Black love matters!
That is the message that Makeita Wilson and her fiancé Shancton Thompson told the world when they shared their wedding vows on Saturday at the mural Black Lives Matter painted on Fulton Street in Brooklyn.
“I was lying in bed and had the craziest thought to get married on the mural,” Wilson told Patch. “Through all the tragedies that are happening in the world, [I thought], let’s put some happiness and love back into the universe. ”
The couple, together for more than a decade, got engaged in April 2019. The Brooklynites had plans to get married in June, but delayed the nuptials due to COVID-19.
Wilson wore a fitted white dress and wore a large bouquet of pink, white and blue blooms. She and Thompson, who are working on a short-sleeved pink button-down shirt under a vest, tied the knot at a socially distant ceremony attended by 30 friends and family.
The Fulton Street mural, outside the Billie Holiday Theater, was the first with the oversized yellow letters on a New York City freeway. Since June, seven other murals have materialized, including one for the Trump Tower in Manhattan.
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