marriage record.
The next confirmed milestone is the October 27, 2026, publication of Bush's memoir, which is expected to provide further first-person detail about her relationship, marriage and family life. Any additional specifics—including a complete guest list, full vows or custody arrangements involving Sloane and Ocean—remain unverified and should not be treated as established fact until further disclosed by the couple or documented publicly.
