Mitchell Tenpenny becomes engaged to longtime love of Meghan Patrick at the bar where they first met

Photograph of Hardcastle Mitchell Tenpenny and Meghan Patrick

You can remove your engagement from her “Bucket List!”

On Wednesday night, country star Mitchell Tenpenny proposed to his longtime girlfriend, singer-songwriter Meghan Patrick, at Losers Bar & Grill in Nashville, PEOPLE can exclusively reveal.

“I met Meghan here so it was the perfect place – and hey, I got engaged” at the end of a bar! “” Tenpenny jokes, referring to the title of his song with fellow hitmaker Chris Young.

He tells PEOPLE that he decided to propose this week because “I wanted our two families to be here”. Tenpenny, 32, says he asked Patrick’s dad for his hand the last time his family was in Nashville “and he gave me his blessing.” Patrick, 34, retorts: “What my father actually said he agreed was two goats, a cow and 10 chickens!

Photograph of Hardcastle Mitchell Tenpenny and Meghan Patrick

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Patrick, who was very successful in his native Canada, felt that Tenpenny might soon be asking the question. “With my family coming to town this weekend, I thought maybe, because we’ve been talking about it for a while,” she says. “But I wasn’t expecting that! It’s the most perfect engagement I could have ever imagined.”

Photograph of Hardcastle Mitchell Tenpenny and Meghan Patrick

Admits Tenpenny, “I had a whole talk planned and it was gone [in the moment]. I couldn’t say everything I wanted. I was nervous and relieved. She was crying, I was crying. All I wanted was to hear him say yes! “

“I also thought there would be all of these things I would have said,” Patrick told PEOPLE. “And all I could get out was ‘Yes!’ Then we both awkwardly tripped while trying to put the ring on my finger. “

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Photograph of Hardcastle Mitchell Tenpenny and Meghan Patrick

Tenpenny spoke to PEOPLE about his love affair with Patrick in September, saying it was love at first sight when they bumped into each other at the bar. (She was wearing camouflage, of course!) He also shared that he wrote “I can’t love you anymore” about her.

“There’s that ‘turn of phrase’ where it’s not what you think it is,” he said. “It’s basically saying, ‘I can’t love you more than I am right now.’ When we were writing it I realized that I was describing my girlfriend Meghan throughout the story. This song tells the story of our lives. “

Photograph of Hardcastle Mitchell Tenpenny and Meghan Patrick

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Tenpenny, who recently released his EP Midtown Newspapers, said previously The Daily Country that the pandemic helped him learn to live with someone else as the two moved in together during quarantine.

“I mean, I definitely learned a lot more about myself and my relationship back home… how to be more patient, how to live with someone,” he said. “We both learned patience and how to live with someone. It’s been a long time. I’ve never lived with someone of the opposite sex like that, so it was really learning each other, it brought us so close. “

He added: “And, I think it takes that vulnerability to accept each other’s differences.”