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That moment when your bridal party looks like Future's album cover and Twitter goes wild




Newlyweds Donovan Livingston and Lauren West-Livingston are die-hard hip-hop heads.

From the time he first heard Lauren spit a “dope 16,” Donovan was smitten. They started dating in 2011 and got engaged in December of 2013, and their wedding ended up being just weeks shy of the release of rapper Future’s highly anticipated album, Dirty Sprite 2.

When the album dropped, Donovan and Lauren noticed something a bit … curious: The cover art matched their wedding color scheme to a T.

It was completely serendipitous, but Twitter didn’t care. After the couple’s wedding photos hit Instagram, the #FutureHive – as the trap artist’s fans are called – went codeine crazy.













We actually talked to Lauren and Donovan, and it really, really was an accident. According to Lauren:
“We were not huge, huge Future fans. We joke around that we’re now the reluctant poster child – the poster children of Dirty Sprite 2. Like, we like Future but we’re not, like, huge fans. It was just a coincidence.”
She explains that her favorite color is turquoise and Donovan’s is purple.
“In terms of the color scheme, we thought those colors in the summer would look really nice together because they’re both really bright. Donovan came up with the idea to do the gradient, which is why we had everyone in different colors so that it wasn’t too much.”
Capitalizing on fate, the couple decided that a track list program featuring the cover art would be a perfect complement to their hip-hop-themed wedding, which paid homage to the myriad subgenres of hip-hop and honored classics such as Erykah Badu and Common’s and UGK and OutKast’s .

The only Future song to play that day? Commas, Donovan says.
“We were in the middle of taking pictures (at the reception) and we just ran to the dance floor and rapped it together."
It will probably be one of the songs they remember. Or at least, Twitter will never let them forget it.