Dream or nightmare? LGBTQI stars contemplate same-sex wedding ideas

Love is in the air, with champagne corks set to pop at same-sex weddings all over the country from this Tuesday, January 9.
To mark the occasion we asked several prominent Australians how they planned to celebrate, and if they might be considering a dream wedding of their own.
Kylie Minogue took time out on the red carpet at the premiere of riotous 70s-set Aussie comedy Swinging Safari to address the issue with The New Daily.
Fans have been asking if sheāll sing at same-sex weddings. āI seem to be getting asked this a lot,ā Minogue laughed, adding, āLetās hope so, Iād love for that to work out.ā
The Slap and Barracuda author Christos Tsiolkas said he and long-term partner Wayne wouldnāt head down the aisle.
A few years back, they celebrated what Tsiolkas calls a ā101 partyā the year they both turned 40 ā 40 times two plus the 21 years they had been together at that point.
āAll our families came, all our friends, and that night was so very special for us, not only as a celebration of our love and commitment but also a celebration of the world of family we came from and the world of friends that we are part of,ā he says. āI canāt imagine a ādream weddingā beating that night.ā
He added: āI donāt need a church or temple or mosque to validate my love and as long as the state affords me the exact same rights as it does married people I donāt want the state to have anything to do with my personal affairs.ā
Screen Time presenter Benjamin Law, creator of hit SBS series The Family Law, responded that his ultimate dream wedding would be attending someone elseās.
āLook, I love a good wedding etcetera, but personally, the only thing worse than getting married myself would be ā I donāt know ā watching the Turnbull government spend around $100 million on a divisive drawn-out postal survey which saw verbal and physical assaults against LGBTIQ Australians double after its announcement.ā
Michael Dalton, better known as celebrated drag queen Dolly Diamond,Ā said heās got his wedding day sorted.
āApparently youāve got to have a partner to get married and Iām between men at the moment, but that doesnāt stop me planning ahead,ā Dalton said.
āIām getting our suits made by Carl Nave, so stylish, Iām having the wedding at the Regent Theatre and then Iām flying to Phuket for my honeymoon with Jack, or maybe Ryan. Itās going to be stylishly tacky.ā
Award-winning comedian and actor Zoe Coombs Marr says the idea of marriage seems a bit ridiculous to her, but years of being asked about it has developed a dream wedding idea sheās fairly sure sheās only joking about.
āYouāre in a forest clearing, itās dusk. The guests stand surrounded by giant tartan curtains on all sides, open to the sky. My betrothed and I enter on horseback,ā she explained.
āWe are dressed in the style of Brigadoon⦠The vows happen, and at the final āI now pronounce youā¦ā moment, Everybody In The House Of Love plays, the curtains fall⦠LAZERS! SMOKE MACHINES! Itās a 90s Bush Doof!ā








