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Celebrity weddings put a ring on Dallas' top society stories of 2024

Ryan Bingham and Hassie Harrison at an event in December 2023, blissfully keeping their marriage under wraps.

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Editor's note: As we look back at the most-read society stories of 2024, we see celebrity weddings took the cake. Readers loved knowing all the details about Yellowstone stars' secret nuptials, a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader's wedding to her sweetheart, and an ex-Real Housewives of Dallas star's happily ever after. We also had the the biggest engagement news of the year: Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott, who popped the question to his longtime love. Of course, glamorous galas and lavish luncheons were a hit with our philanthropic-minded readers, too.

Here are the 10 hottest society stories of 2024 in Dallas:

1.Yellowstone stars secretly get hitched at bride's Dallas family estate. Ryan Bingham and Hassie Harrison, who play sweethearts on the hit show Yellowstone, quietly wed in real life in Dallas last fall. While the couple revealed news of their hush-hush nuptials in a Vogue spread May 29, 2024 - setting the pop culture world on fire - the wedding actually happened October 7, 2023, a photo of the invitation in Vogue disclosed.

2. Dallas Cowboys QB Dak Prescott proposes to girlfriend with $1M ring. Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott took another step towards domestic bliss, this time with a marriage proposal: On October 17, Prescott got on bended knee to tender a proposal to his girlfriend, Sarah Jane Ramos.

Dak Prescott pops the question. Instagram

3. Southlake woman makes history as first U.S. immigrant to win Miss Texas. Annette Addo-Yobo, a 26-year-old woman born in Ghana, was crowned Miss Texas 2024, becoming the first United States immigrant to earn the title. Addo-Yobo represented Southlake in the statewide scholarship pageant, held Saturday, June 29 at the Eisemann Center for Performing Arts in Richardson and broadcast on WFAA. She will now go on to compete in Miss America on January 5, 2025.

Annette Addo-Yobo, Miss Texas Annette Addo-Yobo was crowned Miss Texas 2024 by Ellie Breaux, Miss Texas 2023. Facebook/Miss Texas 2023

4. Dallas' 10 Best Dressed bloom at 50th Crystal Charity fashion show. Some of Dallas' most fashionable and philanthropic arrived at the Neiman Marcus flagship store downtown on September 12, ready to "oooh" and "aaah" at Oscar de la Renta's pre-spring 2025 collection while also raising big funds for local beneficiaries. The Crystal Charity Ball's Ten Best Dressed Luncheon and Fashion Show is considered by many to be the unofficial start of fall society season, which spans galas to luncheons with celebrities galore. It was held in the run-up to the glittering 2024 Crystal Charity Ball, themed "New York Holiday."

5. Dallas Cowboys cheerleader Reece Weaver unveils sweet wedding details. Reece Weaver, a fan favorite on the hit Netflix series America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, married her college beau Will Allman in a fairytale wedding - complete with a Disney touch. The University of Alabama sweethearts wed in the bride’s home state of Florida on April 20, 2024. Despite the couple's posts of gorgeous photos on Instagram the last few months, the first behind-the-scenes details were reported by People magazine on August 9 (aka week one of Cowboys pre-season).

Reece Weaver Allman, Will Allman Cheers for the Allmans! Photo by Laura Perez Photography via Facebook/People

6. 44 Dallas Symphony debutantes dip and dance at regal Presentation Ball. Like graceful swans, 44 young women in billowing white ballgowns and long white gloves "Texas dipped" into society at the 38th Annual Dallas Symphony Orchestra League Presentation Ball on February 10 at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center. The culmination of nearly a year of parties, philanthropy, and training for the debutantes, DSOL Presentation Ball is one of the most glamorous, formal events in Dallas.

7. Matthew and Camila McConaughey surprise Dallas nonprofit with $100,000. Texas' leading man, Matthew McConaughey, and his wife, Camila, were not only the featured speakers at New Friends New Life’s 2024 fundraising luncheon, they ended up being the event’s biggest donors. The first part was planned. The second came as a generous surprise to the Dallas nonprofit.

New Friends New Life 2024 luncheon, Matthew McConaughey, Camila McConaughey Priya Murphy, Lisa Rocchio, Camila McConaughey, Matthew McConaughey, JoJo Fleiss, and Bianca Davis at the 2024 New Friends New Life Luncheon. Photo by Tamytha Cameron and Celeste Cass

8. RSVP to Dallas' 12 most glorious galas and fabulous fêtes of fall 2024. In early fall, it was time to steam the gowns, tailor the tuxes, and shine the shoes - fall fundraising season had arrived in Dallas. The season saw Cattle Baron's Ball gunning for the $100 million mark, Bravo Gala celebrating 15 years of the AT&T Performing Arts Center, and Two x Two Gala saying goodbye with no fewer than three posh parties. This was our guide.

9. Ex-Real Housewives of Dallas star remarries in dreamy Italian wedding. A former Real Housewives of Dallas star whose marital strife was a major part of her storyline has found her romantic, made-for-TV ending: Kary Brittingham married Mark A. Anderson in an intimate and glamorous wedding in Italy on June 20, 2024.

Kary Brittingham wedding Mark A. Anderson and Kary Brittingham wed in Italy on Thursday, June 20. Photo by Linda Puccio for People via Mark A. Anderson/Facebook

10. Dallas' most glamorous gala TWOxTWO celebrates its artsy grand finale. After two decades of dazzling art and millions of dollars raised, one of Dallas' highest-profile charitable events was calling it a night: The TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art Gala marked its final edition on October 19, with a ticketed preview party and fundraiser taking place at the Rachofsky House from 7-10 pm.

