From Coworkers to a Longtime Marriage! Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood’s Relationship Timeline

1987

The future couple met while recording a demo together in a small Nashville studio as both were still struggling artists. However, Garth was taken as he married his college sweetheart, Sandy Mahl, the year prior.

“It’s strange because I felt that feeling like when you just meet your wife, but I’ve been married for 13 months,” Garth said during a 2013 appearance on Ellen DeGeneres‘ daytime talk show. He added about Trisha, “We had a lot more in common than I ever dreamed we did.”

1998

Garth and Trisha became Grammy winners together, taking home Best Country Collaboration With Vocals for “In Another’s Eyes.” The duet appeared on Trisha’s 1997 album, (Songbook) A Collection of Hits.

2002

The duo made their red carpet debut as a couple at the 33rd annual Songwriters Hall of Fame induction ceremony in New York City.

Their romance blossomed after Garth and Sandy’s divorce was finalized in 2000. Sandy later cited “The Thunder Rolls” singer’s hectic schedule for the failure of their marriage in the 2019 documentary, Garth Brooks: The Road I’m On.

“People constantly wanting your attention and yanking and pulling on him. He’d be gone eight to 10 weeks at a time. He’d come home, and there would be number-one parties, or shows, or CMAs, or ACMs, American Music Awards, so it was constantly going. But we both grew apart really, really quickly,” she revealed.

1995

An engagement and a wedding! Garth proposed to Trisha in May and seven months later they tied the knot on December 10, 2005, in a private ceremony at their Tulsa, Oklahoma, home. “It’s the perfect Christmas gift to each other. We could not be happier,” Garth said in a statement at the time.

2009

After taking time away from performing to spend more time with the three daughters he shares with Sandy, Garth began a five-year residency at the Wynn Las Vegas. Trisha frequently joined her husband on stage, to the thrill of audiences.

2010

The future Food Network star published the cookbook Home Cooking with Trisha Yearwood. Garth wrote the forward and lent some of his own personal favorite recipes, including “Garth’s Breakfast Bowl.”

Made up of eggs, cheese, bacon, tortellini and hash browns, Trisha told Redbook, “You really don’t need to eat again all day after you’ve had one. It’s pretty fantastic.”

2014

After wrapping up his Las Vegas residency, Garth and Trisha embarked on a three-year world tour together, called The Garth Brooks Tour with Trisha Yearwood.

“You’re looking at the luckiest, most blessed guy on the plane. I’m madly in love with her, and I can’t stand to spend a day without her,” Garth gushed to reporters ahead of the opening night of their tour at Chicago’s Allstate Arena.

2015

In addition to being by each other’s sides in real life, the couple got the 64th and 65th stars on the Music City Walk of Fame in Nashville. Naturally, they were placed side-by-side.

2017

Garth and Trisha wrapped their world tour with seven sold-out shows at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena.

“It’s been three years of your life with your best buddies out there so you’re proud of your work but at the same time you hate to see it end because this is how you become accustomed to your days,” Garth told People about how he would miss life on the road as well as the couple’s touring crew.

2021

A very proud Trisha shared a moving message when Garth was a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honor in 2021.

“Words cannot describe how proud I am of you. To watch you receive this honor was such a privilege. I will be forever grateful to stand by your side and do this life with you! For a moment, on this night, all the world was right,” she wrote on X.

2022

The Trisha’s Southern Kitchen host shared an adorable Valentine’s Day post, showing the pair kissing and writing in the caption, “Happy Valentine’s to the man of my dreams!! xo.”

2023

The “Georgia Rain” singer joked about how alike they were when it came to celebrating their 18th wedding anniversary. Next to a photo of very similar-looking floral arrangements, Trisha wrote, “When your husband sends you flowers and you send him flowers and the card says exactly the same thing!”

2024

Garth and Trisha starred in their own Amazon Prime reality series about building and designing the largest celebrity-owned Nashville bar, Friends in Low Places Bar & Honky Tonk.