Country music is full of songs about love, but it’s what plenty of artists live out in real life as well.  In addition to writing and singing songs about romance, there are plenty of couples who are living out their love songs in real life. Keep reading to find out more about the love stories of 11 of our favorite couples in country music right now.

1. Tim McGraw and Faith Hill

Few people have a love story like Tim McGraw and Faith Hill. The two tied the knot in 1996, and have maintained a strong relationship in the almost 28 years since then.

“Faith is invaluable to me in every way,” McGraw told The Tennessean. “But creatively, I trust her ears 100 percent. She still hears rough mixes of everything I record before anyone else does. And she’s a tough judge to please. She hasn’t liked even some of my hits when she heard them the first time. The beauty of all of this is that we love each other, trust each other’s instincts and glean everything we can out of each other to make our projects better.”

McGraw also praised Hill when he was honored with the ACM Icon Award at the ACM Honors.

“My world changed the day I met Faith Hill … You’re my partner in life, you’re my partner musically,” McGraw said during his speech. “And how blessed I am. I would not be where I am today, without you and your grace. I love you unconditionally.”

 

2. Carrie Underwood and Mike Fisher

Carrie Underwood and Mike Fisher tied the knot in 2010, and have since become the parents of two boys. The two took their vows of for better or worse seriously, especially when Underwood had an accident that caused facial damage, and also suffered three heartbreaking miscarriages.

“He is so levelheaded about everything, and when I was dealing with everything, not just emotionally but hormonally,” Underwood told People. “When you’re going on that roller coaster of pregnant, not pregnant, pregnant, not pregnant, I was probably not very easy to love, to be honest. And to have somebody so even-keeled, he was my lifeline, keeping me grounded.”

3. Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman

Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman wed in 2006, although their marriage was almost over soon after it began. Only four months after they got married, Urban entered rehab for substance abuse, fortunately emerging stronger — and sober, this time for good — as a result.

“We got married in June 2006 and barely four months into our marriage, my addictions that I’d done really nothing about, blew our marriage to smithereens,” Urban said in April (via People). “And I went into the Betty Ford Center for three months. Four months into a marriage I’m in rehab for three months. I had no idea what was going to happen to us.”

“And if you want to see what love in action really looks like, give that a whirl,” he continued. “Nic pushed through every negative voice, I’m sure even some of her own. And she chose love. And here we are tonight, 18 years later.”

4. Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani

Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani‘s sweet love story came about as the result of their own personal heartbreak. The two met on The Voice in 2014, when Stefani joined the cast as a coach. But it wasn’t until a year later, when Shelton was in the middle of divorcing Miranda Lambert, as Stefani’s marriage to Gavin Rossdale was ending, that the two became close, ultimately resulting in a beautiful love story that still surprises Shelton.

“If you would’ve told me the first season that we met that what was gonna happen, I would’ve been like, ‘No, we actually don’t even have anything to even talk about’… It’s crazy how things work out,” Shelton told Entertainment Tonight.

When Shelton, who wed Stefani in 2021, was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Shelton gushed about being married to Stefani.

“I kind of stopped checking things off my list of great accomplishments in my life when I married Gwen, so this is just icing on the cake,” Shelton said.  “I love you, so much, and that’s the great thing that’s happened along this journey.”

5. Luke and Nicole Combs

Luke Combs and his wife Nicole married in 2020, after starting to date in 2016. The couple, now parents to sons Tex and Beau, knew pretty early on in their relationship that they had found true love.

“I could tell she was different than anybody I had ever met,” Combs told Nashville Lifestyles.

“I realized we could hang out and just be ourselves in front of each other,” Nicole added. “I could wear no makeup and be my weird self — because we’re all weird, but we get to choose who to share that side of us with. We could be each other’s weird in front of each other. That’s when it was like, ‘You know what? This guy’s a keeper.’”

6. Scotty and Gabi McCreery

Scotty McCreery and his wife Gabi have been together since high school. It was Gabi who has been McCreery’s biggest cheerleader since his time on American Idol, and remains his biggest champion and supporter today.

“She’s right there in the middle of it. She’s my right-hand gal,” McCreery, who wed in 2018, recently said. “She hears every demo first. She hears the non-edited, work-tape version, when it’s just me and a bad vocal and a guitar. She’s really honest, and she’s great about ideas and what she’s thinking.”

In 2022, the couple welcomed their first child, Avery, with McCreery also praising his wife for her maternal skills.

“I thought I loved her a lot before. She’s the mother of my son, and now I’m finding that I love her even more,” McCreery told Music Mayhem. “She’s a champ. She’s working so hard and doing so great as a mom already. So, I’ll be writing for sure a lot of songs about her and definitely tying the kiddo into some songs. Maybe writing for him too. I think it’s all great things right now. We’re in a great season.”

 

7. Luke and Caroline Bryan

Luke Bryan and his wife, Caroline, met in college, where sparks immediately flew. Although the two ended up splitting up and then getting back together, Bryan was clearly smitten from the moment he laid eyes on Caroline for the first time.

