Searcy Wedding

Searcy (local pronunciation, SUR see) is the largest city and county seatGR6 of White County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 18,928 at the 2000 census. It is the principal city of the Searcy, AR Micropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses all of White County. Like Searcy County, the city takes its name from Richard Searcy, a judge for the Superior Court of the Arkansas Territory.

The city is the home of Harding University, a private college affiliated with the Church of Christ, and the state's largest private university. Harding College moved to Searcy from Morrilton, Arkansas in the mid 1930s, and it occupied the campus of the former Galloway Women's College. Regional ice cream producer and distributor Yarnell Ice Cream Co. is also headquartered in Searcy.