Gay Couple Celebrates Life/Death Together

LOS ANGELES, CA -- A gay California couple decided for a rather unorthodox commitment ceremony when inviting all their friends to celebrate the couple's plans to spend life, and eternity, together.

Bernardo Puccio and Orin Kennedy invited friends to join them at Hollywood Forever, the final resting place of Tyrone Power, John Huston, Marion Davies and Fay Wray, among other people, The Los Angeles Times reported. Puccio, an interior designer, and Kennedy, a retired location manager, have been a couple for more than 30 years.

"No one, to our knowledge, has taken this approach — to celebrating life in a cemetery," Kennedy said a few days before the party. "We've always celebrated things in a big way. Any excuse to have a party."

"This hasn't been done before," said Puccio, who considers himself a trendsetter. "I was the originator of the black T-shirt under a sports coat," he pointed out. "I did that before anyone else."

After having revealed for their guests the monument under which the couple plans to spend eternity together, currently occupied by the remains of their beloved white cat Cristal, guests were led into the Hollywood Cathedral Mausoleum, a crypt that holds, among others, the remains of Rudolph Valentino. There the guests were treated to a documentary video about the couple's life.