A Michigan couple is turning heads around the country with their wedding that used President Trump’s slogan of Make America Great Again.

The wedding, held on Independence Day at Historic Bowen Mills in the West Michigan community of Middleville, had the hashtag #MAGAPatriotWedding, bride Audra Johnson told MLive.

The most head-turning aspect was the custom MAGA wedding dress that she wore for the reception.

The wedding day celebrated Audra and Jeff’s love along with their love of country and President Donald Trump, she said. But not everyone has been supportive.

Audra and Jeff Johnson, of Grand Rapids, were surrounded by friends and family dressed up in red, white and blue when they exchanged vows on the Fourth of July.

“Everything was red, white and blue,” Audra Johnson said.

Details were key, Audra Johnson said. Her nails were painted with American flags. The groomsmen had red ties and vests, and cufflinks stating, “Don’t Tread on Me.” The bridesmaids wore blue dresses. The flower girls wore white dresses and red, white and blue ribbons. Each table at the reception had an an anti-abortion “heartbeat bill” petition. The white cake was decorated with strawberries and blueberries.

Audra Johnson wore a traditional white wedding dress for the ceremony. She changed into a MAGA-themed gown by celebrity designer Andre Soriano - who is famous for his Trump dresses - for the reception and a few photos.

The dress has sparkling red lettering down the front that reads “Make America Great Again.” The words are underscored with red lines and stars. The mermaid-style dress also featured a train emblazoned with sparkly red letters reading “TRUMP.”

It was made out of a MAGA flag, which was not a breathable fabric for the hot Independence Day, Audra Johnson said.

Jeff Johnson is a veteran of the U.S. Marines and served in the U.S. Army. He wore his Marines dress blues for the ceremony and reception.

Jeff Johnson served in the U.S. Marines from August 2002 to September 2006 in Twentunine Palms, California. He served two combat tours in Iraq, he told MLive. From February 2007 to February 2011, he served in the U.S. Army and was station in Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

Audra Johnson is a captain for Michigan Heartbeat Coalition, works for West Michigan Patriots for Trump, is a GOP precinct delegate and is a militia member.

Almost everyone in the wedding party wore a MAGA hat for pictures, Audra Johnson said. The one exception was the maid of honor who is a Democrat. She wore a plain red hat instead.

“We did what most adults do and compromised,” she said. “She wore a red hat and I said, ‘That’s perfect.’”

Before the patriotic theme was even thought of, Jeff Johnson’s father told the couple that he would not attend their wedding because they support President Trump, Audra Johnson said. They were engaged in November 2018.

Now that the wedding is making national news, people are targeting the couple and their friends and family with threats.

“I had to have militia members stay at my house last night,” Audra Johnson said.

One of the groomsmen, who lives in Arizona, had to contact police because people were threatening to bomb his house, she said.

“It gets really sad when you realize that there’s such a divide in this country that we can’t even disagree,” Audra Johnson said.

She would “absolutely” attend a Barack Obama-themed wedding because she doesn’t have to agree to love.

“It wasn’t a political stunt – it’s legit what we wanted. It wasn’t to make a political statement,” Audra Johnson said. “I want people to realize that it was such a diverse group of people that got together that day. We were able to understand that we don’t all have to agree to still share love together. I think that’s what people are missing out on.”

And the hashtag? It wasn’t a ploy to make the event go viral, she said. Hashtags are commonly used for weddings as a way to find guests’ photos.

It’s the modern equivalent of the disposable cameras used at weddings in the 1990s.