Yes, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds had their wedding at a former plantation, and controversy ensued. The A-list stars that we love and adore chose South Carolina's Boone Hall Plantation & Gardens ...
Dozens of Black people were enslaved at Boone Hall. The year before her wedding, the plantation was prominently mentioned in ...
If you don’t want to read the whole thing, the N-word part is on pages 22-24, and the stuff about the plantation wedding and black waitstaff is on pages 124-132. Here’s what I learned from ...
The owner of Boone Hall, Willie McRae, told the Charleston Post-Courier in January that he's "not ashamed" of holding weddings on the property and most of the people at the plantation for events ...
The plantation features nine slave cabins built ... Reynolds added that after learning of Boone Hall's history, the actors had another wedding at home years later. Lively has not addressed the ...