Weddings are loved by all, and as always black love and Afro/ African American weddings are our pride here at MBBA, and we want to share with you the exquisite one of a kind wedding of a strategic planner, Channing Martin and Bobby Jones an IT Director.
This strategically innovative couples had their wedding celebration in a district winery in Washington DC and we are glad to share pictures with you.
Channing aged 29 and her husband Bobby aged 32 also inculcated an african marriage ritual from the Yoruba people; of sampling bitter, sour, hot and sweet flavors to represent the cycles of a marriage.
They exchanged their vows in front of a circular huckleberry, which according to Channing; “…represents notions of infinity, eternity, unity, wholeness and safety,”
The bride held peonies, roses, hypericum berries and silver dollar eucalyptus for the ceremony, while salal, carnations and wisteria hung above reception tables topped with candles and single flower stems.
Channing also surprised Bobby with a new car on their wedding day. “I wanted to do something special because he’s always gifting others,” she says.