Rory Feek ties the knot with
his daughter's schoolteacher in rustic Montana wedding - eight years after the
passing of his wife and singing partner Joey.
Country singer Rory Feek has announced
he has wed his girlfriend Rebecca.
The country singer, 59, revealed the marriage
on his blog, and even gave fans an inside look into the rustic wedding via a music video he
created for a song he had written for Rebecca, entitled 'I Do.'
Feek married Rebecca, his daughter's schoolteacher,
in Greycliff, Montana on July 14.
The marriage comes eight years after Feek's
wife and singing partner Joey tragically passed at age 40 following a battle with
cervical cancer. Together, they made up the country singing duo Rory + Joey.
The daughter he shares with Joey, Indiana, was ultimately the one who gave Rory and Rebecca
the permission they both wanted to marry.
Rory described how he and Rebecca initially
kept their romantic relationship under wraps from Indiana, hoping she would
'"figure it out" on her own.'
On his blog, he described how he wanted Indiana's
approval of his romantic relationship with Rebecca before they moved forward with the wedding.
Feek said neither he or Rebecca wanted to interfere in Indiana's connection
with her late mother.
'As I had written in my Love Comes
Softly blog post in the Spring, Rebecca and I had committed to be together. To
choose each other and see where it might lead. And although we knew marriage was a possibility,
it wasn't something that either of us felt like we could seriously talk about,' he wrote.
'Mostly because up until that time Indiana only saw Rebecca as "Miss Rebecca" her schoolteacher
and our friend. And although she had become much more than that to me, I was very careful to let
Indy "figure it out" on her own. And honestly, I wasn't really sure if she ever
could, or would, at all.'
'Her love for her Mama is so great and so
big in her life. Neither Rebecca or I wanted to hurt that in any way. And so we just waited
and watched to see if it might ever occur to Indiana that Rebecca could be more than
just a friend to her Papa, and to her.'
Eventually, Indiana proposed the idea of a
wedding between her father and Rebecca.
'And then one morning in late March when Rebecca
came to the farmhouse to take Indy to school we all said a little prayer together to start the
day, and then they headed out the door as they usually do. But a few moments later, they
came back in the kitchen and Rebecca said, "Rory, Indiana just asked me something
that I think you need to hear.”
'I asked Indy, and she told me that she said,
"Ms Rebecca, I think you should marry Papa…".
'Of course, I was happy, but caught off
guard and told her that that was something we'd all have to start praying about.
'And then Indy looked at me and said "and I told Miss Rebecca that my Mama’s been
gone a long time. And if she marries you, maybe she could be my new mother..."'
'Needless to say, as I wiped away some tears, I told her I thought that was a wonderful
idea. And after more prayer and conversation. We settled on a plan and a date…'
During their marriage ceremony, Feek surprised Rebecca with the song
he had written for her, I Do.
Feek kept the song a secret from Rebecca as
he penned it ahead of the wedding, but did test it out on a crowd at one of his shows.
The wedding comes eight years after the death of Rory's wife and singing partner, Joey.
Joey, who was one half of the country duo Joey+Rory, died on March 4, 2016, at the age
of 40 after battling cervical cancer.
The death made Rory a single dad to their daughter
Indiana. She was just two when her mother passed.