Alan Cumming loves weddings for the party

Nobody can party like the gays. And gay weddings brought the party for actor Alan Cumming. He was so happy to be allowed to marry his longterm partner because it meant he could throw a big party for his family and friends.

After two years of dating, Cumming wed Grant Shaffer in a lavish star-studded civil partnership ceremony in 2007, three years after same-sex marriage was introduced in the U.K.

“It meant a lot here (in the U.K.) and in a symbolic way, being able to claim rights that everyone should have and here you do and in America you don’t,” said Cumming.

“Gay people didn’t have that thing until recently where you can have all your family and friends to celebrate your relationship and that was a really lovely thing to do. I hadn’t realized that was something gay people aren’t allowed to do.”