Kellie Pickler Announces Engagement

Kellie Pickler is engaged. The singer has announced her betrothal to Nashville songwriter Kyle Jacobs. People magazine reports that Jacobs proposed on June 15 during a Florida beach vacation. The couple met about two and a-half years ago, and the proposal fell on the same day as Pickler’s late grandmother’s birthday.

“It turned out to be the most amazing day of my life,” Pickler told People. “My whole world changed. We both feel like we got my grandmother’s blessing.”

Jacobs’ songs have been cut by a number country music’s top artists, including Garth Brooks (“More Than a Memory”), Tim McGraw (“Still,”) Trace Adkins, Jo Dee Messina, Craig Morgan and Clay Walker.