John Michael Montgomery’s son Walker Montgomery engaged with Krista Slaubaugh (exclusive)

Country Artist Walker Montgomery is engaged!

Walker, son of John Michael Montgomeryproposed to the country artist Tigirlily goldS Krista Slaubaugh On Monday 26 May at a crystalline pond surrounded by the lush Blue Ridge Mountain Forest in North Carolina.

“I was overwhelmed in the best way,” says Krista, who is half of her country music duo with her older sister, Kendra Slaubaugh.

She says to people, “You are waiting for that moment all your life, and I just wanted to remember and soak it as much as possible.”

Walker planned a surprise to the couple, drove from Nashville and pulled into “foggy and romantic” Old Edwards Inn and Spa In Highlands, North Carolina, late May 25. Krista didn’t think anything about Walker booking a massage for her the next day and told her to be ready “by 4 (PM).”

That night, Walker drove his girlfriend for almost two years to a “completely beautiful” and “sweet little Kesa house”, called “The Farm.” Together they walked down a stone track wound around the property that revealed a small pond with a fountain -spraying drops upwards, which cascked down and sent soft ripples over the sparkling surface of the water.

Walker was “a little nervous” because he wanted everything to go “perfect”, especially because he had planned the special moment for “months.” Since their arrival he had “pray that it was not raining”, but there was a certain downfall earlier in the day, which caused him and Krista to “almost fall over.” “But we kept to each other,” Krista noted.

It was when the couple stopped on the pond’s little jetty that Krista began to put together the pieces. Between Walker’s “very nice” words and his “huge flowers,” Krista “knew what would happen.” Her “stomach began to tighten” and she did “Black Out too little” when Walker took her in both hands before dropping down on one knee.

“He said, ‘Krista, I want you to be my wife. Will you marry me?’ “Singer” Shoot Tequila “is reminiscent of. “I said” yes “and immediately leaned down to kiss him. He then stood up and slid the ring on my finger.”

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Krista’s “perfect” engagement ring from Diamond Gallery in Lexington, Kentucky, has an elongated, brilliant diamond on a gold band.

“It’s elegant but is still modern and feels like me,” says Krista. “With the gold band it is a ring that 40 years later I will still love just as much. It is also so shiny !! he did well.”

After Krista accepted Walker’s proposal, she recalls the country artist who asked her: “You said” yes “right?” They “both began to laugh and cry.”

“Of course there were some happy tears, but after the proposal I felt such excitement and joy,” she says. “We had known for a while now that we wanted to spend our lives together, so the biggest feeling was joy and excitement. I couldn’t have imagined it more perfectly.”

Walker adds, “almost immediately after that the sun began to shine down on the dock at the dust that we were standing on. It was perfect!”

The couple, who even had mutual band members at a time, met in the fall of 2023 when Walker had a concert in Kansas City, Missouri. At that time, “I love the way you love me” singer in Krista “in the most indirect way.”

“There was a group of ladies there who asked him during his meeting and greeting if he knew Tigirlily gold, and he said, ‘Yes. Tell the high that I’m in love with her.’ (I am the high to clarify), “remember Krista. “This message came to my mom’s friend, my mom and then to me. I went into his DMS pretty shortly after and said,” How is Kansas City recently? “

“I was quite obsessed from the beginning to say the least,” says Walker. “I had never met anyone so beautiful and elegant.”

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A few weeks later, Walker and Krista went on his first date. Walker remembers laughing “so much” and immediately knowing that he had “found something special in her.” By Valentine’s Day Krista Walker knew “it.”

“I had never felt so understood and safe by another person, and he had written me a note that made me cry,” she says. “Everything clicked at that moment. This man would be my husband.”