This Christmas, Shepherd had other ideas.
"There was one gift under the tree," he tells CultureMap. "And I told her, 'It's for you.'"
He'd gone out and bought himself a wedding band, which he presented to Brown. "And we hopped on a plane to New Orleans and got married," Brown adds.
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