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US homeless couple marry in dream wedding
AFP
by Karin Zeitvogel Karin Zeitvogel - Thu May 7, 3:34 am ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The groom wore a black tuxedo, a damask-rose pink waistcoat and tie, and an ear-to-ear smile.
He picked out his wedding outfit at a mall in Virginia -- his first time ever in one of the sprawling shopping centers that are monuments to consumerism in the suburban landscape across the United States.
During his 14 years living homeless on the streets of Washington, Dante White, 28, never realized that so much opulence existed. Nor had he had much luck in love in his life, having been thrown out of his mother's home when he was just 14.
Last week, White married Nhiahni Chestnut, 39, a woman whose battles with drugs and alcohol had left her on the streets of the US capital as well. Both are unemployed.
"I was basically living from day to day, trying to survive, and I wound up meeting him," Chestnut told AFP at the couple's wedding, held in the tiny chapel of Grace Episcopal Church in Washington's Georgetown neighborhood.
"Something clicked, the chemistry was there," said the bride, dressed in a flowing white ensemble with a pink flower.
"We've been together ever since. That was nine years ago. He was outside. It kind of clicked because we were in kind of the same situation. We started hanging out with each other, talking," she said.
The two also frequented a Bible study and meal program run by Grace Episcopal Church on Saturdays. It was there, a few months ago, that White, 28, revealed to a parishioner how much he wished he could afford to marry the woman who had brought light into his life on the streets.
"Everyone at the church feels strongly that you don't need to have money to get married," said Margaret Davis.
"In good Grace church congregation fashion, everyone got behind the idea: one person managed flowers, I helped with the wedding rings, one woman made the cake, someone helped with the tux and someone else with the bride's gown," she said.
Another churchgoer paid for a two-night honeymoon stay at the Key Bridge Marriott Hotel across the Potomac River in Virginia.
For Pastor John Graham, marrying White and Chestnut was a first, but in many other ways, it was just like marrying any other couple.
"It's the same occasion for joy, the bride and groom are extremely nervous, and so am I," he told AFP.
"The difference is, they're homeless."
After the service, the bride and groom posed for photos and, in the church annex where they gather on Saturdays for Bible study and a meal, they fed each other slices of chocolate layer cake.
Cameras clicked and whirred, and as two of Washington's best jazz musicians played a smoochy version of "Take the A-train," the couple had their first dance.
"This is beyond my wildest dreams. This is exactly how I wanted my wedding to be," said the bride.
The couple's break from the streets, however, will be brief.
Soon, their dream wedding and honeymoon will be just a memory as they face the very real battle to survive on the mean streets of Washington, where White says: "You have to sleep with one eye open."
Now that he's married his true love, White longs for nothing more than a roof over their heads, a place they can call home, where they can "cook pork chops and rice for ourselves," he told AFP.
And having pulled off the miracle nuptials, Grace Church parishioners are working on the next steps of building a future for the couple: looking for affordable housing, money to pay a security deposit and a few bits and pieces to allow them to set up house together.
"There is a certain element of urgency to this," said Davis.
"Love will get them through so much, but at the end of the day they do need housing," she said
AFP
by Karin Zeitvogel Karin Zeitvogel - Thu May 7, 3:34 am ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The groom wore a black tuxedo, a damask-rose pink waistcoat and tie, and an ear-to-ear smile.
He picked out his wedding outfit at a mall in Virginia -- his first time ever in one of the sprawling shopping centers that are monuments to consumerism in the suburban landscape across the United States.
During his 14 years living homeless on the streets of Washington, Dante White, 28, never realized that so much opulence existed. Nor had he had much luck in love in his life, having been thrown out of his mother's home when he was just 14.
Last week, White married Nhiahni Chestnut, 39, a woman whose battles with drugs and alcohol had left her on the streets of the US capital as well. Both are unemployed.
"I was basically living from day to day, trying to survive, and I wound up meeting him," Chestnut told AFP at the couple's wedding, held in the tiny chapel of Grace Episcopal Church in Washington's Georgetown neighborhood.
"Something clicked, the chemistry was there," said the bride, dressed in a flowing white ensemble with a pink flower.
"We've been together ever since. That was nine years ago. He was outside. It kind of clicked because we were in kind of the same situation. We started hanging out with each other, talking," she said.
The two also frequented a Bible study and meal program run by Grace Episcopal Church on Saturdays. It was there, a few months ago, that White, 28, revealed to a parishioner how much he wished he could afford to marry the woman who had brought light into his life on the streets.
"Everyone at the church feels strongly that you don't need to have money to get married," said Margaret Davis.
"In good Grace church congregation fashion, everyone got behind the idea: one person managed flowers, I helped with the wedding rings, one woman made the cake, someone helped with the tux and someone else with the bride's gown," she said.
Another churchgoer paid for a two-night honeymoon stay at the Key Bridge Marriott Hotel across the Potomac River in Virginia.
For Pastor John Graham, marrying White and Chestnut was a first, but in many other ways, it was just like marrying any other couple.
