Rains gave the country music star a strange look and bitcoin trading websitesBrooks replied, "Because I have a love that's going to do the same thing."
Brooks detailed in his book that leading up to the proposal, Yearwood was in Cincinnati for work, which gave him the opportunity to fly down to Georgia and pick up her parents.
"I have Jack and Gwen all to myself on a plane, and I ask them for their daughter's hand in marriage. This was in the spring of 2005, and I get their permission. And now I have to ask the three daughters," Brooks wrote.
Yearwood mentioned at this point in the book that she would've "loved" to say she knew her now-husband was up to something, but she "had no clue."
Now it was time for Brooks to ask his three daughters, Taylor, August and Allie, for their permission to marry Yearwood. Brooks shares his kids with his first wife, Sandy Mahl. They were married from 1986 until they divorced in 2001.
"I tell the girls to get dressed up for dinner. ‘What are we going to dinner for, Dad?’ I said, ‘We’ll go out tonight and I'll tell you.' So, they're ten, eight and six years old at this point. We're eating dinner, and we started talking about the future," Brooks wrote. "And August or somebody said, ‘Dad, are you getting around to ask us about you marrying Trisha?’ And I said, ‘Yes, I am.’ And they were all fine."
"I said, ‘But this conversation goes deeper than that. She doesn’t have children, so if something happens to me, you have to take care of her. So, you three and Trisha are going to have to get married, as well. You'll exchange rings, vows, everything.'"
Brooks wrote that this conversation with his three young daughters made him very emotional.
"Then, Allie, at six years old, puts down her fork, looks at me, pats me on the arm, and says, ‘We got your back, bra strap.' That was it. ‘We got your back, bra strap.’ Conversation over," Brooks wrote.
Brooks wrote that he also asked for his ex-wife's blessing before the big proposal.
"If Sandy would've said no, then that would've affected a lot of things. The brakes would've came on because we'd have to love together as a family," he said. Thankfully for Yearwood and Brooks, Sandy did not have any issue with the two getting married. In fact, she thought it was the "right move for our family."
Brooks' friend, Fred Reiser, was the mastermind behind the entire proposal. Reiser made a deal with Haggard that if he attended the event, he could close the show and Brooks booked a private plane for Jones.
"When they unveiled the statue, I took Miss Yearwood's hand. They've already unveiled Haggard, Jones, Strait… I mean this is pretty fricking cool. And I look at Trisha and point to that ring, and it was like everyone was there, but nobody was there but us.
"And the first thing she did was grab her face and start shaking her head from side to side, and I thought, ‘Oh s--t, did I misread this one?’" Brooks wrote.
