Officially Mr And Mrs Quotes

Do you want to marry me?” He touched his forehead to hers. “I do.” She wanted to tell him more, but couldn’t think of how to word it. He was her accomplice, her boss, her opponent. “I know.” He could see it in her eyes, as only he could do. The officiate kept on, the droning words harmonizing with the waves. Mist from the ocean sprinkled over them. “Where there’s you, there’s always gonna be me. As long as I breathe,” Beckett told her. She touched his lips with her fingertips. “I know.” The next words came in with another wave. “I now pronounce you husband and wife. Congratulations, Mr. and Mrs. Taylor.

Jim Crow etiquette at the time required Black people to address white people as “Mr.” and “Mrs.” but allowed white people of all ages to refer to Black adults by their first names, which is one reason that King began asking white officials in Montgomery to call him “Dr. King” and why members of his congregation exulted in their pastor’s new honorific.