Nine days after finalizing his divorce from second wife Anita Thomas Collen, Def Leppard's lead guitarist Phil Collen has walked down the aisle with costume designer Helen L. Simmons. The two wed in a sunset ceremony on the beach at Florida's Ritz-Carlton, Palm Beach resort on Friday, July 16, People reported.
"We've been looking for each other our entire lifetime. To say we're ecstatic this day has finally come is putting it mildly. It could only be us for each other," Collen told the site. On their environmentally-friendly bash, the star claimed, "We didn't intentionally start out trying to have green wedding. But since it's a natural part of our lifestyle to respect the environment, everything flowed pretty naturally."
Collen and Simmons were united in front of around 60 guests with a minister quoting poet Maya Angelou's "Touched By an Angel" and writings by the Dalai Lama. Collen donned J.
"We've been looking for each other our entire lifetime. To say we're ecstatic this day has finally come is putting it mildly. It could only be us for each other," Collen told the site. On their environmentally-friendly bash, the star claimed, "We didn't intentionally start out trying to have green wedding. But since it's a natural part of our lifestyle to respect the environment, everything flowed pretty naturally."
Collen and Simmons were united in front of around 60 guests with a minister quoting poet Maya Angelou's "Touched By an Angel" and writings by the Dalai Lama. Collen donned J.
- 7/19/2010
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Love Bites? Well, not for Def Leppard lead guitarist Phil Collen. The British rocker married costume designer Helen L. Simmons on the beach at Florida's Ritz-Carlton, Palm Beach resort in a sunset ceremony Friday. "We've been looking for each other our entire lifetime," Collen tells People. "To say we're ecstatic this day has finally come is putting it mildly. It could only be us for each other." Guests included Collen's Def Leppard bandmates Rick Savage and Vivian Campbell, as well as Muay Thai champion and trainer Jean Carrillo, who served as best man. The couple, who met on the band's 2008 Sparkle Lounge tour,...
- 7/17/2010
- by Marisa Laudadio
- PEOPLE.com
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