Harry Sargeant III, middle, introduces then-Gov. Charlie Crist to King Abdullah of Jordan in 2007 (AP Photo)

Gulf Stream oilman Harry Sargeant III, who’s been called a war profiteer by a Congressional leader, is putting to good use the $200 million-plus that Pentagon officials now say they overpaid him during the Iraq War.

Sargeant, a former finance chairman for the Republican Party of Florida and a college friend of ex-Guv Charlie Crist, is throwing lavish parties in Palm Beach this weekend to celebrate the wedding of his son, 27-year-old Harry.

The younger Harry is marrying Port St. Lucie hottie Morgan Elam Saturday at The Breakers.

I’m told the elder Sargeant reserved about 60 rooms for friends and family through the weekend. In season, most rooms at the resort go for $400-plus.

With the $300-a-bottle banquet, weekend activities for all the guests and not just one, but two rehearsal dinners tonight, word is the elder Sargeant could spend upward of $1 million.

“We’re having about 280 guest at the wedding,” said the bride, 28, when reached at The Breakers today. She’s the daughter of Fort Pierce CPA James H. Elam.

“I’m wearing a Vera Wang dress. Everybody’s going to be in black and white. There’s a five-course meal after the ceremony.”

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WPTV-Channel 5 weatherman James Wieland said “I do” to Palm Beach Post advertising rep Jennifer Dalla Riva (above) at St. Ann Catholic Church Saturday in West Palm Beach.

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Many of the NBC affiliate’s personalities, including anchorman Jay Cashmere, meteorologists Steve Weagle and Glenn Glazer (below), as well as anchor/repoters Marci Gonzalez and Tania Rogers, were among the 170 well-wishers.

Unfortunately Wieland, 38, couldn’t order up a beautiful spring day for his big day as the wedding party ducked intermittent rain throughout the day, which ended with a dinner and dance at the Doubletree in Palm Beach Gardens. The cake? A four-tier rhinestone-covered number.

The bride, 39, wore a strapless, full-bottomed silk dress.

The lovebirds, who met at a party in 2008 and were engaged a year later, are headed to St. Lucia for their honeymoon.

Cashmere (left), Weagle, groom Wieland and Glazer carry bride Dalla Riva Saturday (Mike Jachles/Special to Page2Live)

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– WPTV weatherman James Wieland engaged

Richard and Lakeisha in 2009 (Fred Montana/Special to Page2Live)

Tennis champs Venus and Serena Williams have a new stepmom — and she’s barely older than the Palm Beach Gardens sisters are!

Their famous stage dad, Richard Williams, was quietly hitched two days before New Year’s Eve to a grocery store owner who is 37 years younger.

According to a marriage license in the Palm Beach County archives, the 69-year-old Richard Williams was legally wed for the second time Dec. 29 to a 32-year-old Broward native Lakeisha Graham.

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They were engaged for nearly two years before Richard marched into the county courthouse on PGA Boulevard to trade I dos with Graham, who bears a faint resemblance to hip-hop star Rihanna.

Page2Live broke the story of the May-December hookup in March 2009 when the lovebirds were on a shopping spree at Sports Authority in West Palm Beach and asked a paparazzi to snap their photo.

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At the time, Richard first called Graham his new wife then said the two were planning to be wed after the 2009 Ericsson Open. And he wouldn’t talk about Venus and Serena’s feeling about the age difference.

Richard Williams, who’s credited for shaping Venus, 30, and Serena, 29, into No. 1-rated players, was divorced from their mom, 58-year-old Oracene, in 2002 — after allegations of domestic violence surfaced.

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Eligible bachelor Joe Abruzzo, the Democratic state representative from Wellington, is eligible no more.

The Matt Lauer lookalike, 30, popped the question on one knee in New York City’s Central Park the other day, and sexy Good Samaritan emergency room nurse Brittany Johnston, 26, voted yay!

Abruzzo and his betrothed, Brittany Johnston

Abruzzo tells me it’ll be the first attempt at marital bliss for both.

“I was just waiting for the right person,” Abruzzo said today. “I’m extremely fortunate. I love Brittany more than anything and I’m excited to start a family here in Palm Beach County.”

Are the lovebirds politically compatible?

Johnston isn’t registered to vote in Florida just yet. But according to records, she voted in Ohio, where she attended school, as a member of the Natural Law Party. The little-known party advocates meditation in problem-solving, some that the Florida legislature could use.

Abruzzo first laid eyes on the Palm Beach Gardens hottie a year ago while waiting for a table of Rocco’s Tacos on Clematis in West Palm Beach.

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Palm Beach radio talker Rush Limbaugh swore off marriage after three ill-fated attempts at domestic bliss.

But that was before he met striking West Palm Beach resident Kathryn Rogers, a woman almost half his age and a direct descendant of founding father John Adams.

It was also before she nursed him through a heart attack and before she laid some balm on the conservative firebrand’s bruised ego when the NFL rejected him as a potential owner of the St. Louis Rams.

For once, El Rushbo is eating his words.

Limbaugh, 59, is set to marry Rogers, 33, next week in an intimate ceremony at his beachfront compound.

Limbaugh wouldn’t confirm any details but asked for privacy in an e-mail to Page Two.

“We try to live our lives as normal people,” Limbaugh wrote. “We do NOT seek media attention, we do not want it, especially for this. It is very special, obviously, and we just don’t want any media attention.”

Rogers, a VIP liaison for the last two Super Bowls in South Florida, has been sporting a blinding sparkler on her ring finger for more than a year now.

No word yet on the guest list, menu or dress code, but stay tuned.

The couple sent out invitations to family and friends in February. If you haven’t received yours, don’t bother crashing. Security will be tight.

Limbaugh and Rogers met in 2004 when she ran a golf tournament/fund-raiser for legendary golfer Gary Player’s charity. Limbaugh was a celebrity guest. At the time, Limbaugh was getting divorced from Marta Limbaugh, his third wife.

By the summer of 2007, the GOP’s favorite radio personality and Rogers, the daughter of one of Sen. John McCain’s classmates at the Naval Academy, were an item.

“I grew up so differently, traveling around the world, that I’m sometimes not able to relate to the average person my age,” the soft-spoken Rogers told me in 2008, when the two stepped out together publicly for the first time. “Rush has such amazing experience.”

Rogers has made her presence felt by Limbaugh’s side. Gifted with gentle, old-society manners, she has managed to humanize a man often considered by liberals to be a bad guy.

She also made him change some of his lifestyle, starting with his eating habits.

Last year she convinced the radio host, who by then had ballooned to 300 pounds, to go on a diet. By fall, he had shed 100 pounds.

Rogers, meanwhile, appears in several passages of the new Limbaugh biography, Zev Chafets’ Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One.

In one, Chafets describes Rogers as “a soft-spoken listener who, on the radio, shouts rude, sometimes vulgar personal insults at (Limbaugh’s) ideological enemies.”

Chafets did ask Limbaugh about marrying Rogers.

The response: “If Kathryn and I were to get married, I know they’d go after her. I’m always going to be a villain. . . But Kathryn, I don’t know how it would be for her, all the gossip and the nastiness. I worry about it.”