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wcked:caliphorniaqueen:the-perks-of-being-black:“…[This] text never happened and the couple isn’t named Rogerand Kirsten.But don’t worry! The photo is real. The couple is Amyand Ian and they got married in Detroit….” RyanBroderick, BuzzFeed“Amy andIan Hicks saw their unique wedding photo and the story about it everywhere… — inPeoplemagazine, the New York Post,the Daily Mailand of course on Reddit,where the tale went viral….It justdidn’t happen. ‘I really wish they knew the real story,’ Amy Hicks said in an interviewwith The Washington Post. ‘It’s amazing how many legitimate news publications willpost anything online.’No publicationcalled them to get the real story, they said….…Amy, 25,and Ian Hicks, 28, live in Washington, D.C, where she works in government relationsand he works in sales for a furniture manufacturer. Their wedding took place inDetroit because Amy is from Michigan….” Kiratiana Freelon, The Washington Post“…Their wedding photographer, Adam Sparkes, told BuzzFeed hewatched his photo go viral, but figured it would sort itself out. After Elite Daily ran with it, though, the whole thingcompletely exploded on Facebook.Sparkes tried to set the record straight in the comments sectionof Elite Daily but it got buried on Facebook.The real story is that Amy and Ian went to a local abandonedspot in Detroit to shoot some street photos when they stumbled across the rapgroup 7262 shooting a video……And then 7262 invited them into the shoot….” Ryan Broderick, BuzzFeed“…The truth of how this photographcame to be is way better than what the comical, albeit borderline racist, internetfiction suggests…. I [talked] with Detroit based wedding photographer Adam Sparkes about the real story that led to thisinternet sensation. Adam told me he had a really busyday with his wedding clients, Amy and Ian, that day inDetroit: ‘There was a Tigers game that had the theater district really tied up,so the bride and groom thought it would be a fun idea to go over to the remainsof Michigan Central Station….…As thegroup of them drove around town in a trolley, they took it down Michigan Avenueto the Central Station where they happened upon a large group of young guys filminga video. ‘They had a tricked out Monte Carlo and a Cutlass and were in full musicvideo mode,’ he told me. Adam had his group take some photographs on the other sideby some planter boxes, but the group making the video noticed them.‘I askedthe groom if he wanted to be famous, and jokingly we yelled, ‘Hey we’re going tobe in your video!’ The guys were all laughing and told us to come on over, so wedid.’ Who wouldn’t take advantage of such a golden moment? The wedding party dancedand posed with the guys and had an amazing time together in a spontaneous momentof carefree fun….” Aaron Brown, Fstoppers“…You can watch Amy and Ian and their bridal party absolutelycrushing it in the video here:“…So, while the we still coming text might have been a hoax, luckily thereal story is just as amazing.” Ryan Broderick, BuzzFeedPhotos by Adam SparkesI’m glad the real story is going aroundWoooooow -- source link

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