Friday August 8, 2008
Jewel and Rodeo champion Ty Murray arrive at the 41st Annual CMA Awards at the Sommet Center on November 7, 2007 in Nashville TN.
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Jewel is a married woman!
The singer, 34, and rodeo star Ty Murray eloped on a beach at the Atlantis/Cove Resort in the Bahamas on Thursday, the couple confirmed in a statement to Usmagazine.com.
"I dreamt about this day since I was a little girl on a ranch in Alaska," Jewel said in the statement. "It was relaxed and romantic. I wore a traditional wedding gown and diamonds and he wore jeans and a button down shirt! Ty's definitely my perfect prince."
Said Murray: "We both have been so blessed in our lives. We're lucky to have each other and look forward to starting a family together."
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"Jewel is thrilled! It was so romantic," a source tells Us. "She looked beautiful! Her dress is gorgeous, the ring is gorgeous. They can't be happier!"
The couple have been together for more than a decade.
"Ty's been so supportive and steady," she told Redbook in 2006. "I always say he's a stand-up guy in a world of flakes.
"He's very direct, very straightforward," she added. "You never have to guess with him. And that reliability is really comforting. Especially for somebody as capricious as myself."
The two share a 2,200-acre central Texas ranch with their shitzu George.
Born in Utah and raised on a ranch in Homer, Alaska, Jewel has said living on Murray's ranch "is comforting because I'm able to do the things I was raised with, like riding horses and doing branding."
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The 38-year-old Murray — who recently hosted Ty Murray's Celebrity Bull-Riding Challenge on CMT — also appears in her video for her new country single "I Do."
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Out of all of her albums, Jewel (who recently told Us she had no plans to wed) says Murray likes her latest effort, Perfectly Clear, the best.
"This is his favorite record of mine not because it's country but because my personality came through the most," she told the Toronto Sun in June. "I think he likes that."
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Posted by Alissa R at 8:53 am ET
