Defecate in your dress and call off your engagement in a violent Bridezilla fashion because your upcoming nuptials will never be as good as Solange’s wedding to music video director Alan Ferguson was this weekend, and that’s the truth of the matter.
“Solange Piaget Knowles and Alan Gerard Ferguson were married Sunday afternoon near the bride’s home in the Faubourg Marigny district in New Orleans. The ceremony took place at the Marigny Opera House, a nondenominational church supported by the Marigny Opera House Foundation,” reads the New York Times wedding announcement, rendering you literally unable before you’ve had time to even deal.
In an ivory Stephane Rolland jumpsuit and cape, Knowles and Ferguson – wearing white Lanvin – arrived on white painted fixed gear bicycles wreathed with cream roses. At some point, before or after, Solange changed into a custom gown designed by her friend and creative director for Kenzo, Opening Ceremony co-founder Humberto Leon, to stage stoic tableaux with her mother, sister and Janelle Monae, who totally missed the austerity memo and is just so stoked to be there.
Knowles walked down the aisle to the couples’ favourite song, a symphonic instrumental of Donny Hathaway’s, ‘I Love the Lord, He Heard My Cry.’ Kelela, Questlove, and Kindness performed at the reception; Knowles and her ten-year-old son Julez also had a dance off.
“Everyone I worked with on the wedding are friends who I love. Everything was a labor of love,” Solange would later tell Vogue via email.
Best of all, she made Beyoncé sit on the ground. It was a perfect day.
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