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. 

In addition to Indiana, Rory also has adult daughters Heidi and Hope from his first marriage.