Garth Brooks Shares Why He Asked Trisha Yearwood Not To Change Her Last Name

In an interview with Ellen, Garth Brooks admitted that he knew there was something special about Trisha Yearwood the moment he met her.

“Kent Blazy introduced me to Ms. Yearwood, and he goes, ‘I knew you were going to like her,’” Brooks recalled during an appearance on Ellen. “When she left, he goes, ‘What did you think?’ I said, ‘Well, it’s strange, because I felt that feeling like when you just meet your wife, but I’ve been married for 13 months.’”

Garth proposed to Trisha in May of 2005 at Buck Owens’ Crystal Palace in Bakersfield, California, in front of 7,000 people. But, their wedding was more of a private affair with the pair exchanging vows at their home in the presence of family members.