The tragic loss of Mattie’s first husband in a car accident in 2018 left her feeling “grateful is a gigantic understatement,” she said.
The illustrious country singer Alan Jackson’s daughter, Mattie Jackson, has discovered genuine happiness.
Eight months after announcing their engagement, Connor Smith, 30, and Mattie, 32, wed at The Breakers Palm Beach in Florida earlier this month.
The word “grateful” vastly understates how we feel about our accomplishments. She captioned an Instagram picture with a carousel of pictures from the big day, “More pretty pics to come later – off to the islands with my HUSBAND!”.
On Monday, Dad Alan, 64, posted a picture from the wedding to Instagram along with a message expressing how excited he and his wife Denise were to have a new son-in-law join the family.
Connor Smith has officially joined our family, and Denise and I are overjoyed. I send @MattieJackson and Connor Smith my best wishes for eternal happiness. He captioned the photo “Livin’ on Love!” about his 1994 hit song “Livin’ on Love”.
The good news comes more than four years after Ben Selecman, Mattie’s first husband, passed away from a traumatic brain injury as a result of a fall and head injury in a tragic incident in September 2018. Ben Selecman fractured his skull after falling on a boat dock.
According to Mattie, the host of the podcast In Joy Life, who met Connor at a happy hour six months earlier through a common acquaintance, they started dating in April 2022.
She said, “I have believed, prayed for, and claimed for three and a half years now that God would give me the chance to love someone with my full heart again. My heart could heal and grow to love two people equally and uniquely, as other wonderful widow friends reassurances from their own widowhood. And that’s what I sincerely hoped would happen”.
She went on to say that Smith was “more of an answer to prayer (mine and countless others!) than I sometimes think he even realizes,” and that she was excited to see what this new chapter would bring. ”.
According to a post she made on Instagram, Mattie and Connor traveled to Saint Lucia for their honeymoon where they “adventured, rested, and drank local beer.”. Mattie was dressed in a strapless dress with an updo.
She wrote in the caption of her Instagram photo, “We shared headphones on the beach so we could listen to the same songs we did in high school.”. We played bocce ball, read books, and shared headphones. I’m so grateful for this wonderful man and our lovely honeymoon.
We enjoyed a wonderful time together while eating, swimming, and being together”.
