Marry Your Baby Daddy Day Winning Couples

The Winning Couples for MYBDD in Charlotte, NC

Vincell Staton & Gale McDowell
Vonrique Brown & Kaya Carter

Our winning couples have never been married before.


... Gala Affairs By AtUrBest wants to thank all applicants that applied.



Now the countdown begins we have 64 days to get the couples wedding attire, invitations, favors, honeymoon night, etc and then aisle so they can start their family as husbands and wives in holy matriomony with their beautiful children as a whole family on Thursday, September 24, 2009. "Oh one catch the couples will not know the location of the wedding, reception or the honeymoon until the day"...

We like to thank Herbert White of The Charlotte Post for bringing the story to our Charlotte area.

A little about our couples -

Our first couple Vincell & Gale they have been together for 22 years with five children together. They have lived in Charlotte, NC all their lives.

Gale Age 40 is a Receptionist
Vincell Age 42 is a Cook






Their children ages are 18, 12, 11, 8, 6 (three daughters and two sons).

Our second couple Vonrique & Kaya they have been together for 14 years with four children together. They have lived in Charlotte, NC all their lives.





Kaya Age 27 is a Lead Care Manager
Vonrique Age 31 is a Cook

Their children ages are 12, 9, 8, 7 (three daughters and one son).


First Gala Affairs would like to thank the vendors that have offered the services of their companies to participate in this wonderful event without a blink of any eye... We have Heaven Sent Catering, April's Floral, Uptown Limousine Service, Always with Love, Photography By Terendius, Rev. Beatrice Hollins of Mt.Pleasant Holliness Church, Rev. Sydney Charnley of Eternity Wedding Ceremonies, EQ Music-DJ -AJ, Maryann of We Cut Cakes, Joyce St. Cyre, of Diversity Den Cafe, Homewood Suites and the Marriott Resident Inn Unvesity Research Park Charlotte, NC.

We like to thank all the family and friends that have made donations to help bring this vision to reality without you and the vendors this would not been able to take place. If there is some people that we haven forgotten, please forgive us but you will be recognized in The Wedding Journal.


"The Art Of Marriage"

The little things are the big things.
It is never being too old to hold hands.
It is remembering to say "I love you" at least once a day.

It is never going to sleep angry.
It is at no time taking the other for granted;
the courtship should not end with the honeymoon,
it should continue through all the years.

It is having a mutual sense of values and common objectives.
It is standing together facing the world.
It is forming a circle of love that gathers in the whole family.
It is doing things for each other, not in the attitude
of duty or sacrifice,
but in the spirit of joy.

It is speaking words of appreciation and demonstrating
gratitude in thoughtful ways.
It is not expecting the husband to wear a halo or the wife to have wings of an
angel.
It is not looking for perfection in each other.

It is cultivating flexibility, patience, understanding and a
sense of humor.
It is having the capacity to forgive and forget.
It is giving each other an atmosphere in
which each can grow.

It is finding room for the things of the spirit.
It is a common search for the good and
the beautiful.
It is establishing a relationship in which the independence is equal, dependence is mutual and
the obligation is reciprocal.
It is not only marrying the right partner,
it is being the right partner.

"Author Unknown"


A Marriage
By Michael Blumenthal


You are holding up a ceiling
with both arms. It is very heavy,
but you must hold it up, or else
it will fall down on you. Your arms
are tired, terribly tired,
and, as the day goes on, it feels
as if either your arms or the ceiling
will soon collapse.

But then,
unexpectedly,
something wonderful happens:
Someone,
a man or a woman,
walks into the room
and holds their arms up
to the ceiling beside you.

So you finally get
to take down your arms.
You feel the relief of respite,
the blood flowing back
to your fingers and arms.
And when your partner's arms tire,
you hold up your own
to relieve him again.

And it can go on like this
for many years
without the house falling.