Apostle Michael Canty of The Truth Ministries Holiness Church
recently angered an entire wedding party and might have damaged his new
ministry’s reputation after he refused to allow a bride wed her husband
on her wedding day because he felt her dress was too sexy.
Lisa Washington said ‘she’s never been more embarrassed than
Saturday’ when a local pastor refused to officiate and allow the bride
to wed her husband on her wedding day in his facility. Both families
were present and the food was waiting to be served at the bride’s aunt
house.
Family members flew and drove long distances to be present for the
couples special day. Upset and frustrated, guest at the wedding
practically ‘begged’ the leaders of the church to reconsider but to no
avail, not a budge.
“I can’t believe this! I flew here to attend my cousin’s wedding and
now I have to put up with this crap. Now this so-called pastor doesn’t
want to come out of his office” said the cousin of the bride.
The wedding scheduled Saturday, June 10th, was scheduled for 3pm.
At 2pm, the pastor greeted the bride and groom when he noticed the
bride’s dress. According to the bride’s mother, the pastor jokingly
asked ‘where is the other half of the dress?’ Not thinking anything of
it, the family laughed it off and continued applying make-up to the
bride. Around 2:30pm the pastor asked a leader of the church to ask the
bride and the family about the other part of her dress. The bride
informed the leader ‘this is it’. The leader reported the news to the
pastor and then the pastor informed face-to-face the bride and groom at
separate times he could not perform the wedding with the bride in her
selected dress. The pastor told the bride she would have to cover up her
bosom area and find a way to add length to the dress. The bride
informed the pastor there is no way to accomplish this with so short
notice and she has to wear her dress. The pastor let her know, he would
not perform the ceremony then walked back to his office.
The wedding party tried many times to change the pastor’s decision
but their efforts was ineffective. Around 4:15pm guest at the wedding
were growing impatience and were looking for answers for the delay. When
they were told the reason for the delay around 4:35pm their impatience
change to anger and disbelief.
After hearing how the bride was crying her eyes out in back, a
minister who was a guest at the wedding offered to perform the ceremony.
When the minister asked the pastor for permission to perform the
ceremony, the pastor told him ‘no’ and expressed to him how his request
was disrespectful.
AmericaPreachers.com asked the bride and groom for pictures of the dress but instead was
sent an email with a link of the exact dress worn by a professional
model from the companies website. The bride did mention, ‘there were
small alterations made to the dress to fit more desirably to my [bride]
vision.’ “I’m a unique person, I chose this dress because it’s different
than the traditional wedding gown you see at every wedding” the bride
said.
Two days later the couple is not married and is currently looking
into options to recoup money their family lost with travel, food, and
other expenses.
The Truth Ministries Holiness Church was established 14 months ago
and currently rent a converted shoe store for worship services. Calls to
Apostle Canty and Truth Ministries were not returned. Neither the bride
or groom were members of the church.