Black Marriage Day 2010 hits Long Beach, CA with “Celebrate the Joy”

PR Log (Press Release) – Mar 11, 2010 – Black Marriage Day 2010: “Celebrate The Joy”

Blessings All Around, Angela Chester Ministries and Wedded Bliss Foundation, Inc., will present the Eighth Annual Black Marriage Day celebration,
Sunday, March 28, 2010, with the theme “Celebrate The Joy.”

Blessings All Around and Angela Chester Ministries, will join activists in
hundreds of cities around the country to highlight the benefits of
married life and offer celebrations to strengthen and promote marriage
in Long Beach’s Black community. Offering free premarital counseling to
those getting married, Rev. Angela Butts-Chester, knows having a good
foundation is the key to a great marriage.

Wedded Bliss Foundation is also encouraging local Black Marriage Day sponsors across
the country to involve youth in their Black Marriage Day events on
Sunday, March 28, 2010, with film festivals, workshops, conferences,
marriage vow renewals and much more.

“You don’t have to live up to the current statistics on Black marriage in the US. You can be
the one to change the fate of your family. Take back Black love and
marriage! Making a change for yourself, is making a positive change for
the world. You will always be a statistic – why not make it a positive
one?”, explained Angela Chester Ministries’ Spokesperson Rev. Angela
Butts-Chester.

“We’re creating a cultural shift in the Black community to reconsider the benefits of marriage and “Celebrate The
Joy” that exists in spite of the pain we often experience,” Wedded
Bliss Foundation Executive Director Nisa Muhammad said. “Much of what
we hear about marriage in the Black community is a blues song about low
rates, out of wedlock births, escalating divorces and how somebody done
somebody wrong. We want to replace that blues song with a love song of
joy. We want to Celebrate The Joy!“

Black Marriage Day has been celebrated annually at locally sponsored events hosted by
faith-based and community groups on the fourth Sunday of March since
2003. Marriage activists in more than 300 cities participated in 2009,
Mrs. Muhammad said.

Wedded Bliss Foundation and Black Marriage Day activities have been featured nationally in Black
Enterprise and Essence magazines, plus on CNN News, and the Michael
Baisden Show.

Rev. Angela Butts-Chester is a Pastoral Counselor in Long Beach, Ca, with Angela Chester Ministries. She offers
Officiant services with Blessings All Around and hosts I Do Radio. Rev.
Chester is the author of Before You Tie The Knot –A Premarital
Counseling Workbook for the DIY Couple.