When the bones are good, the rest don’t matter. Maren Morris and Ryan Hurd‘s love story has all the makings of a great country song.
Morris and Hurd met during a writing session for Tim McGraw’s song “Last Turn Home” in 2013.
“[Ryan’s] always been a creative collaborator in my life, that’s how we met,” Morris told Us Weekly exclusively in March 2019. “We were paired together six years ago to write a song. We didn’t know each other and it just kind of grew from there, so music has always been really intertwined in our love for each other, and now that we aren’t just songwriters, we’re artists.”
The duo were friends for two years before their relationship turned romantic. Hurd detailed their love story in his 2017 song “Love in a Bar.”
“We were just friends, just hanging / Just sitting ’round waiting for somebody to cross the line,” he sings. “And we’ve been saying it with our eyes the whole time / That you have my whole heart.”
After dating for nearly two years, Hurd proposed to Morris in July 2017. Less than a year later, the couple wed.
“I’ve learned so much from Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman,” Morris told Us about dealing with the long-distance relationship. “They’ve got the two-week rule; he’s got his kids out on the road. They just make it look so normal and it makes me and Ryan feel like this could be normal as well. We do a pretty good job at constantly keeping in contact, lots of FaceTime. We have the same manager now, so she helps our calendars really coalesce well and that’s helped it a good bit. Especially now that we’re married, it’s a little bit more important to us to see each other. We try to have a good balance.”
Morris and Hurd became parents in March 2020.
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The duo met during a writing session in Nashville. Amy Harris/Shutterstock
The twosome’s relationship went from platonic to romantic in 2015. Evan Agostini/Invision/AP/Shutterstock
Hurd popped the question on July 3, 2017. Debby Wong/Shutterstock
Us broke the news in March 2018 that the twosome exchanged vows in Nashville. Broadimage/Shutterstock
Not long after they tied the knot, Morris hit the road with Niall Horn during the summer of 2018. "It was probably the hardest part of our relationship,” the "Make Out With Me" songstress recalled to Esquire. “We went on our honeymoon, and then I immediately went on this gigantic tour opening for Niall Horan. It was more international touring than I had ever done. And I was gone more than I had ever been on any other tour." She added that it was a “tough summer,” noting they went to therapy together. “We have grown so much closer because we had to make some hard decisions and have some tough talks about what this future looks like and how we can make this better,” she told the magazine in 2019. “I have always loved him, but I feel like I like him in ways I never knew I could before." Frederick Breedon/PictureGroup/Shutterstock
Morris announced in October 2019 that she was pregnant with their first child. AFF-USA/Shutterstock
The couple welcomed their first child together, a baby boy, in March 2020. “Hayes Andrew Hurd. 3/23/20. Love of our lives,” the "Girl" singer wrote via Instagram. Courtesy Maren Morris/Instagram
Hurd fired back at mom-shamers after Morris was criticized for drinking on a pool float while holding Hayes, who was 3 months old at the time. “I’d just like to say, my wife usually doesn’t need me to defend her, but she’s a great mom,” he wrote in July 2020 via Instagram. “My kid was not unsafe on a float in 1 feet of water being held by an adult with 5 people watching so she could get a picture.” Courtesy Maren Morris/Instagram
“Went to the top of the world this weekend, drank martinis and looked at the prettiest Smoky Mountain view with my favorite human,” the “Feels” singer wrote via Twitter in November 2020, after celebrating her husband’s birthday in the Tennessee mountains. “Happy birthday, baby.” Courtesy Maren Morris/Twitter
In April 2021, the pair performed together for the first time, singing "Chasing After You" at the 56th annual Academy of Country Music Awards. Ryan Musick/Courtesy of Academy of Country Music/Shutterstock
Morris shouted out Hurd's skills as a dad in an Instagram post she shared in June 2021. "Happy Father’s Day @ryanhurd," she wrote, alongside a video of her husband humming along with their son. "You’re a natural. Like, you’re really, really good at this dad stuff." Courtesy Maren Morris/Instagram
The couple performed together during the ACM Party for a Cause in Nashville. "Last night under the stars ," Morris wrote alongside an Instagram photo of herself on stage in August 2021. Amy Harris/Invision/AP/Shutterstock
Hurd credited his wife's assistance in helping the creation of his debut album, Pelago. "The album wouldn't be existing without her doing ["Chasing After You"] with me and also just supporting me the last two or three years,” he told E! News in October. “I think it's my best writing and I'm really excited about it. I just love it." The “Craving You” songstress is also credited as a cowriter on the record, noting her pride via Twitter. “I cannot keep the tears in my eyes today,” Morris tweeted on October 15, reposting Hurd’s own post announcing the record’s release. “It’s so f—king hard as a new artist to put a full album out in an EP and ‘dRoP tHe SinGlE’ obsessed world and he did it. I am the proudest wife and co-writer that exists on this planet today. So, PASS IT ON.” Sanford Myers/AP/Shutterstock
The couple celebrated their joint CMAs nomination for Music Video of the Year for their duet “Chasing After You” at the November 2021 awards show. It was Hurd’s first CMAs nod as an artist. “It was an incredible night! Congrats to all the winners,” Hurd wrote via Instagram after the festivities. “I’ll never forget being nominated for the first time! Now let’s go get that NUMBER 1!” Morris also shared a series of snaps via Twitter from the night out with her husband, captioning them, “CMA with bae. Unrelated: Is Postmating Taco Bell today officially rock bottom?” Ed Rode/AP/Shutterstock
The “Circles Around This Town” songstress and her country crooner husband became the first married couple to be nominated for an ACM Award in the same year since Tim McGraw and Faith Hill in 2017. The twosome also coordinated their golden-brown outfits while walking the March 2022 awards show red carpet. Stephen Greathouse/Shutterstock
Morris sported a snakeskin dress at the Grammy Awards in April, while her husband rocked a gold suit. They joked to E! that their son should "go to bed," saying, "We miss you, Hayes!" Jordan Strauss/AP/Shutterstock
After walking the CMT Music Awards red carpet together, Morris enlisted the help of her husband to perform her new song, “I Can’t Love You Anymore” live for the first time during the awards show. Mark Humphrey/AP/Shutterstock
“I get to see him naked,” Morris captioned a pic with her husband after their Stagecoach Festival duet. John Amis/AP/Shutterstock
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