Black Marriage Day will be celebrated Sunday, March 28, 2010.  It is celebrated annually at locally sponsored events hosted by faith-based and community groups on the fourth Sunday of each March.  Starting with only 30 cities in 2003, marriage activists in hundreds of cities celebrated Black Marriage Day in March 2009 to highlight the benefits of marriage, pay tribute to successful marriages, and to promote marriage in the Black Community.  

Local government proclamations have recognized Black Marriage Day as promoting the strong families needed to build and maintain safe and healthy communities.  

More than 300 local sponsors plan to celebrate Black Marriage Day 2010.  Wedded Bliss Foundation plans to encourage couples across the country to renew their wedding vows on Black Marriage Day 2010, Sunday, March 28, 2010, with the theme: “Celebrate The Joy.”  

Black Marriage Day is sponsored by the Wedded Bliss Foundation, Inc., 236 Massachusetts Avenue NE, Suite 610, Washington, DC 20002.  Wedded Bliss Foundation Executive Director, Nisa Muhammad, created the national initiative to promote marriage in the Black community in response to the bleak statistics about marriage.  

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 unpartnered group in the country.  

Black Marriage Day was started to create cultural change in the Black community to rethink the way we look at marriage.  Marriage must be celebrated and our community must begin the celebration. 

Celebrate The Joy!