Singer Rory Feek remarries 8 years after the loss of his 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 the age of 40, the country star has now tied the knot and married his partner Rebecca, a teacher who has taught his 10-year-old daughter Indiana for the past five years.

Rory announced in a blog post that he and Rebecca got married on July 14 in Greycliff, Montana, after Indiana encouraged the couple to do so.

“I asked Indy and she told me, ‘Miss Rebecca, I think you should marry daddy…'” Rory wrote. “Of course I was happy, but I was completely taken aback and I told her we all had to start praying about it.

“And then Indy looked at me and said, ‘And I told Miss Rebecca that my mommy has been gone for 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 with his own song called “I Do.” He incorporated scenes from their wedding into a music video.

Rory wrote that the couple’s wedding, which was attended by numerous friends and family, was for Indiana “the gift of having a mommy back in her life.”

“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 blog post in February, writing: “Although it turned out differently than I imagined, love has come back into my life. Not like a bolt of lightning or a clear voice from God, like Joey seemed to come into my life. It was more like a gentle breeze that blew in.”

“A whisper that can only be heard if the 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. Afterward, 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 openly documented his wife’s journey to cancer in his blog “This Life I Live”.

“My wife’s biggest dream came true today,” Rory wrote in an emotional blog post in 2016 on the day his late wife died. “She is in heaven. The cancer is gone. The pain has stopped. And all her tears have dried.”

This article was originally published on TODAY.com.