One never knows when cupid will strike. Sometimes we fall in love when and where we least expect it/to. That seems to be the case for these two Ferguson protesters -- Alexis Templeton and Brittany Ferrell. They met at a Ferguson protest back in August and then fell in love.
They got their marriage license in St. Louis, MO (the only jurisdiction in Missouri issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples) as onlookers chanted/shouted "Black love matters." They could have have gotten married immediately, but decided that they wanted to plan a more festive celebration/wedding for a later date.
From She Wired:
Alexis Templeton, 20, and Brittany Ferrell, 25, met in August at demonstrations calling for police accountability after Brown was shot to death by a Ferguson officer. Both are Ferguson residents and students at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, but they didn’t know each other previously. In an interview with The St. Louis American, Ferrell recalled when she first saw Templeton.
“She had on an UMSL shirt,” Ferrell said. “I was like, ‘Oh, hey.’ I embraced her just because she was there. You hug people and you welcome them, especially in a time like that.”
Their attraction to each other grew quickly. Templeton’s sister, Bre, said she learned about the relationship in mid-September. “Alex came up and sat with my son and she fed him,” she told The Huffington Post. “She was like, ‘Dude, I got a crush.’ I was like, ‘OK, that’s cool.’ And she was like, ‘No, I got a crush on a girl.’ I asked her how she felt about it and she said good. I asked her if she wanted to talk about it and she said no.”
You can also find more photos of the happy couple at this article about them in the
Huffington Post.
Congratulations and best wishes to the happy couple!