They may have been Bonnie and Clyde back in 2003, but now they are Mr. and Mrs. Carter. And on Thursday (April 4)
Beyoncé and
Jay-Z celebrated five years of wedded bliss in Cuba, with their moms in tow.
According to the
Associated Press,
they spent their anniversary day walking around the colonial Old Havana
district with their bodyguards. Beyoncé sported a bright yellow frock
with her braided hair done up while Jay-Z wore a polo shirt and a
fedora.
Photos show the pair walking hand-in-hand, with crowds
gathering for a glimpse. At one point, Beyoncé even took a photo with
local school children.
The night before, they hit up local
restaurant La Guarida with their mothers. Jay puffed on a cigar while
she took photos of him, according to restaurant manager Beberan
Aemereca, who spoke to
E! News about the dinner.
"Everyone
was surprised when they came in," he said. "They looked like a family,
like a family dinner. It was like they were on vacation and were very
relaxed and happy."
While inside the Havana restaurant, fans
shouted Beyoncé's name and she eventually went to the balcony to wave to
them. "She was beautiful, without a drop of makeup, very natural,"
waitress Silvia Fernandez told the
AP."What happened with the people was incredible." E! reports Jay-Z also joined her on the balcony to say hi to their fans.
The
couple married on April 4, 2008 in a rather secret ceremony in New York
City and welcomed their first child, Blue Ivy, into the world in 2012.
The same day they celebrated their wedding anniversary, Beyoncé dropped a
teaser of a new song,
"Grown Woman," off her
2013 album release.
On the funky Timbaland-produced track, she sings, "I could be bad if I
want / I can go slow all night long / I'm a grown woman/ Do whatever I
want."
Earlier this week, Bey also dished about
being Mrs. Carter in the new issue of
Vogue
U.K. "I feel like Mrs. Carter is who I am, but more bold and more
fearless than I've ever been," she said. "It comes from knowing my
purpose and really meeting myself once I saw my child. I was like, 'OK,
this is what you were born to do'. The purpose of my body became
completely different."