Our wedding featured a life-sized unicorn that sneezed glitter, peed lemonade, and shot pink fire. If that sounds more like the twisted fantasy of a six-year-old girl than a standard wedding item… well, that’s just how we roll.

My husband and I met through our local Burning Man community and are friends with some seriously talented fire geeks. We knew we wanted a piece of original fire art for our wedding, so one of our first moves after getting engaged was to ask our friends if they’d create something.

Katy Perry the Wedding Unicorn began her life as a black carousel horse with feathers in her hair.

Upon her arrival in Brooklyn, Master Unicorn Builders Kat and Jesse Green repainted her from black to white, cut holes in her forehead, nostrils, and crotchal region and custom-built a base that would both give her height (aka “majesty”) and house the fuel tanks and keg.

She was named during a routine visit to Jesse’s doctor. They were describing the unicorn to her and she laughingly asked, “What’re you naming it — Katy Perry?” The only answer to that is, of course, “We are now.”

Via Offbeat Bride.