Mitchell Tenpenny and Meghan Patrick.Photo: Haley Birdsey | @haleytbirdsey
Mitchell TenpennyandMeghan Patrickare officially Mr. and Mrs. Tenpenny, thanks to a wedding ceremony that featured several nods to those who tied the knot before them.
Tenpenny, 33, and Patrick, 35, who gotengaged last Novemberat the Nashville bar where they first met, went into wedding day on Sunday, Oct. 23 looking forward to seeing each other in wedding attire and saying their vows, they told PEOPLE exclusively. Both aspects of their special day went as planned, and now they can celebrate what they say they look forward to most in marriage: “Getting to call each other husband and wife.”
“Trust, respect, [and] never stop flirting or dating each other [keep our relationship strong],” they told PEOPLE ahead of their Goodlettsville, Tennessee wedding on a friend’s farm. “Fight for each other, not with each other.”
Mitchell Tenpenny and Meghan Patrick.Haley Birdsey | @haleytbirdsey
Meghan Patrick and Mitchell Tenpenny.Haley Birdsey | @haleytbirdsey
Meghan Patrick.Haley Birdsey | @haleytbirdsey
“We knew we could have our dreams and our relationship work together — we are each other’s best friend,” Patrick, who wore aRue De Seinedress and customLucchesesnakeskin boots, told PEOPLE.
Groomsmen.Haley Birdsey | @haleytbirdsey
Bridal party.Haley Birdsey | @haleytbirdsey
The wedding party.Haley Birdsey | @haleytbirdsey
The boots!.Haley Birdsey | @haleytbirdsey
While the wedding was executed as planned, the duo’s engagement was a little more off-the-cuff. Last year, Tenpenny — who just released his new LPThis Is The Heavy— told PEOPLE that he had a “whole speech planned” for his proposal, but that it “disappeared” on him in the moment. “She was crying, I was crying. All I wanted was to hear her say yes!”
“I also thought there would be all these things I would have said,” Patrick said. “And all I could get out was ‘Yes!’ Then we both awkwardly stumbled around trying to get the ring on my finger.”
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Before the engagement atLosers Bar & Grillin Nashville came the release of Tenpenny’s song “The Way You Are,” which he wrote with his wedding in mind for his EPThe Low Light Sessions.
“I was thinking about her upstairs watching movies,” Tenpenny told PEOPLE, remembering the day he wrote it. “I’m like, ‘Man, I’m living with this person for the rest of my life, and I don’t want her to change a thing.”
source: people.com