Jon Batiste is not only a five-time Grammy winner, he’s also a newlywed.

The 35-year-old musician recently revealed that he privately wed author Suleika Jaouad back in February.

“We’ve been secret married until this moment,” Jaouad also shared while on CBS This MorningApril 3. We didn’t own wedding bands. “We used bread ties.”

It hasn’t all been happy for this couple over the past eight years. Jaouad (33) was first diagnosed with leukemia in November after she had entered remission in the 20s. She told reporters that she was now in remission after being diagnosed with leukemia two years ago. Jim AxelrodAccording to him, it is “far more aggressive now than it was a year ago.” 

So, the night before Jaouad’s bone marrow transplant, they said, “I do,” an event that would have one day happened for the pair regardless of health.

He said, “I want to make it very clear that I am not proposing to your because of this diagnosis. I took me over a year to create your ring. It has nothing to do the timing. This diagnosis does not change the fact that you are alive. She said that it made things clearer for her. We decided to do it after realizing that we still had a small window of time before we could get a bone marrow transplant.