Sara Briles is engaged to Joe Tippett after five years together.
The 43-year-old singer revealed in an Instagram post early Sunday morning on New Year’s Day that Tippett, 40, proposed to her.
“Yes to marry this man,” began the love song hitmaker.
“It’s an easy, earned, comfortable yes. @joetipps you are exactly what I want. The more I know you the more I know I love you… and you gave me some of yours. Introducing the parts I was afraid to love. And now I love me more because of you. So really it’s all about me. Just kidding. What a gift you are. Let the games begin. .Go through absolutely everything with you,” she wrote in the caption, along with a photo of the two gazing lovingly at each other.
According to People magazinethe Grammy winner and Tippett met while working together on the musical adaptation of Adrian Shelley’s 2007 film. Waitress During an out-of-town tryout at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts in August 2015.
Bareilly wrote the score for the film.
Two years later, the pair made their first public appearance at the opening night of The New Group’s play All the Fine Boys. the people And EWK’s Up Front Party and the 2017 Tony Awards.
In an old interview with the people, Bareilly spoke about her relationship with Bev, highlighting how he helped her recover when she contracted Covid in July 2020. “He did a good job of taking care of me,” she said. “He was a good friend and colleague through it all.”
Elsewhere in the interview, she shares her experience writing music while in a stable relationship. “I was afraid that if I was happy and content in a relationship, I would stop writing music,” she explained. “But now I’m looking for partnerships and moving around.”