India, Oct. 8 -- Darius Rucker is officially off the market. On Wednesday, October 8, the singer-songwriter shared that he had proposed to his girlfriend, Emily Deahl. He posted two photos on Instagram: one of him down on one knee, the other of the couple smiling at the camera, Deahl's sparkling engagement ring front and center.

"Thank you for showing me a level of happiness I have never known," Rucker wrote. "The day I met you I knew I didn't want to go another one without you. Now I don't have to," he added.

Take a look at his post here:

Deahl shared the pictures on her Instagram Stories too. She also admitted she had kept this part of her life private. "I never intended on keeping this part of my life from you guys for so long, but ...