In May, Mr. Whitaker returned to Brooklyn to take Ms. Bamgbose as his date to a friend’s marriage in upstate, N.Y. In June, only 3 months into their relationship, Mr. Whitaker returned to Brooklyn, permanently.
They were intent in May 2019 on a outing to Jamaica and were married Feb. 8 during a Ebell of Los Angeles, a women’s club. The Rev. Dr. Sharon Rhodes-Wickett, a United Methodist minister, officiated. A normal Yoruba marriage rite was hold after that day, with Yimika Olapo, a mistress of ceremony, officiating.
■ The bride graduated from Emory University and perceived a master’s grade in communications from Howard University. She is a daughter of Olayinka T. Bamgbose, a clamp boss and comparison portfolio manager with a California Bank and Trust blurb banking organisation in Los Angeles, and of a late Dr. Olujimi O. Bamgbose, who was a clinical and debate clergyman in private use in Los Angeles.
■ The bride’s consanguine grandfather, a late E. Oke Daniel, was a first member of a Nigerian Society for a Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Her maternal grandfather, a late Moses Oyemade, served as a arch probity of a Western State of Nigeria from 1972 until his retirement in 1975.
■ The groom, who graduated from N.Y.U., is a son of Regina L. Whitaker of Arroyo Grande, and Geronimo A. Whitaker of Seattle. The groom’s mother, a village personality and romantic in a City of San Luis Obispo, late as a public-school clergyman and health educator. His father late as a earthy therapist in private practice. His father also served in a First Air Cavalry Division as an sailor in a Vietnam War.
■The groom’s consanguine grandfather, James Whitaker Sr., lerned during a Tuskegee Institute in aerial fight and served in a Pacific Ocean Theater during World War II.