The singer shared the details of his super-sweet proposal to new fiancee Amber Cochran.
Recently, Brantley Gilbert visited WYRK in Buffalo, N.Y. for an interview on Thursday (Jan. 29) and the conversation turned to his upcoming wedding. Gilbert revealed that he wrote a very special song before he proposed.
“I wrote a song to her dad, actually,” he shared.
“It was called ‘Your Little Girl.’ We’d known each other for 10 years. We hadn’t seen each other for five, or talked for five. I was kinda going through some stuff and acting like an idiot, and she wasn’t gonna be a part of it. So we ended things, and while we weren’t talking, her dad actually passed away.”
Gilbert adds, “Me and her dad always had a cool little thing. Her mom knew I was trouble, and he did, too, but we kinda joked around, and we were buddies until the girls walked in, and then he had to be all serious. But I wrote him a song, and I actually stopped by and saw him at his grave that day, and put the song down. That was my way of asking for his blessing. Since I couldn’t ask him for it, I just kinda talked to him a little bit, and then I sang that song to him, and asked her to marry me. And by God, she said yes.”
They have been planning a June wedding.
“I just want to make sure … she gets what she wants and she’s gonna be happy with it,” he says. “I’m getting to marry her…, so I’m happy.”