In reality, they came thisclose to weding other individuals in their early twenties up until her daddy stepped in. “The night of her sister’s graduation party, we were buddies and I was there. I’d loved that girl since high school, and I told her father how I felt,” he remembered in a 2019 interview with HITS Daily Double. “He said, ‘If you don’t tell her, I’m going to.'”
His next relocation was “an overall Ryan Gosling minute,” he informed the outlet. “I said to her, ‘I just want to kiss you one time. If you don’t feel anything, we can go back to being friends.'” Spoiler alert: He got the lady, Akins composing in her book, “That one moment, that one kiss on my parents’ front porch, changed everything.”
Because there he was, some 6 months later on, making another vibrant relocation. “Me and Lauren are big on drinking wine and signing the bottles with a silver sharpie,” he described to Taste of Country. So one night, simply ahead of Christmas, he collected both of their households in a personal space at her preferred Nashville area, Giovanni’s. “There was a bottle of wine sitting there. I pulled out a sharpie and put ‘Marry me’ on the bottle.”
