They were on stage performing a duet of his song Hotel Yorba when he popped the question — right before the line “Let’s get married/In a big cathedral by a priest.” White also captioned a photo on Instagram of the romantic, spontaneous moment with the same lyric. Ben Swank, co-founder of White’s Third Man Records, stepped onstage to officiate the impromptu exchange of I dos. A rep for the White Stripes rocker told People at the time that “the marriage is legal and valid.” Jean
later told the New York Times that it was “the best experience of my life.” She added: “You could plan a wedding for five years and it wouldn’t compare to that.” RECOMMENDED VIDEO How they met It was music that brought the White and Jean together. They first met in 2009, following a concert for his band The Dead Weather, per the Times. The then-19-year-old frontwoman of the Black Belles laid out a bunch of her demos around White’s tour bus in a very memorable
way — which he witnessed. He later called and invited Jean to record with him in Nashville. “I put the phone down and then I just laid on the ground for a few minutes,” she recalled to the publication. “Like, this is not real. This can’t be real. This doesn’t happen to people.”
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