Their Wedding Cost $99 and Their Marriage Has Lasted Over 20 Years: Christina & Eddie

On Wednesdays, Black Love options couple’s first-person tales of why they stated “I do.” Whereas we all know that marriage is not only in regards to the marriage ceremony day however the life you share collectively, we wish to know why you determined to stroll down the aisle and take that step towards ceaselessly. Need your story to be heard subsequent? E-mail our editor at yasmine@blacklove.com.

Why I Mentioned I Do: Christina & Edward (Eddie) Sledge

We knew our union was predestined from the beginning. We have been even born in the identical hospital and crossed paths many instances earlier than we lastly met. Destiny lastly introduced us collectively in highschool. Eddie needed to transfer after a devastating home hearth displaced his household. That transfer introduced him to the highschool that I used to be enrolled in. The humorous factor was I used to be not zoned to that college however, my father needed me to go to highschool there. 

We met in highschool in Brooklyn, NY, in September 1992. We broke up proper earlier than commencement in June 1996, however nonetheless stored in contact by means of letters and my brother for nearly 4 years when Eddie was a soldier within the U.S. Military whereas I used to be a scholar at Temple College.

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We each had failed relationships individually. We lastly met once more on Christmas Eve 1999 after virtually 4 years of being aside. Eddie proposed impromptu with out a ring on that Christmas Eve night time as a result of he didn’t wish to be aside from me anymore. I stated sure, as a result of I knew he was the person that I used to be meant to marry. We needed an enormous Christmas marriage ceremony in 2000 however couldn’t afford it. So we eloped two months afterward February 18, 2000 in Philly. The marriage ceremony price $99. We have been so broke that I wore my cream-colored promenade gown, and Eddie wore his Military Class A uniform. After the ceremony, we solely had two quarters. We’ve got been married ever since for 23 years.

We eloped as a result of we didn’t need something to maintain us aside. We put our religion in God and one another as a result of we knew it was a predestined union. I stated I do as a result of I knew he was the one man I might love as a result of, after we have been aside, I in contrast each man to him. 

Eddie stated “I do” as a result of he couldn’t see his future with out me in it. As he says, “I wanted this lady in my life.”

After 15 years, on July 18, 2015 we lastly had a correct marriage ceremony/vow renewal, together with our household and pals. It was lovely to share that second with our family members and our daughters. Then for our twentieth marriage ceremony anniversary, we had one other vow renewal. The Christmas marriage ceremony we all the time needed 20 years early at Disney World on December 23, 2019. Throughout our 23-year marriage, we each obtained Bachelors’s and Masters’s levels and have been blessed with two phenomenal daughters.  

We will’t think about our lives with out one another. We’ve got been blessed to search out one another and construct a household and life collectively. Our story is a testomony to comply with your coronary heart and let your religion in one another information you.