They’re married!
Don Lemon and Tim Malone made it Instagram official, sharing a “Simply married!” picture on Saturday night time, 5 years to the day after their engagement. In it, the 2 tuxedo-clad grooms are exiting a church, sporting huge smiles and holding their three canines, who put on tux-like, bow-tied collars.
Video shared in Lemon’s and Malone’s Instagram Tales exhibits company forming a second line behind the couple and waving blue handkerchiefs as they head to a marriage reception at Ralph Lauren’s Polo Bar.
Former CNN information anchor Lemon, 58, and his real-estate dealer husband wed in New York Metropolis in a ceremony attended by 140 company, in accordance with Folks. The marriage at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in Manhattan was officiated by Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
The couple had a “lovely marriage ceremony,” Lemon’s consultant, Allison Gollust, instructed USA TODAY on Sunday. “They’re thrilled.”
“I by no means thought that I might get married,” “The Don Lemon Present” host instructed Folks, which printed unique photographs from the occasion. “For therefore a few years of my rising up and hiding issues, I by no means thought it may occur legally.”
The grooms wore marching velvet tuxedos – inexperienced for Lemon and blue for Malone – and in African-American custom, jumped a brush on the finish of the marriage, Folks reported. Celeb company included Matt Lauer, Clive Davis, Pleasure Behar, Tamron Corridor, Dana Bash and Alec and Hilaria Baldwin.
“We needed to make a public assertion, and we needed to contain our family members,” Malone instructed Folks. “For lots of them it may be their first homosexual marriage ceremony.”
The couple have been engaged since 2019, when Malone popped the query by placing tags on their canines’ collars that learn: “Daddy will you marry Papa?”
“He gave me a gift on his birthday,” Lemon wrote when he introduced their engagement on social media. “How may I say no?”
Contributing: Sara M. Moniuszko