Keyon sat at a long white table under tiny white lights. If someone had told him a year ago that one day, he would be at the Windy Ridge Event Center at his own wedding to a rough-and-tumble mountain man, Keyon would have shot that person and maybe even laughed.

Now, he couldn’t imagine his life any other way.

Next to his husband, Keyon watched the women of Huck’s band play their most famous song. They sang In the Mountains while all around the room the wedding guests ...