IF WYNONNA JUDD'S COUNTRY MUSIC fans felt uncomfortable about her much-publicized out-of-wedlock motherhood, it was no easier for Wynonna and her longtime husband-in-wraiting Arch Kelley III. "The shame never goes away," Wynonna told PEOPLE last year following the birth of the couple's son, Elijah, now 13 months. "But we're in love...and we'll [get married] when we're ready."

Last week they were ready. On Jan. 21, Wynonna, 31, three months pregnant with her second child, married Kelley, 43, at a traditional Sunday ceremony in Nashville's Christ Church. As a helicopter hovered overhead and paparazzi swarmed outside, a teary Wynonna, wearing a cream-and-white lace gown and carrying a nearly floor-length bouquet of flowers, was escorted down the aisle by Larry Strickland, mother Naomi's husband. She was attended by her sister, movie actress Ashley, 27. "It was very emotional," says Strickland, who, along with the 200 wedding guests, also witnessed a "baby dedication," at which Wynonna and Kelley vowed to love and care for Elijah, who, like his father, wore a white suit and boutonniere.

After riding in a vintage black Cadillac to Naomi's new Trilogy restaurant for the reception, the couple joined more than 600 guests (including singers Michael McDonald, Kim Carnes and Gary Chapman), who sipped champagne, devoured three wedding cakes and danced to music by the Nashville Bluegrass Band. Says sister Ashley, who joined Wynonna and Naomi in a midnight rendition of "Amazing Grace": "It was A-mazing."

Rumors that a wedding was in the offing were confirmed when Wynonna told the Nashville Banner of plans to reactivate her solo career—a new album, Revelations, and a CBS special are due in February—following an 18-month break. Adding that she and Kelley, a Nashville boat salesman she met on a plane in 1993, would wed before her concert tour begins in March, Judd revealed that Kelley had proposed to her on Jan. 3, in a tepee on her 500-acre Franklin, Tenn., farm. "It was on bended knee," she said in the interview. "There was a candle and there were tears." What accounted for the timing? "We were waiting to hear that inner voice," she said, "and the voice said, 'Okay, it's time.' "