Just married! Rush Limbaugh and Kathryn Rogers (Click on the photo for more)

Conservative Palm Beach radio talker Rush Limbaugh finally released some of his wedding photos today, via his new Facebook page.

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Limbaugh, 59, was married June 5 at The Breakers in Palm Beach to 33-year-old charity executive Kathryn Rogers. And although he talked about the celebration on the air, he wouldn’t release any photos — until now.

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Got to give it to Delray Beach developer and philanthropist Frank McKinney: He sure knows how to keep the fires of love burning!

When McKinney proposed to interior decorator Nilsa 21 years ago, it made news throughout the state.

Clad in a camouflage outfit one night, he climbed a water tower in Boca Raton and hung a banner asking Nilsa to marry him.

He had neighborhood residents shine lights on the tower so she could see.

Nilsa said yes.

Still does.

McKinney, a builder of beachside properties in SoFla and homes for the poor in Haiti, surprised Nilsa by handing her the old wedding gown Tuesday afternoon then whisked her away to St. Vincent Ferrer Church to renew their vows.

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Members of the legendary British heavy metal band Def Leppard watched Friday evening as guitarist Phil Collen and movie costume maker Helen Simmons were hitched in a poolside ceremony at the Ritz Carlton in Manalapan.

First kiss (click on the Mike Jachles photo for the entire gallery)

Quoting from poet Maya Angelou’s Touched by an Angel and writings by the Dalai Lama, Miami interfaith minister Eddie Rodriguez pronounced the reformed wild man Collen, 52, and Simmons, 42, husband and wife before 60-plus guests. The well-wishers, who received guitar picks bearing the lovers’ names, included fellow Leppard members and British guitar legends Rick Savage and Vivian Campbell.

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J.J Redick: That way to the chapel! (Orlando Sentinel photo)

The thing for celebs to do these days seems to be getting hitched in Palm Beach.

In the wake of the big Rush Limbaugh wedding this month, and in anticipation of the July 16 exchange of vows between Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen and his fiancee, Orlando Magic star J.J. Redick made an honest woman out of Palm City beauty Chelsea Kilgore over the weekend.

Three-point shooter Redick, 26, who lit up the scoreboard during the recent NBA playoffs but couldn’t get the Magic into the finals, was married Saturday at the Royal Poinciana Chapel in Palm Beach.

Redick and his bride (TC Palm photo)

Among the 200 guests were Redick’s old Duke University coach, Mike Krzyzewski, and new Philadelphia 76ers head coach Doug Collins.

“They kept it small,” said Dr. Robert Norris, who performed the ceremony. He also officiated the wedding of another Magic star, Vince Carter, four years ago. “I didn’t see any of the Magic players. But it was a beautiful, traditional ceremony. This was JJ’s time to be a groom, not a basketball player.”

The Redicks and guests celebrated with a banquet at the Chesterfield.

Kilgore is a graduate from Martin County High School. She met Redick while attending the University of Central Florida.

Fox and Green

Big screen hottie Megan Fox‘ wedding last week in Hawaii was so secret that the former St. Lucie West Centennial High School cheerleader didn’t even invite her own mother!

As a matter of fact, Vero Beach property manager Darlene Tonachio didn’t seem to know for sure today whether her daughter, the former star of Transformers franchise, indeed exchanged vows with her longtime boyfriend, Beverly Hills, 90210 star Brian Austin Green.

“If there was a wedding,” Tonachio said, “I wasn’t there!

“But that’s Megan, all right. She would have wanted something low-key and quiet. She’d sneak off somewhere and surprise everybody later. If it’s true they’re married, I’d be a happy mama.”

News reports claim that Fox, 24, and Green, 36, tied the knot before half a dozen friends at the Four Seasons resort Thursday, on the big island of Hawaii.

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The lovebirds (Courtesy contactmusic.com)

Phil Collen, lead guitarist for the heavy metal band Def Leppard, is set to tie the knot next month in a small wedding at the Ritz-Carlton in Manalapan.

Collen, 52, is scheduled to marry movie costume-designer Helen Simmons, 42, before about 100 guests July 16, according to his publicist.

All members of the five-man band, except for lead singer Joe Elliott, are scheduled to attend. Also expected are several music biz heavy hitters, including Sex Pistols drummer Paul Cook.

“I’m sure there’s going to be a jam session at this wedding,” said Michelle Gutenstein Hinz, Collen’s publicist.

Something else to expect: veggies! Yep, Collen has been a PeTA-supporting vegan for more than 20 years.

Collen, who lives near Los Angeles, met Simmons two years ago as the band that hatched such classics as Pour Some Sugar on Me, Rock of Ages and Photograph toured the United States. Then, last July on a vacation, Collen proposed on the beach at the Manalapan Ritz.

