Occupy Wall Street Wedding: Couple Marries In Zuccotti Park (PHOTOS)

Occupy encampments across the nation are proving to be much like the larger cities they're built within. The pitfalls of city life -- drug abuse, violence, death -- are a constant presence in many locales. But so too are the surprising pleasures of urban density -- like bumping into the person you're going to marry right in the middle of your neighborhood.

That's exactly what happened for Occupy Wall Street protestors, Emery Abdel-Latif, 24, and Micha Balon, 19, who met when both were searching for a place to pray in New York's Zuccotti Park. After meeting less than six weeks ago, the Muslim couple tied the knot on Sunday at the demonstration site.

"Neither of us believed in love before we came here, and now that we found each other, we believe it exists," Abdel-Latif told the New York Daily News. "When I came up here, this was the farthest thing from my mind but it's happening. I'm just happy."

This is the second wedding at an Occupy encampment, the first was held last month at Occupy Philadelphia. In October, a man proposed to his girlfriend using a human megaphone at Occupy Wall Street.

Below, photos from the couple's wedding.

 

 

Comments

[Lion0227]

11:08 PM on 11/30/2011

I wish this couple all the happiness & love in their marriage! They will have some great stories to tell their grandkids about their wedding day!

[bobcroz]

09:44 AM on 11/16/2011

Wow...what a warm and fuzzy moment. He, all aglow, giving glimpses of the wacky, live life to the fullest, cheery disposition, that will permeate their future relationship. She, surrounded by her new, and apparently somewhat confused in-laws, that will be there to help with future dietary needs and
wardrobe adjustments. They, striding side by side through the burgeoning filth of the park. Wait...
....never mind, I thought there was a tear coming.

[cali4856]

08:13 AM on 11/16/2011

The only thing I could think of is that she wears the bottom of coke bottles for glasses and someone stole or stepped on them. This poor girl.

[julesikinpcb]

07:50 AM on 11/16/2011

Rots of ruck

[vonwoomer]

07:45 AM on 11/16/2011

Looks like she married a moslem. If she hasn't converted her life is about to turn into a feminist's "hell"....in a worldly sense.....

[IvyRedhead Hoffart]

09:27 AM on 11/16/2011

It's spelled M-U-S-L-I-M and from the way the article is written, it implies that she was MUSLIM before she got married.

[AmyP4]

07:22 AM on 11/16/2011

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[JamesMac007]

07:22 AM on 11/16/2011

This is so sweeeeet! Two IDIOTS getting married!!

[patric9956]

07:19 AM on 11/16/2011

So did the atheists in the crowd boo them and tell them that the Prophet was a myth? Of course not, the atheists pick easy targets since they are utter cowards. I am guessing that mom and dad are probably not delighted about this wedding since they did not arrange the pairing. Those kids... what are we going to do with them?

[mu chowdhury]

07:03 AM on 11/16/2011

"searching for a place to pray in New York's Zuccotti Park." Trees with yellow foliage
of classic fall, wanted to pray for love of God, fell prey to God of love..."
Its pity that John Keats left us so early...

[jnjackman]

06:01 AM on 11/16/2011

Ahhhhhh......the huffpost should start doing bio's on the moron encampments too??? Since they are infatuated with a couple of hundred losers crapping on themselves across the country. Unbelievable how so few people can get so much press and attention.

[boom-truth]

05:42 AM on 11/16/2011

They will honeymoon in a tent without showering.......How romantic.

[mu chowdhury]

06:38 AM on 11/16/2011

As if you did not?

[msm0207]

02:44 AM on 11/16/2011

I love romance. I'm concerned because she's so young and hasn't known him very long in a "normal" environment. I did notice that all the women in the picture with her were wearing traditional headscarves. I wonder why she wasn't. I would like to know if he is here on a studen visa. It doesn't say where they live.

More to follow maybe.

[intellifran]

09:42 AM on 11/16/2011

She will be soon. P.S. it's not mandatory it's middle eastern culture. Big difference.

[msm0207]

02:33 AM on 11/16/2011

Wonder what his immigration status is? Hmmm.. Bet his folks won't like her. Looks American.

[mu chowdhury]

06:34 AM on 11/16/2011

You appear hypersensitive to romance.
You need vaccination. At first, it was likely
that you start with congrats (though fake to
you...) and then sow the seeds of separation
and hatred. And if you succeed, you make
a head line," ...and the American girl was
married to a MUslim terrorist." Am I right?

[Lion0227]

11:06 PM on 11/30/2011

Seriously? Do you live in Alabama?? Here in the Northern states we DO NOT assume people are undocumented by their looks alone. Jeez!

[Atilla the Hun]

02:08 AM on 11/16/2011

AWWWWW.....What a great way to begin a life of left wing loon ideology. Who knows, maye someday they'll even get jobs and join the real world...we can only hope!!!!

[mu chowdhury]

06:39 AM on 11/16/2011

Liberal way to start. Congrats and wish to
see them in anti-war demos in American
streets.

F&F

[poorboots]

09:20 AM on 11/16/2011

And we all know how far those anti-war demos get us.

[Junaid Noori]

01:24 AM on 11/16/2011

Reading all these comments, it saddens me and makes me glad I'm living in Canada. My better half is Jewish. She's my hero. I would cut my own hands off before I dare lay a finger on her.

I know this is all anecdotal evidence, but it infuriates me to think the presumption is that I'm a wife beater because I'm a practicing Muslim.

For those who haven't read the article accurately, she was already a Muslim before she met him. They are both at Occupy Wall Street, which means they're both probably liberals.

[DKK77]

01:36 AM on 11/16/2011

Only until they get married. Then she gets subjugated. Not all muslims are as enlightened as you. but tell us, please, does your wife cover her body and her head? Does she drive? Is she educated? Does she work outside the home?

You are right about the unfairness of being painted as a wife beater. but you are wrong about the way the religion treats women, It limits a woman's rights, and anything that does that is just wrong in most people's eyes (unless of course, one's mission is to control his wife)

[Junaid Noori]

02:55 AM on 11/16/2011

You are a sad, pitiful human being.

[ThreeCatNight]

09:30 AM on 11/16/2011

If you can manage to read and actually understand the above, Mr. Noori said that his wife is Jewish. She lives according to her own lights, as does he. He does not subjugate her. As Mr. Rogers would say, "That's a big word, isn't it, boys and girls?"

[mu chowdhury]

06:43 AM on 11/16/2011

Great. A lighthouse post.

F& F