Roy Orbison Jr. Is Married — and John Carter Cash Officiated! See the Photos

The music legend’s son (best friends with Carter Cash since childhood) married on the steps of his godfather Johnny Cash’s Tennessee cabin

The Orbisons are no strangers to dark days: the singing legend’s first wife, Claudette, was killed in a motorcycle accident in 1966, and two years later, two of their sons died in a fire. Orbison himself was only 52 when he died in 1988.

So when Roy Orbison Jr. found himself sitting in a park visiting Stockholm, Sweden, in 2013, two years after losing his mother Barbara to pancreatic cancer, “I was very alone in life,” he tells PEOPLE. And then he met Asa Hallgren “and I went from the darkness to the light,” he says. “Life has been bright and sunny ever since.”