Harlem Society: Courtney Hall and LaShann DeArcy Wed

On November 27, 2006 by D. Bell

By ALANA NEWTON

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November 26, 2006 — OCT. 7 – If you’ve ever tasted espresso beans, Sour Patch Kids, cayenne peppers and sugar cubes in the same night, then you were probably at the wedding of Courtney Hall and LaShann DeArcy. The Harlem duo, who met in 2002 through mutual friends, celebrated their favorite African proverb, “It takes a village,” by asking their 125 guests to participate in a tasting of the four elements in a relationship: bitter, sour, hot and sweet. “We wanted our guests to know that they are a huge part of our marriage,” explains DeArcy, an associate at Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher in Manhattan. Hall, a former pro football player who is now the COO of Council for Unity in Manhattan, officially proposed to DeArcy in the middle of Grand Central Station with a radiant 4.07-carat ring, a year after he first asked her to marry him sans diamond. Still, laughs DeArcy, “It was well worth the wait.”

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Ceremony location: Riverside Church in Harlem

Wedding dress: a two-piece Badgley Mischka design

First dance: Jeffrey Osborne’s “We’re Going All the Way”

Source: New York Post

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Churches, Weddings

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