“It was just love at first sight, college magic,” Bryan said. “It was pretty awesome.”

Bryan might be the superstar now, but it was Caroline who helped him in the early years of his career, supporting him while she worked in pharmaceutical sales.

“I paid the bills for a while ’cause Luke wasn’t making money,” Caroline said on the Uncut with Jay Cutler podcast (via People). “I never doubted him ever. I never doubted him once. He doubted himself a couple times, but I didn’t. He’s Luke. I knew that he could do it.”

8. Jelly Roll and Bunnie XO

Jelly Roll and Bunnie XO (real name: Alyssa DeFord) tied the knot in 2016, although nothing from their Las Vegas elopement hinted that their marriage would be going strong eight years later.

“She’s the best,” Jelly Roll gushed to Entertainment Tonight. “I am over the moon with that woman. I don’t see any other woman on earth but her.”

When Jelly Roll and Bunnie XO met, he was homeless, living in a van. It was his now-wife who also helped him get custody of his daughter, Bailee, whose mother was battling additction.

“Bunnie’s like, ‘Let’s just go get a condo so you have a bedroom for her.’ I’m like, ‘Alright, cool,’” Jelly Roll said. “So Bunnie comes down there. We’re getting a condo. I’ll never forget, Bunnie looked at me, and man, it makes me emotional. She said, ‘No matter what happens with us, I’m gonna help you get this little girl.’… Bunnie bankrolled [it], and she never talks about that,”

 

9. Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood

Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood married in 2005, after dating for a few years. The pair, who made their red carpet debut in 2002 as a couple, actually knew each other from very early in their respective careers. Brooks and Yearwood first met in a studio in the late ’80s, when songwriter Kent Blazy hired them to sing on a session together.

“I remember everything about it. I remember everything down to the clothes she was wearing.” Brooks previously remembered, during the Garth Brooks: The Road I’m On documentary.

Blazy later asked Brooks how he felt about meeting Yearwood, to which he replied, “It’s crazy, but I feel like I just met my wife.”

When Brooks and Yearwood married, Yearwood also became a stepmom to Brooks’ three daughters (from his first marriage to Sandy Mahl).

“It was a gift that I received from Garth and the girls of having them in my life that I didn’t even know I was missing,” Yearwood told SheKnows. “I can’t imagine my life without them.”

10. Thomas Rhett and Lauren Akins

Thomas Rhett and Lauren Akins were married in 2012, although they knew each other for most of their lives. The two were actually childhood sweethearts, with Rhett smitten even back then.

“I remember seeing Lauren for the first time in second grade, and I don’t know how much in love you can be as a second-grader, but I just remember being like, ‘She is extremely attractive,’” Rhett said on the SiriusXM’s Exit 209 with Storme Warren Podcast. “And then moving forward, I think the first time we ever actually really hung out was at church camp in sixth grade. There’s a hilarious photo on her Instagram page of us standing there, and I’m like a whole foot and a half shorter than her. I’ve got braces. I dyed my hair black that summer for church camp. She was always just a really kind person.”

Not that it’s all been easy for the couple. Akins recently recalled a tough time in their relationship, when they seemed to be near their breaking point, as the stress of his career began to take its toll on their marriage.

“I remember looking at him in the closet, after we had just screamed at each other,” Akins said on  on I Am Second. . “I said, ‘I hate you. I hate you, and I feel alone, and I feel lost, and I hate your career, and I hate the pressure that it puts on us, and I hate that we brought two little girls in this.’ I just dropped a bomb on him. He’s like, ‘Do you want me to quit? What do you want me to do? Tell me what to do and I’ll do it.’”

Rhett and Akins attended an intensive therapy session and are now stronger than ever.

“We really just did a restart, and that was when I feel like our marriage took off,” Akins says.

 

11. Kane and Katelyn Brown

Kane Brown and Katelyn married in 2018 and are now the proud parents of three. Both talented singers, the two combined their voices on the award-winning duet, “Thank God,” which was a dream come true for Brown.

“Kate’s always been an artist,” Brown said. “And she stepped back and is doing the mom and wife thing. She’s kept holding our house together, and she sings all the time. She loves music. So just to get to do that with her, and get to live her dream with her, means the world to me. Just to see how excited she is to be on stage. She’s a nervous wreck when it comes to any awards shows, so it will be fun just sitting there beside her.”

Brown would love to someday tour with his wife, although he reveals she much prefers the studio.

“She doesn’t like the stage… She likes the studio,” Brown explained on Apple Music’s Today’s Country Radio. “So, she’s always said, ‘Could we put an album out?’ I’m like, ‘You can put an album out, babe, but you’re going to have to tour it.’ She’s like, ‘I don’t want to tour it.’ I’m like, ‘Well, people are going to listen to it and they’re going to love it, and they’re going to want to see you and they’re going to want to see it live.’ So, then she gets freaked out about that.”