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Thursday, March 28, 2013

Cole Wedding Day

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Nat "King" Cole and Maria Cole dance at their wedding reception 65 years ago today on March 28, 1948 which fell on Easter Sun that year. Photo by Lisa Larsen/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images.
 
Photo: Nat "King" Cole and Maria Cole dance at their wedding reception 65 years ago today on March 28, 1948, which happened to be Easter Sunday that year. Photo by Lisa Larsen/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images.
 
 
Maria Cole converses with the Reverend Adam Clayton Powell Jr. and his wife Hazel Scott at her wedding reception after marrying Nat King Cole 65 years ago today on March 28, 1948. Reverend Powell, the legendary Harlem congressman, officiated at the ceremony at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem.
 
According to Michael Henry Adams - author of the beautiful coffee table book, "Harlem Lost and Found" - Ms. Cole wore a $700 ice-blue satin dress, a gift from her educator aunt, Charlotte Hawkins Brown, designed by none other than VBG fashion designer legend, Zelda Wynn Valdes.
 
Photo by Lisa Larsen/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images.
 


Photo: Maria Cole chats with the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. and his wife Hazel Scott at her wedding reception after marrying Nat King Cole 65 years ago today on March 28, 1948. Rev. Powell, the legendary Harlem congressman of course, officiated at the ceremony at Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem. According to Michael Henry Adams, author of the beautiful coffee table book, "Harlem Lost and Found," Ms. Cole wore a $700 ice-blue satin dress (a gift from her educator aunt, Charlotte Hawkins Brown) designed by none other than VBG fashion designer legend, Zelda Wynn Valdes! Photo by Lisa Larsen/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images.



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