- The next guest captured the hearts of 25 million people.
After photos of their engagement went viral.
Please welcome newlyweds, Lucinda Myers and Murphy Wilson.
(Crowd applause)
How did you meet your beautiful wife?
- My first wife passed, and so I was at church
and I couldn't find a seat on the main floor.
So I sat at the balcony and it was a little
about a year or two, but I kept noticing
this woman right here.
And the first thing I saw was her hair and then she
turned around one time and she smiled
and I was like, woo.
- Come on now!
- Woo!
- Come on Murphy.
- But I was kind of holding back cuz
I said well I'm not ready but I couldn't take my eyes off.
That went on for a year and a half.
During our services, they give the people, the congregation
an opportunity to greet each other and we would do that
and I was checking out.
I started checking out, and in fact,
when I was looking at her hair.
I was thinking, I wondered if that's really hers.
So a couple of times, when we would greet each other.
I would say, "oh good to see you here at church."
(Crowd cheers)
So once I figured out that that was
- Hold up Murphy.
Murphy hold up there, hold up.
Oh well, praise the Lord.
God is good.
- Yup.
- Well let me interject something here.
Before that he was looking at me
for a whole year and a half,
before he even had the nerve to say anything,
and I knew about it because
I knew about it because a friend of mine
was sitting a few rows in back of me.
And she says, "you know you have a secret admirer
up here on this balcony?"
I'm like who? Where?
And so she said "Murphy Wilson."
I said, "Murphy Wilson?"
I said, "well he hasn't said anything to me."
I said, " well we'll see how long this is gonna last
because I just sat there and sat there and waited.
And I never looked his way.
I said, "I'm gonna see how long he's take."
- Come on girl.
You better!
Damn.
Listen to me.
Young people pay attention.
This is game!
(crowds cheers)
- Yeah, but wait, wait, wait.
Let me tell you how she did that too.
She knew I was looking and she would sit there
and she turned just a little way like that
and just when I thought I'd see the smile.
(crowd laughs)
- Trap, trap, trap!
(giggling)
- That's right.
And so then, he said to me one day we were greeting
each other at church, he said,
"oh you look awful nice today."
and I said, "what did you say?"
- (giggling) I was in shock.
- No, she said, "I thought she was trying to fight me."
She said, "What'd you say?"
I said, "you look nice today."
- I was in shock because he hadn't said anything
so he took me by surprise when he finally said,
"you look really nice today."
I wasn't expecting that, so when we started greeting,
I said to him because he had already made the first
move already so I said I could make the second one.
So, I said, "where have you been with that pretty smile?"
(crowd cheers)
- Girl, you better go ahead.
What is game right here?
Y'all need to get your papers out, your iPhone.
This is game.
Where you been with that pretty smile?
(giggling)
How long after the first date did y'all get engaged?
- A month and a half?
- A month and half.
- About that.
- About a month and a half after that.
- We knew.
- Yeah, y'all grown.
- We knew.
Everything was like, everything just came together.
- Now you're engagement photos went viral
- Yeah
- Then your wedding photos went viral.
- We were just trying to get married.
- That's all.
- What is it about your story that people connect with?
- Well, most people tell us that we give them hope
that if we can do it, then they have hope that
it can happen for them to.
- Yeah, Lucinda and Murphy, they gonna be sticking
around with us and
they gonna take questions from the audience.
We got some people who have some questions for them
and who better to answer.
Stick around, we'll be right back.
(upbeat music)