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I've been married before, but I've never had my dream wedding in Vegas. I wanted to do it there because it's casual, quick, not religious and, most of all, very romantic.

In 1958, I was shooting a movie in Florida, and I decided to go to Havana, Cuba, to see what it was like.

I have not been to Cuba, though if you count the stories my grandma told me growing up, I've been there in my head many times. I think someday I will see it, when things are different there, but I've come to feel like I really am a Miami girl.

A lot was happening, plus there were an enormous number of people in the industry that were going to conventions, so it was a pretty fun time. Also there was a lot of controversy and I was at the forefront of some of that.

Miami is one of these great places that is a really sensual, physically beautiful place.

It was a melting pot in Las Vegas. You got every age level, every ethnic background, every social aura - it was an absolute Americana audience... people who were there to celebrate occasions; people who were there to gamble; people who were there because they were awed by the whole Vegas operation. Tourists.

Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ever done before.

Vegas is a celebration.

The wedding took place in Vermont, where they have legalized gay civil unions, and I married a woman.