This weekend, wedding bells rang across New York City for Don Lemon and Tim Malone. On April 6, Lemon married his fiancé of five years at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in Manhattan in a unique yet traditional ceremony.
“We wanted to make a public statement,” Malone told People magazine, explaining the couple’s emphasis on having a traditional ceremony that would “involve our loved ones.”
“We obviously could have easily gone to city hall,” Malone said. “We could have used Covid as a perfect excuse to do something really quiet. But I think this is also a message. For I don’t know what percent of our guests, on both sides, but for a lot of them, it’s going to be their first gay wedding.”
Honoring both of their individual upbringings, the ceremony included a religious service, a big Irish blessing led by Malone’s sisters, a unity candle lighting and jumping the broom. In addition to cultural traditions, Lemon and Malone also followed the popular “something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue.” Each wearing custom suits by Suit Supply, Malone showcased his something blue with his blue, velvet double-breasted jacket, while Lemon opted to hide his blue under his suit.
Surrounded by approximately 140 friends and family, the couple’s guest list featured stars like Sunny Hostin, Tamron Hall and Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, who officiated the ceremony. Further mixing modern and traditional elements, Lemon and Malone exchanged personal vows before saying the traditional wedding vows.
“I’m a last-minute person, and most things I just don’t worry about,” Lemon said. “I have not been nervous about anything except writing the vows.”
Walking out to Stevie Wonder’s “Signed, Sealed and Delivered,” the couple exited the church and stepped into a New Orleans-inspired second line, which marched from the church to the wedding…
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