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Couples Wed On 'Marry Your Baby Daddy Day'
POSTED: 6:59 am EDT September 30, 2005
NEW YORK -- Ten couples who have children together and have been living together for years got married Thursday.
The group wedding was billed as "Marry Your Baby Daddy Day."
The ceremony was organized by Maryann Reid, author of "Marry Your Baby Daddy." She said she was dismayed by what she says are too many single-parent families within the black community.
Reid hopes the ceremony would help break the cycle of broken homes.
Soul music opened the wedding, with the grooms dancing down the aisle to roars of laughter from friends and family. Then the couples' children came in, the boys wearing miniature versions of their fathers' tuxedoes, and the girls wearing princess dresses.
As the brides made their entrance, camera bulbs lit up the room and mothers, brides, and even some grooms waiting at the altar began to cry.
The Rev. Herbert Daughtry married the couples, taking each bride and groom through the vows.
The ceremony ended with the couples taking turns jumping over a broom, a tradition at many black marriages that symbolizes the beginning of a new life together.
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simple schoolboy wrote:
punkdavid wrote:
Soul music opened the wedding, with the grooms dancing down the aisle to roars of laughter from friends and family.
Sounds like a real classy affair, one these gentlemen took very seriously.
*cough cough* racist *cough cough*
What do you jews have against blacky, anyhow?
I apologize. I didn't know that it was traditional at black weddings for the grooms to "dance down the aisles to roars of laughter from friends and family". None of my black friends have married during the time I've known them, so I've never been to a "traditional" black wedding.
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Athletic Supporter wrote:
punkdavid wrote:
Soul music opened the wedding, with the grooms dancing down the aisle to roars of laughter from friends and family.
Sounds like a real classy affair, one these gentlemen took very seriously.
I suppose a stuffy wedding where everyone had a script would be more suitable for you? Weddings are supposed to be fun man. Geez.
To each his own, but I think that receptions are supposed to be fun, and that the wedding ceremony should be a serious affair where one contemplates the lifelong commitment they are making to their spouse. It just seems to me that the men in this story were clowns before the wedding, and they'll probably be clowns afterwards.
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punkdavid wrote:
To each his own, but I think that receptions are supposed to be fun, and that the wedding ceremony should be a serious affair where one contemplates the lifelong commitment they are making to their spouse. It just seems to me that the men in this story were clowns before the wedding, and they'll probably be clowns afterwards.
Whatever, Whitey!
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punkdavid wrote:
Athletic Supporter wrote:
punkdavid wrote:
Soul music opened the wedding, with the grooms dancing down the aisle to roars of laughter from friends and family.
Sounds like a real classy affair, one these gentlemen took very seriously.
I suppose a stuffy wedding where everyone had a script would be more suitable for you? Weddings are supposed to be fun man. Geez.
To each his own, but I think that receptions are supposed to be fun, and that the wedding ceremony should be a serious affair where one contemplates the lifelong commitment they are making to their spouse. It just seems to me that the men in this story were clowns before the wedding, and they'll probably be clowns afterwards.
I was too fucking nervous to contemplate anything.
To each his own Davarino..
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B wrote:
Is that kiddo?
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Great pic.
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prayforpeace wrote:
B wrote:
Where did you find this little guy?
He's in every other thread in GD. At least he was for a while.
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