Celebrating Black Brides: Profile #55
/Couple: Phylicia Ayers-Allen and Ahmad Rashad
Date of Wedding: December 14, 1985
Place: Church of the Masters (New York, NY)
Officiant: Rev. Eugene S. Callender
Fun facts:
The groom proposed to the bride on Thanksgiving Day 1985 during a broadcast of a New York Jets-Detroit Lions game.
The bride was walked down the aisle by her tv-husband, Bill Cosby.
The bride's sister, Debbie Allen, served as the maid of honor and the groom's friend and former teammate, OJ Simpson, served as best man.
Only 30 guests attended the private ceremony. No other cast members of the The Cosby Show other than Bill Cosby were present at the wedding.
The couple divorced in 2001.