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the rich get richer

28 Dallas billionaires make new Forbes list of world's richest people

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According to Forbes, there has “never been a better time to be a billionaire” than in 2026, and the publication's newest World’s Billionaires List has revealed the 28 Dallas billionaires that have risen among the wealthiest worldwide.

Koch Inc. stakeholder Elaine Marshall and her family are the richest Dallas residents, ranking No. 71 on the global list with an estimated net worth of $30.9 billion. Her net worth has grown by $2.6 billion since last year.

Oil magnate Lyndal Stephens Greth and her family are the second richest Dallasites in 2026, ranking only six spots behind Marshall with an estimated net worth of $30 billion. Greth was the former chair of major oil production company Endeavor Energy Resources, which she sold to Diamondback Energy in 2024.

Out of the 390 billionaire newbies that made their debut onto the list this year, these two call Dallas-Fort Worth home: financial services investor Thomas Dundon, and oil and gas investor and data center businessman Toby Neugebauer and his family.

Dundon made his debut on the 2026 list with a $2.3 billion net worth. Dundon founded subprime auto lender Drive Financial in 1997, sold the company to global banker Santander in 2015, and came away with $700 million out of the deal, Forbes said in his profile. He currently serves as the chairman and managing partner of Dallas-based private investment firm Dundon Capital Partners. Most recently, Dundon sold his minority stake in the NHL's Carolina Hurricanes, and is in the process of buying NBA team the Portland Trail Blazers.

According to Forbes, Neugebauer was the CEO and executive chairman of the short-lived controversial "anti-woke" fintech startup GloriFi, which filed for bankruptcy in 2023. Neugebauer has since been embroiled in what Bloomberg Law described as a "complex legal back and forth" with the investors "related to the control and eventual closure of the banking and financial services company he founded." But his $2 billion current net worth was enough to land him in a multi-person tie for the No. 2052 spot on the list.

Here's how the rest of Dallas' billionaires fared on this year's list:

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and family: ranked No. 128 with an estimated net worth of $20.3 billion, up from $16.6 billion in 2025
Banking and real estate mogul Andy Beal: No. 238, $12.6 billion, up from $12 billion
Money manager Ken Fisher: No. 226, $13.2 billion, up from $11.2 billion
Hotel and investment guru Robert Rowling: No. 402, $8.8 billion, up from $8.5 billion
Oil and gas tycoon Kelcy Warren: No. 477, $7.8 billion, up from $7.1 billion
Oil and real estate titan Ray Lee Hunt: No. 623, $6.6 billion, down from $6.8 billion
Real estate bigwig H. Ross Perot Jr.: No. 649, $6.5 billion, up from $4.6 billion
Media magnate Mark Cuban: No. 694, $6 billion, up from $5.7 billion
Margot Birmingham Perot, widow of tech and real estate entrepreneur H. Ross Perot Sr.: No. 720, $5.8 billion, up from $5.3 billion
Oil and gas honcho Trevor Rees-Jones: No. 694, $6 billion, up from $5.2 billion
Private equity firm co-founder Carl Thoma: No. 730, $5.7 billion, up from $4.4 billion
Oil and gas magnate Ray Davis: No. 1108, $3.9 billion, up from $3.6 billion
Biotech entrepreneur Ben Lamm: No. 1108, $3.9 billion, up from $3.7 billion
H-E-B executive Stephen Butt & family: No. 1325, $3.2 billion, up from $3.1 billion
Real estate mogul Fernando De Leon: No. 1376, $3.1 billion, up from $2.8 billion
Banking businessman Gerald Ford: No. 1376, $3.1 billion, up from $2.7 billion
Media entrepreneur Todd Wagner: No. 1834, $2.3 billion, up from $1.9 billion
Kansas City Chiefs owners Clark Hunt and family, Daniel Hunt and family, and Sharron Hunt and family: tied for No. 2052, $2 billion, up from $1.6 billion
Telecommunications founder Kenny Troutt: No. 2386, $1.7 billion, flat since 2024
Online auction CEO A. Jayson Adair: No. 2481, $1.6 billion, down from $2 billion
RealPage founder Stephen Winn: No. 2600, $1.5 billion, flat since 2024
Oil tycoon and film producer Timothy Headington: No. 3017, $1.2 billion, flat since 2024

Missing from the 2026 list is tech entrepreneur Darwin Deason, who died in December 2025. Deason, 85, founded Dallas-based information technology company Affiliated Computer Services in 1988 and later sold it to Xerox in 2010.

Elsewhere in Dallas-Fort Worth, Walmart heiress Alice Walton has maintained her elite status as the world’s richest woman for the third year in a row. Walton knocked French L’Oreal heiress Françoise Bettencourt Meyers down to second place in 2024, and has remained at the top ever since. Walton is the 14th richest person on the planet, moving up one spot on the list from last year.

Walton’s current net worth is estimated at $134 billion, an eye-catching $33 billion higher than her 2025 net worth of $101 billion. She is the first American woman worth $100 billion, and one of only 20 “centi-billionaires” worldwide claiming 12-figure fortunes, also known as the "$100 Billion Club."

Elsewhere in Texas, Austin billionaire Elon Musk was declared the world's richest person for the second consecutive year, and Forbes said his “grip on the top spot is as strong as it’s ever been.”

“Musk became the first person to hit $500 billion in wealth, in October,” Forbes said. “Then $600 billion and $700 billion, within four days in December. Then $800 billion, in February.”

The Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI founder’s current net worth has skyrocketed to $839 billion — a shocking $497 billion more than his 2025 net worth.

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