Rory Feek has remarried, eight years after the death of his wife. The 59-year-old country singer was left devastated when his spouse and musical partner passed away in March 2016 after battling cancer but he's now found happiness again with a woman named Rebecca, who is his 10-year-old daughter Indiana's teacher. In a post on his blog dubbed 'the wedding singer', Rory revealed he and Rebecca had married on 14 July "under a beautiful timber-frame pavilion" in Greycliff, Montana, with friends and family gathered at short notice for the celebrations.
Though the couple had "committed to be together", they hadn't felt they could "seriously" discuss getting married until Indiana herself suggested it, and Rory was moved to tears when she did. He wrote: "Although we knew marriage was a possibility, it wasn't something that either of us felt like we could seriously talk about. 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. "And then one morning in late March when Rebecca came to the fa.