“That’s why they wanted to go back to that particular hotel,” Gutenstein Hinz said.

– Def Leppard is in Time magazine’s Top 10 rock’n'roll hall of fame snubs

Von Falkenberg

Only in Palm Beach, kids!

The battle for the millions of a dead Standard Oil heiress is heating up in a local court as the woman’s brother filed to have  her death bed wedding and last minute will annulled.

Palm Beach socialite Anne Terry Pierce McBride died of breast cancer at 61, five years ago this month. She left a fortune of nearly $50 million to her third husband, whom she remarried at Hospice of Pam Beach County hours before she passed away.

And the hubby, 68-year-old Wolfgang Von Falkenberg, was named main beneficiary in a will that McBride signed four days before her death. Her previous will, according to court records, bequeathed some of her estate to seven charities centered on children, pets, veterans and battered women.

The funny thing is: the latest testament named McBride’s husband — even though her latest wedding to Von Falkenberg occurred two days after the will was signed!

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Hutcherson: "I'm lovingly aggressive (with gays) the same I'd be for a murderer."

More fodder for those who think gay superstar Elton John should have been nowhere near Conservative radio talker Rush Limbaugh’s recent Palm Beach wedding, instead of serenading the newlyweds.

The preacher who signed Limbaugh’s and wife Kathryn Rogers‘ marriage license, Washington State-based mega-church boss Ken Hutcherson, is an internationally known critic of the gay rights who believes that many of the world’s ills stem from homosexuality.

Limbaugh bragged about his fourth wedding as he returned to his show today, calling the nuptials a perfect moment in the best weekend of his life. Oh yes, he also blasted liberals for the criticism heaped upon Elton John since the June 5 wedding at The Breakers.

John has been called every ugly name in the book for taking $1 million of Limbaugh’s hard-earned cash to perform for 400 guests, including: former White House eminence grise Karl Rove, former presidential hopeful and Law & Order star Fred Thompson, former Kansas City Royals slugger George Brett, Fox News talker Sean Hannity, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, New England Patriots owner Bob Kraft, and golfer Tom Watson, among others.

Limbaugh proudly said on the air that he had a black minister, former Dallas Cowboys linebacker Hutcherson, officiate and a gay rock star, John, entertain. At one point in the ceremony, Rush said, Hutcherson joked he was the third token at the altar, the other two being the wedding rings.

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Rush and Kathryn (Click on the photo for more)

Nothing’s official until the ink is dry. In the case of Palm Beach radio talker Rush Limbaugh, who returns to his show today after a week-long honeymoon, it is! Page2Live has obtained El Rushbo’s marriage license. The Palm Beach County document shows, among other things, that the bride, 33-year-old Kathryn Rogers, is planning to keep her maiden name and that Conservative columnist David Limbaugh, Rush’s brother, stood as a witness of the union. The lovebirds were married June 5 at The Breakers in Palm Beach. Click here, or on the document below for a clearer version:

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– Click here for Page2Live’s exclusive coverage of the rehearsal dinner

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– Rush’s wedding, the day after

Elton John (Click on Elton for more about the bride and groom)

. . . Singer Elton John has been catching serious flak for agreeing to perform at conservative radio talker Rush Limbaugh’s wedding Saturday night in Palm Beach. Page2Live’s scoop that the queen of rock’n'roll serenaded occasional gay-basher Limbaugh and his fourth bride, Kathryn Rogers, in front of a plethora of family values folks, sent the gay and liberal blogosphere into a frenzy. John has been showered with invectives such as “sell out” and “whore,” and quips like: Queen Elizabeth must’ve drop the sword on his head when she knighted Sir Elton?” Well, sources at the hotel told me ol’ Rush dug into his pockets — How does $1 million sound? — because his new wife (and the planner of this wedding) wanted John.  The rocker received a standing ovation when he told the wedding party he was there to “tear down walls and build bridges” . . .

. . . There’s little doubt Elton John was calling the shots. The singer of I’m Still Standing and Crocodile Rock, famous for his diva demands, had liquor and food services at the tables inside the breathtaking Ponce de Leon ballroom at The Breakers held up for the 90 minutes he spent on stage. He didn’t want the clinking of crystal glasses and champagne to disrupt his performance . . .

. . . The last time the singer performed a private gig, in 2008, was for a bunch of shady Russian oligarchs in Moscow. His payday then was $3 million. Limbaugh got a steep discount, but word at The Breakers is that the whole wedding weekend set Limbaugh back $4 million, mostly for rooms, food, drink, parties, guest transportation, clothes, planning, security and activities like golf. So, that’s what they call economic stimulus . . .

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