Jelly Roll and Bunnie XO Mark Nine Years in Cologne, Turning a Tour Stop into a Love LetterNASHVILLE/COLOGNE — On September 2, 2025 (U.S. time), country hitmaker Jelly Roll and his wife, creator–podcaster Bunnie XO, quietly turned a European tour layover into a milestone moment, celebrating their ninth wedding anniversary in Cologne, Germany. The pair posted a series of affectionate photos outside the city’s famed cathedral, pairing the images with a simple pledge to keep moving forward together: “Life is ours, we live it our way… 9 years of us.” The posts quickly ricocheted across country outlets and fan accounts, transforming a private toast into a public valentine.

The Cologne celebration wasn’t a random backdrop. Jelly Roll had just performed in the city on September 1, part of his first-ever run of headline dates in Germany and the Netherlands — a landmark for a Nashville star who built his audience from road grit, hard-won radio play, and streaming believers. Tour listings and fan setlist pages show Cologne anchored that week’s European routing, offering the couple a rare window to mark the date together on the road.

On Instagram, Bunnie XO led with gratitude and understatement — a style her audience has come to expect from a creator whose brand is equal parts candor and humor. “Life is ours, we live it our way,” she wrote, punctuating the caption with “9 years of us ✨.” Jelly Roll amplified the moment on his own stories, adding “9 years” and a vow of growing affection that fan outlets captured in real time. The sentiment resonated widely: the message felt less like a celebrity press note and more like a snapshot of two people choosing, again, to do ordinary life — hand in hand — under extraordinary scrutiny.

The couple’s decision to celebrate abroad also nodded to a broader truth about their relationship: it has unfolded, often visibly, alongside Jelly Roll’s late-blooming ascent. In the last two years, he has bridged country, rock, and pop audiences while Bunnie XO has expanded her own footprint through the “Dumb Blonde” podcast and a slate of entrepreneurial projects. That dual rise has made their marriage a continuing subplot in the Jelly Roll story, from backstage banter to red-carpet moments, and helped fans feel invited into the small pauses between the big stages.

Context matters here. The pair’s origin story — a 2015 meeting at a Las Vegas show and a spontaneous 2016 chapel wedding — has been retold across magazines and award-show greenrooms, and it helps explain why a brief European detour could land with such warmth in Nashville. In an industry that often commodifies polish, their appeal has been their unvarnished throughline: they don’t pretend the journey has been tidy, only that it’s been shared. The Cologne images (jeans, laughs, arms linked) read like a continuation of that promise.

Industry watchers noticed the logistics, too. European dates are still a relative rarity for U.S. radio-driven country artists, and Jelly Roll’s German and Dutch shows — announced earlier this summer — signaled a strategic expansion that goes beyond one-off festival slots. That the anniversary fell amid those bookings gave the couple a natural stage for a message with cross-Atlantic reach: however far the venues stretch, the center holds.

By late afternoon on September 2, country trade sites and local radio blogs had aggregated the posts, contextualizing the photos with fan-favorite details: Cologne Cathedral as the backdrop, the “9 years of us” refrain, and Jelly Roll’s tender add-on, “I love you more and more every single day.” As quickly as the items appeared, the moment moved from “celebrity tidbit” to something closer to a relationship check-in for a fan base that has, for years, treated the couple as a package deal.

Nine years is not an eternity, but in modern celebrity terms it can feel like one — especially when the road is your office and your living room. That is why these modest anniversary posts landed with outsized affection: they offered the familiar texture of real life (a quick photo stop, an inside-joke caption) against the grand scale of a tour map. For fans who have watched Jelly Roll’s career accelerate and Bunnie XO’s media footprint widen, Cologne wasn’t only a pin on an itinerary; it was a waypoint in a story still very much in progress.

If there was a headline beneath the headline, it was this: the couple continues to make room for ordinary rituals, even as the stage lights intensify. And that, perhaps, is why the posts drew such a chorus of congratulations — not for the grandeur of the setting, but for the simplicity of the message. Nine years down, an open road ahead.