--- title: Gay Couple Makes Wedding Entrance on Unicorn Jet Skis: Video description: Buchanan, a Broadway actor, and his partner, Gilbert, greeted their 8o guests by arriving on a set of unicorn jet skis. canonical: https://time.com/4016076/wedding-entrance-unicorn-jet-skis/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-29T18:20:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:10.616Z og:title: This Couple Made the Wedding Entrance to End All Wedding Entrances og:description: How? 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Buchanan, a Broadway actor, and his partner, Gilbert, greeted their 8o guests by arriving on a set of unicorn jet skis, Logo TV[ reports.](http://www.newnownext.com/gay-grooms-make-triumphant-wedding-reception-entrance-on-unicorn-jet-skis/08/2015/) Behold, their grand entrance: “The entrance was actually the brainchild of my friend,” Buchanan[ told ](http://www.buzzfeed.com/nickguillory/a-couple-rode-into-their-wedding-reception-on-unicorn-jet-sk?bffb&utm%5Fterm=4ldqpgp#.ile5388v3y)BuzzFeed. “He thought, ‘big gay wedding?’ We should decorate the jet skis as unicorns. We found inflatable unicorn busts online and voilà.” Here’s a closer look at the end result: > [](https://twitter.com/LogoTV/status/636585534102630400) “Once we all realized that they were riding in on unicorn jet skis, I am pretty sure there was a collective jaw drop,” executive director of Marriage Equality USA Brian Silva, who was in attendance, told LOGO TV. “Followed by laughter, applause and a chorus of folks screaming, ‘YAAAAAS!'” _Read next:_ [_Watch How Many Pop Songs This Couple Packed Into Their Epic Wedding Music Video_](http://time.com/4014959/250-wedding-guests-music-video/?iid=time%5Freadnext) ## Transcript Marriage, it has a long and storied tradition all over the world. Some ceremonies are small, others are flashy, expensive, even televised events. Some are between dogs. Who are we to argue with love, right? Some weddings are presidential, the White House has hosted more than a dozen weddings. But only one actively serving U. S. president ever tied the knot there, Grover Cleveland. He married Frances Folsom Cleveland in the blue room in 1886. With musical accompaniment by none other than John Philip Sousa. But it's hard to get more glamorous than George Clooney's wedding to Amal Alamuddin. An actor and lawyer getting married in Venice with names such as Matt Damon and Bill Murray on the guest list. Oh and the paparazzi. It's a hive of activity. People stopping outside to take photos. Paparazzi camped outside. You can also see them lurking around the city. [ MUSIC ] These canals on speedboat. And that's nothing compared to what was arguably the most watched wedding of all time, Prince Charles wed Lady Diana Spencer in 1981 in front of a congregation of 3, 500 and a global television audience estimated at 750 million. It was also one of the most expensive weddings ever, ringing in at nearly 70 million dollars in today's prices. Prince William and Kate Middleton's ceremony was only half that by comparison. On the other end of that particular spectrum, Was activist Gypsy Taub's nude wedding to fellow nudist James Smith at San Francisco's City Hall in 2013. She saved a lot of money on a wedding dress, but the police fined and arrested the couple for the unusual ceremony. So perhaps attorney's fees made it a wash. Maybe even more unusual is the concept of mass weddings. At Unification Church ceremonies, thousands of couples exchange rings all at once. 2500 couples are tying the knot at exactly the same time. A mass wedding of the unification church. And yes, there are dog weddings. Their owners are professional wedding photographers, and they say that like most crazy ideas, don't I know it, this one was born over a bottle of wine. Official? 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