Singer Rory Feek remarries 8 years after losing wife and musical partner Joey

Rory Feek is a happily married man again.

Eight years after losing his wife and musical partner, Joey Feek, to cervical cancer at age 40, the country music star has tied the knot with his partner, Rebecca, a schoolteacher who has taught his 10-year-old daughter, Indiana, for the past five years.

Rory revealed in a blog post that he and Rebecca wed July 14 in Greycliff, Montana, after the couple was encouraged by Indiana.

“I asked Indy, and she told me that she said, ‘Ms Rebecca, I think you should marry Papa…’” Rory wrote. “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…’” he added.

At the couple’s wedding, Rory surprised Rebecca by performing an original song called “I Do.” He included scenes from their nuptials in a music video.

Rory wrote that the couple’s wedding, which was attended by several friends and family members, gave Indiana “the gift of having a Mama in her life again.”

“And Rebecca was given the gift of being a mother. And we became a family,” he said.

Rory revealed his relationship with Rebecca in a February blog post, writing, “Though it has arrived differently than I might have imagined, love has come into my life again. Not like a lightning bolt, or a clear voice from God, the way Joey seemed to come into my life. This has been more like a gentle breeze that has blown in.

“A whisper that can only be heard when a heart is ready to hear it,” he continued.

Rory and his late wife performed together in the popular country music duo Joey + Rory.

The couple married on June 15, 2002, after which Joey helped her husband raise his two daughters from a previous marriage.

Rory and Joey welcomed Indiana in 2014. Three months later, she was diagnosed with cancer.

Rory chronicled his wife’s cancer journey in candid updates on his blog, “This Life I Live.”

“My wife’s greatest dream came true today,” Rory wrote in an emotional 2016 blog post on the day his late wife died. “She is in Heaven. The cancer is gone. The pain has ceased. And all her tears are dry.”

This article was originally published on TODAY.com