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Don Lemon and longtime spouse Tim Malone are formally married.
The former CNN anchor, 58, and his fiancé, 38, wed on Saturday, April 6, in New York City.
“I’m a last-minute person and most things I just don’t worry about,” Lemon advised People days earlier than the rite. “But this one I’m secretly worried about, but I’m letting Tim take the reins because he’s a good planner.”
Lemon added, “I’ll be writing questions for like the U.N. ambassador and he’ll be saying, ‘Oh, when are they going to put the buttons on our jackets?’ It’s an important question, but I’m just like, ‘Huh? What?’ So he has a million questions, but usually he gets it done without me even answering.”
The rite was once held at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in midtown Manhattan and officiated via Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the United States ambassador to the United Nations.
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“She’s a friend, and it means that much to us,” Lemon mentioned of Thomas-Greenfield. In attendance on the marriage ceremony have been about 140 visitors.
The rite additionally integrated marriage traditions from each Lemon and Malone’s cultures. Malone’s two sisters led the visitors in a “big Irish blessing.” At the top of the rite, the newlyweds jumped over a brush, paying admire to the symbolic means enslaved other folks in the American South identified their marriages.
Tim Malone and Don Lemon Amy Sussman/Getty Images
The couple employed out all the backside flooring of Ralph Lauren’s Polo Bar (the place that they had their first date) in Manhattan for the weekend, a supply showed to Us forward of the marriage. The supply additionally shared that some of the superstar visitors anticipated to wait come with Clive Davis, Joy Behar, Matt Laur, Sex and the City author Darren Star, Tamron Hall in addition to Alec and Hilaria Baldwin, amongst others.
Leading as much as their nuptials, the couple has been sharing their pre-wedding festivities by means of Instagram. Lemon and Malone even gained a pre-wedding name from Vice President Kamala Harris, which was once captured in a video and posted by means of Instagram Story.
Lemon additionally shared a photograph by means of Instagram Story of 3 little tuxedos and harnesses for the couple’s 3 canine. “We know 3 guests ready to get this party started,” Lemon captioned the photograph.
Additionally, April 6 additionally occurs to be Malone’s fortieth birthday; Malone thanked his fans for “all the love” and smartly needs by means of Instagram on Saturday.
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fortieth birthday apart, Malone advised People that it was once vital for him and Lemon to have a big, conventional marriage ceremony.
“We wanted to make a public statement and we wanted to involve our loved ones,” Malone defined. “We obviously could have easily gone to city hall. 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.”
The couple started courting in 2016, nearly a yr when they first met in Bridgehampton, New York, at Almond Restaurant. Lemon introduced their engagement in 2019. “He gave me a present on his birthday. How could I say no?” he wrote by means of Instagram along a photograph of a “Daddy Will You Marry Papa” canine collar.
“It’s weird to say ‘fiancé,’ but my fiancé is a really great guy. He’s really sweet,” the Don Lemon Show host shared in an unique interview with Us Weekly in April 2019. “He was so vulnerable when he was asking me [to marry him]. I didn’t think it was real.” (Malone is an actual property agent at Douglas Elliman.)
“His entire body was shaking, and he said, ‘I love you, and I want to spend the rest of my life with you.’ And I said, ‘Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh, are you serious? This is real!’ And I saw the box and I said, ‘All right,’” Lemon advised Us. “It’s been an amazing experience.”
Lemon got here out as homosexual in his 2011 memoir Transparent. The journalist additionally admitted to Us that, once you have engaged, the connection between him and Malone felt other. “It feels real. Not that it didn’t feel real before,” he mentioned in 2019. “I grew up thinking that … my relationships would never be public, let alone get married, and now I can get legally married. My relationship is public and I have started thinking about children. So I’m a real late bloomer! A true late bloomer.”