Everyone’s just remembering how Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds got married on a plantation

Unless you’re living under a rock at the moment, you will be aware that Blake Lively has been consitently under fire over the last few weeks following the backlash surrounding the It Ends With Us drama. It’s been a bit of a reckoning for Blake Lively, who has been exposed for various things in her past deemed problematic. With journalists posting old interviews and continued rumours of set drama, another thing brought back to the forefront is the fact Blake Lively married her husband Ryan Reynolds in a wedding ceremony taking place on a plantation.

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds got married in 2012 at Boone Hall plantation in South Carolina, a place which when operating during the slave trade has nine slave cabins that was referred to as “Slave Street”. The fact the two chose a venue of misery and racism as their wedding venue attracted criticism at the time, but got renewed backlash for glamourising locations used to inflict violence against black people in 2018 after Ryan Reynolds was branded a hypocrite after he tweeted supporting the Marvel film Black Panther.

In 2020, following the death of George Floyd, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds addressed their regret over the plantation wedding in an Instagram post. “We’re ashamed that in the past we’ve allowed ourselves to be uninformed about how deeply rooted systemic racism is. We want to educate ourselves about other people’s experiences and talk to our kids about everything, all of it … especially our own complicity.” The couple made a $200,000 donation to the NAACP legal defence fund.

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Ryan Reynolds also revealed that he and Blake Lively redid their vows in a private ceremony. “Years ago we got married again at home — but shame works in weird ways. A giant f—— mistake like that can either cause you to shut down or it can reframe things and move you into action,” Reynolds said. “It doesn’t mean you won’t f— up again. But repatterning and challenging lifelong social conditioning is a job that doesn’t end.”

He also said he and Blake were “deeply and unreservedly sorry” for getting married at a plantation. “It’s impossible to reconcile,” Reynolds told Fast Company.“What we saw at the time was a wedding venue on Pinterest. What we saw after was a place built upon devastating tragedy.”

The wedding industry has adapted, with Pinterest banning any plantation wedding visuals on their site.”Weddings should be a symbol of love and unity. Plantations represent none of those things,” a spokesperson for Pinterest said.

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