DISTINCTIVELY SOUTHERN WEDDING | The Inspiration
ICONIC DUOS
Make Their Home in Middle Tennessee
BY HOLLIE DEESE ALL PHOTOS COURTESY OF CMA
TRUE LOVE HAPPENS EVERY DAY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE, EVEN FOR THOSE IN THE PUBLIC EYE. HERE ARE SOME OF OUR FAVORITE FAMOUS LOCAL COUPLES LIVING LIFE HAPPILY EVERY AFTER.
GARTH BROOKS & TRISHA YEARWOOD Home base: Goodlettsville Wedding date: December 10, 2005 How they did it: At home in Owassa, Oklahoma Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood first sang together on the duet “Like We Never Had a Broken Heart” from her self-title debut album in 1991. A good team, they did it again on “In Another’s Eyes” in 1997. Married to other people, the two remained friends though he admitted there was always chemistry between them. After she divorced in 1999 and he in 2000 they immediately began dating. He proposed very publicly in May 2005 in front of 7,000 people at the unveiling of a bronze statue of himself at Buck Owens’ Crystal Palace in Bakersfield, California, but their wedding was much more low-key. AMY GRANT & VINCE GILL Home base: Belle Meade; a Williamson County farm Wedding date: March 10, 2000 How they did it: A rainy hillside ceremony in Williamson County Rumors began swirling as soon as the couple first met and began working together in 1993. Their chemistry was undeniable, but they were both married to other people – he to singer Janis Oliver and she to TV host and Christian singer Gary Chapman, with whom she had three children. Grant asked Gill to sing on her new song “House of Love,” and the accompanying music video is a testament to that chemistry, which only grew as they did shows to promote the song. He divorced in 1997, she followed suit two years later and it wasn’t long before they were together. She was barefoot when they married, as bagpipes played just outside Nashville.
NICOLE KIDMAN & KEITH URBAN Home base: Nashville Wedding date: June 25, 2006 How they did it: A lavish Sydney, Australia affair It may seem odd to have two Aussies – one a glamorous Hollywood icon, the other a country singer – living among the rest of us in Green Hills but somehow the two of them are as natural in Nashville as they can be. The longtime pair first met in 2005 at the G’Day USA gala honoring Australians in Los Angeles, but it took months for him to gather the courage to call her. Once he did, he had the Oscar winner hooked pretty quickly. They got married the following year at a fabulous Sydney ceremony back home, and are now the parents to two daughters, Sunday Rose and Faith Margaret. 82 YOURWILLIAMSON.COM | WINTER 2017