Dolly Parton & Carl Dean

“My first thought was, ‘I’m gonna marry that girl,’” says Carl, who met Dolly outside a laundromat in Nashville. They wed in 1966 and remained together as Dolly rode a rocket to stardom. Their marriage still works because they make time to be together. “I’ll cook the stuff that I know we love. And I pack it up in a picnic basket. And then we’ll go find some riverbank somewhere with our little camper, park, have a picnic,” says Dolly, who notes that Carl is a romantic, too. “In the springtime, when the first yellow daffodils come out...my husband always brings me a bouquet.”