The bride wore white ”“ a white rash guard and board shorts, that is. The groom wore a black wetsuit with a white bowtie.

That’s just for starters.

With jetpacks on their backs, Grant Engler, 25, and Amanda Volf, 26 soared above the water to and from their wedding ceremony on the shore at Newport Bay in what’s being touted as the first jetpack wedding ”“ at least in Orange County.

“I can’t take credit for the idea of getting married with a jetpack,” said Engler, general manager for a hotel in Grand Rapids, Mich. “I just handled the proposal.”

But a jetpack wedding is the kind of crazy, out-of-the-box idea that Engler said perfectly suited him and his new bride, given how both of them are always up for an adventure.

Engler happened to be wearing a Zozi T-shirt, a memento from a previous job, on the morning that he proposed to Volf on a Mexican beach. A tourist snapped a photo of them, and on a whim, Engler emailed the photo to Zozi, a guided-adventure travel startup in San Francisco to tell the company about his wedding proposal.

The photo created a buzz at Zozi, said Tian Lee, company spokeswoman. Someone at the firm remembered one of their merchants, Jetlev Southwest in Newport Beach, which offers 20-minute to 30-minute jetpack flight adventures from $199 to $279.

Soon the question became, “Why don’t we send them off in jetpacks and get them married?” Lee said.

Zozi representatives called Engler to pitch the idea of them planning a jetpack wedding for the couple. It took mere seconds for Engler to say yes, but he said that he would need to check with Volf. When Volf said yes, Zozi employees set about planning the wedding.

Lee said that the Engler-Volf jetpack wedding was a one-time event for the company. “Grant and Amanda are pretty fun-loving and down for anything,” Lee said, “They take on life.”

On Thursday morning, the couple spent about three hours first learning how to soar and maneuver with the jetpacks, then following a choreographed flight path.

The jetpacks weigh about 25 pounds and are controlled by hand. The more water the couple used in the jetpacks, the higher or faster they flew.

The wedding ceremony kicked off with Engler getting airborne, hovering as high as 10 feet above Newport Bay and coming in for a smooth landing. Five minutes later at the other end of the stretch of beach, Volf had a bit of wedding-day jitters and chose not to soar too high.

“Once I saw (Engler), I felt better,” she said.

When they were finally pronounced man and wife standing on the shore, the nervousness dissipated, and it was time to cut loose and gain some altitude ”“ to the hoots and hollering of the wedding party on the shore. About 40 attended the wedding.

“The jetpacks were a blast to use, and easy to learn,” Engler said. His new wife agreed. “It was an amazing feeling to fly over the water,” she said.

But with this adventure behind them, they are on to the next.

For their honeymoon, it will be something just as adrenaline-pumping: zip lining in Costa Rica.