The display now hangs above their bed as “a constant reminder of our special day,” Mr. It was a joyous moment and we boogied down the aisle into our future.”Īfter the wedding, they had the broom framed with one of their invitations and a piece of Ms. “Everyone cheered and we did a celebratory dance - or more of a quick jig because I can’t really dance.
“When my best man placed the broom in front of us, we held hands, counted to three, and went for it,” Mr. Rocque’s friend Kristi Cherry decorated it with ribbons and faux roses in a pink, purple and gray palette that matched the couple’s wedding colors. They purchased a broom from Amazon, and Ms. “We would be remiss if we did not honor our ancestors who jumped the broom to confirm their love against all odds,” he said. Jackson, a 41-year-old high school teacher, has roots in Oklahoma and Arkansas. Jackson said.Ī native of Tucson, Ariz., Mr. “In many ways, it was the most important element of the ceremony,” Mr. ‘The most transcendental experience’Ībram Jackson and Julius Crowe Hampton jumped the broom at their wedding on July 24, 2021, at the Oakland Museum of California in Oakland, Calif., where they live. Here, four Black couples explain how and why they incorporated the tradition into their modern weddings. Parry said, that population “innovated, reinvented and reimagined jumping the broom in a way that was fulfilling to them.” The practice has since come to signify sweeping away the old and welcoming the new, the joining of two families and showing respect to ancestors. Because enslaved Africans generally had no legal right to marry before the Civil War, they saw jumping the broom as a symbolic way to recognize their unions.
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