Singer Ruthie Collins On Motherhood and Her Marriage ceremony to Rory Mitchinson

Over the course of the previous two years, singer/songwriter Ruthie Collins fell in love, acquired married and had her first baby — and she or he stored all of it comparatively quiet.

“I’ve at all times believed that life was presupposed to be a gorgeous romantic journey and nothing else,” Collins, 40, tells PEOPLE. “And that’s precisely what occurred. However sure, all of it occurred very quick.”

In a January 2022 interview with PEOPLE, Collins fortunately hinted that she was smack dab in the midst of a beautiful relationship. 

“I really had a very unhealthy break up 4 days earlier than I went abroad and on tour in March of 2022 with (Americana nation artist) Sam Outlaw,” Collins says. “So, I began the tour tremendous heartbroken and was simply type of crying in each resort room within the UK.”

But it surely was on the final night time of that tour that Collins met an intriguing man named Rory Mitchinson. “He had an ideal mustache, and he nonetheless does,” the New York native laughs of Mitchinson, who simply occurred to be attending Collins’ present that night time. “I am a sucker for an excellent mustache.”

However there was much more to 32-year-old Mitchinson than simply his facial hair. And in keeping with Collins, she wanted to know extra in regards to the man who appeared so totally different from the remaining.

“That very same night time, all of us went out for drinks and all of the (band) guys ended up going again to their rooms, however Rory (Mitchinson) and I stayed and talked for hours,” Collins remembers. “It was unbelievably romantic. We walked round this historic metropolis with these centuries outdated bridges and cobblestone streets, after which he introduced me again to my resort room and simply gave me a hug after which he was gone. And I used to be like, ‘yeah, he undoubtedly has a girlfriend.’”

However he didn’t have a girlfriend. As a substitute, Collins stated she simply realized that she had discovered herself a gentleman.

“He despatched me this lengthy textual content about how honored he was to get to spend the night with me and what a beautiful time he had, and that was the beginning of all of it,” gushes Collins. “We simply began messaging forwards and backwards for months, and we’d ship one another these hour-long voice memos, and naturally he is acquired probably the most ridiculously lovely accent on the earth.”

A number of months later, Mitchinson made his technique to the States. 

“He came to visit right here in June of 2022, and that was just about when this kind of whirlwind relationship began,” says Collins. “We went forwards and backwards (from England) for a few years.”

However in September of 2023, the couple acquired a blessing that may change every little thing.

“We knew we might need a household, however I used to be somewhat older and every little thing, so we had already determined that we would have liked to begin making an attempt sooner than we most likely would have if it wasn’t for my age,” says Collins, who married Mitchinson on March 20, 2024. “We quick forwarded every little thing, clearly for the most effective motive ever.”

That finest motive is now often known as a 7-month-old little lady by the identify of Esme Winslow Mitchinson and it’s she that served because the muse for Collins when she co- wrote her new single “Barefoot No Fences,” premiering solely on PEOPLE. 

“I acquired to develop up on this massive farm the place clearly there have been no fences, and my sister and I’d simply run out within the yard and play and go right down to the creek and we had been secure,” she says of the touching music she wrote alongside fellow songwriter Kristy Osmunson. “It’s a metaphor for all times. I feel that it’s so lovely to have the liberty to discover and push boundaries and be who you need to be, but additionally love and be wild however know the place house is. That is the way in which I grew up, and I simply actually need that for Esme too.”