This couple knows firsthand what it means to wait for you love.
Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood are meant to be together.
Though, to truly realize it, the two needed more than 15 years.
Check out our video about one of the most touching love stories in country music!
Love from the first song.
When this sunny blonde with curly hair crossed the threshold into a recording studio back
in 1987, Garth Brooks did not give her as much as a glance.
How many of those ambitious cuties come to Nashville from all over the country, hoping
to get famous...and how many of them sadly leave with nothing?
It took only a couple of hours for Garth, during their demo recording, to fall for Trisha.
Trisha was radically different from most of his girlfriends; simple, open, and aware that
a musical career is foremost really hard work.
The song that they recorded was a demo for Trisha’s debut CD.
Brooks told her that if she got a record deal he would let her open his shows.
When Trisha left, a friend of Garth, the songwriter Kent Blazy, asked him: 'What did you think?'
Garth replied: 'Well, it's strange, because I felt that feeling like when you just meet your wife...'
Looks like a perfect beginning for a love story, doesn`t it?
There was only one "but"...
Garth had been married to his school sweetheart for more than a year... and Trisha had just
married musician Chris Latham.
And Trisha had just married musician Chris Latham.
Between friendship and love.
After their first meeting, Garth and Trisha stayed just friends and colleagues.
Brooks kept the promise he made in that recording studio, and two years later they went on tour
together with Trisha as his opening act.
Garth realized that he married the wrong woman but felt obligated to his wife, Sandy Mahl,
who had supported him throughout the years and always believed in his music career.
"So you being married, it's got to be right.
This is who you went to college with and you were married in front of God and your family
and everything,' Garth said in one interview.
The couple had 3 wonderful daughters together.
Garth loved them so much that in 2000, when he was at the peak of his career, he retired
to spend more time with his them.
Though, after a while, Garth and Sandy decided to separate and a year later they filed for divorce.
Divorce is always a painful period.
Support and friendly consolation, Garth had found in Trisha, who had not long before survived
a second divorce from Robert Reynolds.
In a very humble way, a romance between the two quietly transformed the longtime friendship
into something much deeper.
Will you marry me?
The whole of America remembers this proposal...
He proposed to her on May 5, 2005, in front of 7,000 happy fans at the unveiling of a
bronze statue of himself at Buck Owens’ Crystal Palace in Bakersfield.
It was magical when Garth pulled off the cloth to reveal a statue with a golden ring on his finger.
When Brooks pointed to the finger, Yearwood was shocked and told him:
“You’re not going (to do this) in front of these people?”
But he surely did!
He got down on one knee, took off his hat and asked her to marry him.
Despite all the years of living together, she was stunned.
Trisha`s friends recall: "Her knees were like Jell-O".
They tied the knot later that year at their Oklahoma home, in a quiet ceremony just for family.
Since then, Garth and Trisha`s partnership grew even stronger.
They had a successful tour, a great performance at the CMA Awards and the release of a joint album.
Brooks said he works to keep Yearwood by his side.
"I always introduce her as 'the love of my life,' and she introduces me as her current husband.
So, I'm just trying to keep the gig," he joked.
Now, they are trying to make up for the lost years.
They even accompany each other during working visits, just to be together whenever it is possible.
As Trisha opened up: "Garth gets up every morning and makes my coffee.
Right now I'm filming my cooking show and I'm getting up at 6 o'clock in the morning,
and he doesn't have to get up so early.
But he gets up and makes my coffee."
And the truth is that he does not even drink coffee ...
It is moments like this that keep love strong through the years, isn`t it?
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