Watch: Little Big Town Star Reveals Long-Kept Secret About Her Marriage

Little Big Town’s Kimberly Schlapman revealed a long-kept secret about her marriage when she joined Jenna Bush Hager as a guest co-host on TODAY with Jenna & Friends on Tuesday morning (January 28).

Schlapman married her husband, Stephen Schlapman, in 2006. She told Hager that “four people on the whole Earth” know about this secret, which she revealed to her parents over the phone 10 minutes before telling the story on the show. she said she was “still shaking thinking about it, but it’s nice to be free of that.” Schlapman later added that her children didn’t know this story until she told it on TODAY with Jenna & Friends.

“I was like, 'Mama, is Daddy there? Can he hear me? I have to tell you something.' And I told her, and she’s like, 'What?' And then finally I got more nervous and nervous, and then she started giggling, so it was OK,” Schlapman said. The Little Big Town star went on to share that she and her husband actually eloped several months before their wedding. “So, Schlap and I got married — my husband, I call him Schlap. Our last name is Schlapman. My late husband’s name was Steve. This one’s name is Steve. I can’t call both of my beautiful men Steve. So this is Schlap. So Schlap and I got married November 2006. But six months earlier, we eloped to Vegas.

“Nobody knew. No one knew,” Schlapman said when Bush Hager’s jaw dropped, and expressed surprise that the singer’s parents didn’t know until 10 minutes before the show. “We planned it. We planned that we were going to go [to Vegas] because we were meeting some family out at a big, beautiful lake out there. Elvis was at the reception. …Don’t judge. it was beautiful, and wonderful and it’s worked out.”

Schlapman performs in Little Big Town with Karen Fairchild, Phillip Sweet and Jimi Westbrook. Watch the clip from TODAY with Jenna & Friends here: