How did Dolly Parton meet her husband?
Dolly Parton’s meeting with her husband, Carl Dean, was, of course, an adorable, country tale.
According to Dolly, the pair met when she was fresh off the bus to Nashville, and she was washing her clothes at the local launderette.
Speaking to the New York Times in 1976, she said: “I’d come to Nashville with dirty clothes. I was in such a hurry to get here…
“And after I’d put my clothes in the machine, I started walkin’ down the street … and this guy hollered at me, and I waved.
“Bein’ from the country, I spoke to everybody. And he came over and, well, it was Carl, my husband.”
The pair kept their relationship pretty quiet and even married in almost-secret with only a small number of witnesses present.
The couple secretly married on May 30, 1966, and travelled to Ringgold, Georgia to have a private ceremony where only the couple, Dolly’s mother, the preacher and his wife were in attendance.
The couple even kept the marriage secret for some time, before Dolly finally opened up on her love life.