"It's the same occasion for joy, the bride and groom are extremely nervous, and so am I," he told AFP.
"The difference is, they're homeless."
After the service, the bride and groom posed for photos and, in the church annex where they gather on Saturdays for Bible study and a meal, they fed each other slices of chocolate layer cake.
Cameras clicked and whirred, and as two of Washington's best jazz musicians played a smoochy version of "Take the A-train," the couple had their first dance.
"This is beyond my wildest dreams. This is exactly how I wanted my wedding to be," said the bride.
The couple's break from the streets, however, will be brief.
Soon, their dream wedding and honeymoon will be just a memory as they face the very real battle to survive on the mean streets of Washington, where White says: "You have to sleep with one eye open."
Now that he's married his true love, White longs for nothing more than a roof over their heads, a place they can call home, where they can "cook pork chops and rice for ourselves," he told AFP.
And having pulled off the miracle nuptials, Grace Church parishioners are working on the next steps of building a future for the couple: looking for affordable housing, money to pay a security deposit and a few bits and pieces to allow them to set up house together.
"There is a certain element of urgency to this," said Davis.
"Love will get them through so much, but at the end of the day they do need housing," she said
Comments
Why try to get a job when others will take care of all your needs because it makes them feel good?
And you are shocked?[xx(]
Nope.....not shocked at all. Its beginning to be what I expect from folks, both those "helping" and those being "helped".
And you are shocked?[xx(]
Why try to get a job when others will take care of all your needs because it makes them feel good?
Is that what you call charity or schmuck socalism?
quote:Originally posted by Marc1301
And you are shocked?[xx(]
Why try to get a job when others will take care of all your needs because it makes them feel good?
Is that what you call charity or schmuck socalism?
Right now it appears to be charity, but I expect it to turn into the other soon.
Why does a person live on the streets for 14 years, with all of the programs the real "schmucks" get to pay for with tax dollars?
Also the woman is an addict. There is a lot of help for that also,........IF you don't have any money.
I am sorry, but I believe a lot of these types CHOOSE to live that way by their own volition. I certainly have sympathy for folks in bad straits, and have helped a number that I felt might change their circumstances with a bit of help. The rest, I basically have zero sympathy for,,.....call me evil if you so choose.
They blew it! Right there on the Potomac, why, the love-birds could have honeymooned on the bank of the river, right beneath the Potomac River bridge.
Seriously, they ought to be given a bus ticket to come down here to Asheville NC.
These looney liberals that run this town are building housing for every homeless person in town.
That is right, a two bedroom apartment for two homeless people.
We are into year 3 of the ten year program.
Of course, city officials won't infringe on "privacy rights of the homeless," by enforcing a no dope, no booze policy in the new, free, apartments.
My girlfriend owns 4 nice rental houses in Asheville, this is what her property taxes go for.
a two-night honeymoon stay at the Key Bridge Marriott Hotel across the Potomac River
They blew it! Right there on the Potomac, why, the love-birds could have honeymooned on the bank of the river, right beneath the Potomac River bridge.
Seriously, they ought to be given a bus ticket to come down here to Asheville NC.
These looney liberals that run this town are building housing for every homeless person in town.
That is right, a two bedroom apartment for two homeless people.
We are into year 3 of the ten year program.
Of course, city officials won't infringe on "privacy rights of the homeless," by enforcing a no dope, no booze policy in the new, free, apartments.My girlfriend owns 4 nice rental houses in Asheville, this is what her property taxes go for.
This is why I have zero tolerance for this crap.
They are using other peoples money to HELP homeless folks, but don't do anything about what made them homeless in the first place.
Homeless people will move to Asheville to get their free apartment.
These dingbat libs have created a program that will go on infinitely.
They are using other peoples money to HELP homeless folks, but don't do anything about what made them homeless in the first place.
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.......Put him on the government dole, and you feed him (and all of his offspring) for life.
quote:Originally posted by Marc1301
They are using other peoples money to HELP homeless folks, but don't do anything about what made them homeless in the first place.
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.......Put him on the government dole, and you feed him (and all of his offspring) for life.
That would be correct Rack.
Whatever happened to the part that said "TEACH a man to fish",.....that is long gone of course.
I have been seeing the "Save The Children" commercials since I was a teenager. You know, the ones with the dying African children with flies buzzing around their face.
I believe at one point we sent a lot of folks over there to teach them how to grow crops in an arid environment?
They still don't grow food, and simply wait for the next aid plane coming in with grain.
The US has succeeded in expanding welfare across the globe.
Sorry for being a downer, but we can't afford this anymore, and I for one was NEVER in favor of it, after seeing what happens.
Very sad situation for anyone that works and pays taxes for sure.
Allen,.....you have my sympathy.
quote:Originally posted by Marc1301
They are using other peoples money to HELP homeless folks, but don't do anything about what made them homeless in the first place.
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.......Put him on the government dole, and you feed him (and all of his offspring) for life.
I always liked the the saying: If you build a man a fire he will be warm for the night, if you light a man on fire he will be warm the rest of his life.