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Don Lemon and longtime accomplice Tim Malone are formally married.
The previous CNN anchor, 58, and his fiancé, 38, wed on Saturday, April 6, in New York Metropolis.
“I’m a last-minute individual and most issues I simply don’t fear about,” Lemon instructed Individuals days earlier than the ceremony. “However this one I’m secretly fearful about, however I’m letting Tim take the reins as a result of he’s a very good planner.”
Lemon added, “I’ll be writing questions for just like the U.N. ambassador and he’ll be saying, ‘Oh, when are they going to place the buttons on our jackets?’ It’s an vital query, however I’m similar to, ‘Huh? What?’ So he has 1,000,000 questions, however often he will get it accomplished with out me even answering.”
The ceremony was held at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in midtown Manhattan and officiated by Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the US ambassador to the United Nations.
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“She’s a good friend, and it signifies that a lot to us,” Lemon mentioned of Thomas-Greenfield. In attendance on the wedding ceremony have been about 140 visitors.
The ceremony additionally integrated marriage traditions from each Lemon and Malone’s cultures. Malone’s two sisters led the visitors in a “huge Irish blessing.” On the finish of the ceremony, the newlyweds jumped over a brush, paying respect to the symbolic manner enslaved folks within the American South acknowledged their marriages.
Tim Malone and Don Lemon Amy Sussman/Getty Photos
The couple employed out all the backside flooring of Ralph Lauren’s Polo Bar (the place they’d their first date) in Manhattan for the weekend, a supply confirmed to Us forward of the marriage. The supply additionally shared that among the many superstar visitors anticipated to attend embody Clive Davis, Pleasure Behar, Matt Laur, Intercourse and the Metropolis creator Darren Star, Tamron Corridor in addition to Alec and Hilaria Baldwin, amongst others.
Main as much as their nuptials, the couple has been sharing their pre-wedding festivities by way of Instagram. Lemon and Malone even obtained a pre-wedding name from Vice President Kamala Harris, which was captured in a video and posted by way of Instagram Story.
Lemon additionally shared a photograph by way of Instagram Story of three little tuxedos and harnesses for the couple’s three canines. “We all know 3 visitors able to get this get together began,” Lemon captioned the photograph.
Moreover, April 6 additionally occurs to be Malone’s fortieth birthday; Malone thanked his followers for “all of the love” and nicely needs by way of Instagram on Saturday.
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fortieth birthday apart, Malone instructed Individuals that it was vital for him and Lemon to have a big, conventional wedding ceremony.
“We wished to make a public assertion and we wished to contain our family members,” Malone defined. “We clearly might have simply gone to metropolis corridor. We might have used Covid as an ideal excuse to do one thing actually quiet. However I feel that is additionally a message. For I don’t know what % of our visitors, on each side, however for lots of them it’s going to be their first homosexual wedding ceremony.”
The couple started relationship in 2016, nearly a 12 months after they first met in Bridgehampton, New York, at Almond Restaurant. Lemon introduced their engagement in 2019. “He gave me a gift on his birthday. How might I say no?” he wrote by way of Instagram alongside a photograph of a “Daddy Will You Marry Papa” canine collar.
“It’s bizarre to say ‘fiancé,’ however my fiancé is a extremely nice man. He’s actually candy,” the Don Lemon Present host shared in an unique interview with Us Weekly in April 2019. “He was so susceptible when he was asking me [to marry him]. I didn’t assume it was actual.” (Malone is an actual property agent at Douglas Elliman.)
“His complete physique was shaking, and he mentioned, ‘I like you, and I wish to spend the remainder of my life with you.’ And I mentioned, ‘Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh, are you severe? That is actual!’ And I noticed the field and I mentioned, ‘All proper,’” Lemon instructed Us. “It’s been an incredible expertise.”
Lemon got here out as homosexual in his 2011 memoir Clear. The journalist additionally admitted to Us that, after getting engaged, the connection between him and Malone felt totally different. “It feels actual. Not that it didn’t really feel actual earlier than,” he mentioned in 2019. “I grew up pondering that … my relationships would by no means be public, not to mention get married, and now I can get legally married. My relationship is public and I’ve began fascinated about kids. So I’m an actual late bloomer! A real late bloomer.”
