Mobile Wedding

Mobile (IPA: [mobil] or mo-BEEL) is a city located in Mobile County, Alabama, US, along the northwest shores of Mobile Bay. As of the 2004 US Census estimate, the city had a population of 203,564. It is the principal city of the Mobile metropolitan statistical area (MSA), which has a population of approximately 400,529.[1]

The city's name is derived from the presence of the Mobile (Mauvile or Maubila) Indians in the area at the time of founding. (See Mobilian.)

The city is the county seat of Mobile County. Mobile is home to the second largest, and is the oldest, Mardi Gras celebration in the US (1703), predating New Orleans.[2] Mobile is the only saltwater port in Alabama. (See: Bayou La Batre, shrimp boats.)

Beginning as the first capital of French colonial Louisiana in 1702, during the past 300 years, Mobile has officially flown six flags, including France, Britain, Spain, the Republic of Alabama (1819-1861), the Confederacy, and the United States (see History below).