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Dolly’s career was picking up, and she and Carl were ready to get engaged. “When Carl and I told his mother that we were getting married, she was so excited that she was finally gonna get to do a wedding,” Parton recalled to CMT News about Dean’s mother’s reaction to hearing the news. Since her only child had run away with another man. Because of this, she was overjoyed at the prospect of hosting a lavish wedding reception.
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Dolly had to dampen the spirits of the Partons and the Deans, who couldn’t wait to meet their children when her label called with wedding plans. The executives didn’t want her wedding to detract from the work they’d done cultivating her image before she released her debut album. Dolly wanted to please everyone, but she wasn’t going to be deterred just yet.