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.
Couples Wed On 'Marry Your Baby Daddy Day'
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LMFAO...
This is a a great, albeit different kind of feel good marriage story...Hey man, any little bit counts...
This is a a great, albeit different kind of feel good marriage story...Hey man, any little bit counts...
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the jumping over the broom at weddings is strong among my people, man...
the broom is made of heather and ash. the symbolism is that of the male ash tree (phallus) and the heather is bound together around its shaft (the ketis). It is a sign of fidelity and health, better or worse . Ash is where aspirin comes from and is supposed to help make the marriage headache free, and heather is common in the fields at Beltain when the courting traditionally begins, so its a memory of where te couple met.
The bride is called a o'igh, o/wig, which is actually the word for Virgin, and the groom is called a o'igear... which sounds like something between "wigger" and "ogre."
but even we stole it from the besom weddings of the Welsh - where it was a legal marriage.
A birch besom was placed aslant in the open doorway of the house, with its head on the doorstep and the top of its handle on the door-post. First a young man jumped over it, then his bride, in the presence of witnesses. If either touched or knocked it in any way, the marriage was not recognised. In this kind of marriage, a woman kept her own home and did not become the property of her husband. It was a partnership, called †™ ¢‚¬„¢¢‚¬Å¡‚¢†™‚¢‚¢¢¢‚¬Å¡‚¬¦‚¡¢‚¬Å¡‚¬†™¢¢¬‚¦‚¢¢¢‚¬Å¡‚¬¦¢‚¬Å“cyd-fydio,†™ ¢‚¬„¢¢‚¬Å¡‚¢†™‚¢‚¢¢¢‚¬Å¡‚¬¦‚¡¢‚¬Å¡‚¬? rather than an ownership. A child of the marriage was considered to be legitimate. If the couple decided to divorce, they simply jumped back over the broomstick again, but this could only be done in the first year of marriage. If a child had been born in that year, it was the father†™ ¢‚¬„¢¢‚¬Å¡‚¢†™‚¢‚¢¢¢‚¬Å¡‚¬¦‚¡¢‚¬Å¡‚¬†™‚¢‚¢¢¢‚¬Å¡‚¬¦‚¾¢‚¬Å¡‚¢s responsibility, as maternal responsibility in the old Welsh ways is not we make it out to be.
The broom is Scot is called a sguab, is usually crafted by a ban-glic or a "woman who knows the mysterious ways."
There is an old saying that you can tell how happy a couple is by how new their broom looks...
the broom is made of heather and ash. the symbolism is that of the male ash tree (phallus) and the heather is bound together around its shaft (the ketis). It is a sign of fidelity and health, better or worse . Ash is where aspirin comes from and is supposed to help make the marriage headache free, and heather is common in the fields at Beltain when the courting traditionally begins, so its a memory of where te couple met.
The bride is called a o'igh, o/wig, which is actually the word for Virgin, and the groom is called a o'igear... which sounds like something between "wigger" and "ogre."
but even we stole it from the besom weddings of the Welsh - where it was a legal marriage.
A birch besom was placed aslant in the open doorway of the house, with its head on the doorstep and the top of its handle on the door-post. First a young man jumped over it, then his bride, in the presence of witnesses. If either touched or knocked it in any way, the marriage was not recognised. In this kind of marriage, a woman kept her own home and did not become the property of her husband. It was a partnership, called †™ ¢‚¬„¢¢‚¬Å¡‚¢†™‚¢‚¢¢¢‚¬Å¡‚¬¦‚¡¢‚¬Å¡‚¬†™¢¢¬‚¦‚¢¢¢‚¬Å¡‚¬¦¢‚¬Å“cyd-fydio,†™ ¢‚¬„¢¢‚¬Å¡‚¢†™‚¢‚¢¢¢‚¬Å¡‚¬¦‚¡¢‚¬Å¡‚¬? rather than an ownership. A child of the marriage was considered to be legitimate. If the couple decided to divorce, they simply jumped back over the broomstick again, but this could only be done in the first year of marriage. If a child had been born in that year, it was the father†™ ¢‚¬„¢¢‚¬Å¡‚¢†™‚¢‚¢¢¢‚¬Å¡‚¬¦‚¡¢‚¬Å¡‚¬†™‚¢‚¢¢¢‚¬Å¡‚¬¦‚¾¢‚¬Å¡‚¢s responsibility, as maternal responsibility in the old Welsh ways is not we make it out to be.
The broom is Scot is called a sguab, is usually crafted by a ban-glic or a "woman who knows the mysterious ways."
There is an old saying that you can tell how happy a couple is by how new their broom looks...
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