12. Despite all the excitement, Williams-Paisley credits the film with changing her entire life, including leading her to her real-life husband. Brad Paisley. In 1991, the future country star was still an aspiring musician, and for him and the girl he was dating, “it was like their movie,” Williams-Paisley shared with E! News. Yet the 18-year-old singer found it difficult to focus on anything other than the insanely attractive actress he saw on screen.
Four years later, newly lonely and a little sad, he returned to the theater for Father of the Bride, Part Two and again found himself fascinated by the star. “I thought she seemed like a great girl—smart, funny and all those things that are so hard to find,” he said. Good cleaning.
He went on to write a song about his experience watching the film for his 2001 album. Part II. And at that point he told the magazine: “It was natural to invite her to be a part of it. Although I didn’t know if she was married, divorced, or just out of rehab.”
The actress was none of these things, but she was intrigued. “He woke up one morning and decided he wanted to call me, so I said yes because I like people who are interested,” she said. recalled to Meredith Vieira“We started dating and got engaged shortly after.”
After they won the cutest meet, this is a story they shared a couple of times. “It's funny, when we tell the story of how we met, he's like, 'Oh yeah, this is what happened: I dated this girl and blah, blah, blah,' and that's his whole version of how he saw me in that movie,” Williams-Paisley told E! News. “And my version is, 'Oh yeah, well, he was pursuing me and it was easier to marry him.'
