How Little Big Town Bandmates Karen Fairchild and Jimi Westbrook Fell in Love

• Little Big Town singer Karen Fairchild is married to the group's guitar player, Jimi Westbrook.
• The band members got together after Karen's divorce and have been married since 2006.
• Karen and Jimi have a thirteen-year-old son, Elijah.

All four members of Little Big Town are close. In fact, the country group consisting of Karen Fairchild and Kimberly Schlapman on vocals and Philip Sweet and Jimi Westbrook on guitar has described their band as "one big marriage." For two of its members, though, that's literally the case: Karen Fairchild, 53, and Jimi Westbrook, 51, said "I do" more than a decade ago.

The married members of the band are now an iconic couple in country music. But things weren't always that way.

Karen found love with Jimi after her divorce.

When the group first formed in 1998, Karen was still married to her first husband. A few years later, in 2002, they divorced—and eventually, Karen and Jimi were drawn to one another.

"I think there was always something underlying there that we were trying to ignore," Jimi said in an interview with Great American Country.

"Then when the opportunity came, when all of us ended up single at the same time—a very strange turn of events for the band in a lot of different ways—those feelings, you were able to come out with them finally," he continued. "It was like, 'We're single. Let's get together.' She has a beautiful heart and she's absolutely gorgeous and I just love her dearly."

The musical couple got married in Nashville.

The couple complemented one another just as well as their musical talents do, and Karen and Jimi secretly married in a Nashville wedding on May 31, 2006—the same year their bandmate Kimberly remarried following her first husband's tragic death.

"I think Jimi and I had a special friendship and connection that blossomed when we were both single," Karen said in a 2010 interview with Us Weekly. "Sometimes you just have to cross that line and take a chance and when we had that opportunity we did. Of course we didn't want to mess up the band but we decided it was worth the risk."