Cash-Carter Wedding / Walk the Line

Country music icons Johnny Cash and June Carter were married here on March 1, 1968, one week after Cash proposed on stage in Ontario, Canada. They came to Franklin because in Kentucky they could purchase a license and marry on the same day, while their home state of Tennessee required a longer waiting period, and the wedding became national news. Cash and Carter were not the first country music stars to cross the state line to marry in Franklin, Kentucky; Kitty Wells married fellow musician Johnnie Wright here on October 30, 1937. Both couples remained married until separated by death many years later, and Johnny Cash and Kitty Wells were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

Franklin, Kentucky · United States