It began out with a joke between them, as they had been trying at marriage ceremony venues: “Can you imagine a wedding a Mar-a-Lago?”
The National Log Cabin Republicans, a pro-gay rights group, had hosted two galas at Mar-a-Lago earlier than, as soon as in 2020 and once more in 2022, so that they determined to see if a marriage there could be “in the realm of possibility.”
The couple, John Sullivan and Dan Medora, reached out to good buddies and members of Mar-a-Lago Bill White and Bryan Eure, who then reached out to former President Donald Trump and his staff. They fortunately authorised the couple’s request. The subsequent day, they bought a name from the director of catering at Mar-a-Lago. “Can we talk about dates?” she stated.
“It unfolded very quickly. And again, it was not on our radar initially, but we were obviously really, really, really excited and thankful to be able to do it there,” stated Sullivan, who’s the vice chair and treasurer of the Tennessee Log Cabin Republicans.
In a latest interview with Breitbart News, they shared unique particulars and photographs from behind the scenes of what they known as a “perfect wedding.”
Mar-a-Lago is “extremely opulent — reminds you of a castle…when you walk in the first time and you’re kind of in awe,” Sullivan stated. “It’s overwhelming and it’s just gorgeous.”
“The sunset hit right in the middle of the ceremony. And it just made for the most stunning pictures. And it just was a gorgeous setting,” he added. “It really was a wedding beyond our wildest dreams.”
To prime all of it off — they bought to satisfy briefly with Trump the subsequent day as they had been having dinner with their households.
(L-R) Bryan Eure, Dan Medora, John Sullivan and Bill White benefit from the huge day at Mar-a-Lago (LuvRox Photography)
Trump had simply returned from Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). “So he’s walking by. He looks over he says, ‘Hello, everyone, good to see you.’ And I said, ‘President Trump, we just want to say thank you for allowing us to host our beautiful wedding at Mar-a-Lago,’” Sullivan stated.
“And he quickly stopped…turned and looked at us and he said, ‘Was it last night?’ And we said, ‘Yes, it was last night, sir.’ And he said, ‘Well, was everything perfect? Was everything beautiful?’ We said, ‘Yes, it absolutely was. We could not imagine anything better.’”
They stated the employees was additionally so heat to them and shared tales about Trump.
“We got to know a lot of people and when we had the actual ceremony, [as we were] at the top of the stairs getting ready to come down, the entire staff was lined up, and they were smiling. And they were coming out to us afterwards congratulating us the whole weekend,” Sullivan stated.
“They shared a lot of personal stories with their experience with President Trump and the way that he treats them and they told us, ‘It’s a shame that people can’t see beyond the lies told about Trump and to know the real man, that takes care of people,’” he added.
“It definitely shows that it’s not a place of discrimination.”
They stated they weren’t stunned at all that Trump authorised their marriage ceremony, given his previous support for the homosexual neighborhood.
“We know the president’s consistent history of supporting gays,” Sullivan stated. He stated that support extends approach again to 1985, when he first purchased Mar-a-Lago. He stated:
He had the property simply as his residence, after which determined to show it into a non-public membership in Palm Beach. And at the time in Palm Beach, it was, you already know, form of a grimy secret [that] all of the non-public golf equipment excluded African Americans, they excluded Jews, they excluded gays, and whereas this wasn’t in writing anyplace, it was simply it was a identified factor throughout the throughout the neighborhood. President Trump from day one when he opened the membership, it was open to all folks no matter their race, their sexual orientation, their gender, and so on.
“President Trump’s been consistently supportive of the gay community all along,” he added.
Sullivan additionally listed a lot of issues Trump had carried out to support the homosexual neighborhood, together with being the primary president to enter an election supportive of identical intercourse marriage, appointing Richard Grenell as the primary overtly homosexual member of a White House cupboard, and appointing a number of overtly homosexual judges.
One very glad couple (LuvRox Photography)
“He is a friend of the gays. He’s supportive of the LGBT community. He’s been consistent on that. And so we’re excited to see the work he’s able to do when he becomes president in 2025,” he stated.
They stated the expertise was eye-opening for family and friends who had political variations or had heard that Trump was an “awful” one that “hates gay people.” Sullivan stated:
What was very, very particular to see is that a few of these those who possibly had a special view on issues and had been considering that, ‘Oh my gosh, I can’t consider that these these guys are homosexual they usually determined to get married at Mar-a-Lago’ — to see their entire narrative that they’ve been bought for years, listening to that President Trump was this imply, terrible man and hates homosexual folks [be] deconstructed. It was actually neat to see a few of these folks’s eyes be opened by this actually particular time.
They stated since their marriage ceremony, they’ve sarcastically skilled hate from the homosexual left.
“A lot of the most negative and nasty comments come from others in the gay community,” Medora stated. “They preach so much acceptance and inclusion and diversity and everybody’s different, etc. … . It’s unfortunate to see some of the some of the meanest comments and the most negativity come out of a group that proclaims to only want to be included and accepted and to be allowed to love who they want and do what they want.”
Sullivan added, “The whole thing that the Democrats, the left, seems to have to offer right now is simply to divide people and to put people into groups and to pit them against one another, and finding the smallest of disagreements on issues and then trying to divide people.”
“What they have to offer [is] just telling people if you come with us, and you believe you are 100 percent in lockstep with our views, you can be part of our group,” he stated.
Trump, then again, “wants what’s best for all Americans, even those that hate him,” he stated. “I hope people can see a little bit of that out of this experience, that we were able to have our wedding there.”
“We’re just so thankful we had the wedding of our dreams. We’re thankful to our friends, Bill and Bryan, that helped make it possible and we’re very thankful to President Trump and First Lady Melania for allowing us to host our guests there. It was just the most surreal experience that somebody will never forget.”
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