JOURNEY's Neal Schon To Wed Michaele Salahi On Pay-Per-View
December 6, 2013, 10 years ago
According to SFGate, JOURNEY guitarist and co-founder Neal Schon will wed Real Housewives of D.C. star Michaele Salahi in a star-studded wedding spectacular on Dec. 15 in San Francisco that will include rock singer Sammy Hagar among the groomsmen. The event is believed to be a series of firsts — the first wedding allowed at the Palace of Fine Arts, the first-ever celebrity pay-per-view wedding, and the first pay-per-view wedding to double as a concert and fundraiser for typhoon relief efforts in the Philippines.
The couple said they had received various offers from TV networks to broadcast the wedding or film a reality show based on their new life together. Instead of handing the reins to someone else, they decided to try a pay-per-view event to retain control over what is presented to viewers.
“It’s an honor to be approached, that people want to hear about your life and want to be a part of it,” Salahi said in a phone interview from New York, where she and Schon were traveling this week. “And then it came to Neal: This will be unedited, the beauty of the day. You can see it live.”
Said Schon, “If anyone is going to film it and see it, I want it to be really real. We have nothing to hide, and a lot of beauty to show.”
