Welcome to Black Marriage Day - Columbus, GA

Black Marriage Day - Columbus, GA is the local component of Black Marriage Day, the national initiative of The Wedded Bliss Foundation, Inc., a Washington, DC-based organization founded by Nisa Muhammad to promote marriage in the Black community in response to the bleak statistics about marriage.  It is celebrated annually at locally sponsored events hosted by faith-based and/or community groups on the fourth Sunday of March each year.  Starting with only 30 cities in 2003, marriage activists in over three hundred cities celebrated Black Marriage Day in March 2011 to highlight the benefits of marriage, pay tribute to successful marriages, and to promote marriage in the Black Community.

Marriage is the most important relationship in an adult's life next to God. Studies show that, for the couple, marriage produces longer life, better health, higher income, and a greater accumulation of wealth. Couples report better sexual relations and their children tend to do better in life. In communities where marriages flourish, the property value is higher, crime is lower and there are better schools. In communities where marriages fail, or fail to happen, the opposite exists; property values are lower, crime is higher and schools are poor.

The Black community has suffered for years with declining marriage rates, increasing divorces, and nearly 70 percent of their children being born out of wedlock, according to US Government figures, with Black women being the most un-partnered group in the country.

Black Marriage Day creates cultural change in the Black community and allows us to rethink the way we look at marriage. If marriage must be celebrated, the Black community must begin the celebration.

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