‘It Was Straight to the Point. She Said Something About Marriage, I Said, ‘You Wanna Do It?’

BY JE’DON HOLLOWAY-TALLEY | Special to the Birmingham Times CARRIE & LARRY WOODEN Live: Hoover Married: March 22, 2008 Met: October 2003, during Magic City Classic weekend, at Smitty City nightclub in Birmingham. Carrie and a group of friends were en route to an Omega party when they pulled over at Smitty City to use the restroom. Carrie said she was wearing a pair of very high heels that were difficult to walk in when Larry came to her rescue. “He was parked outside of the club and I asked him if I could sit on his car and wait for my friends to come out of the restroom, and he helped me get up on the back of his car and that’s how we started talking,” Carrie recalled. “And when he smiled I told my friend ‘he’s gonna be my husband’. We exchanged numbers, but I didn’t know he was just visiting from Michigan. His brother went to Alabama State and played in the band, so Larry came down here to see him play [at the Classic].” Larry said he and some friends landed outside of Smitty City nightclub because the streets were crowded and they wanted to get...