Journey's Neal Schon and ex-Real Housewives of D.C. star Michaele Salahi tied the knot Sunday at San Francisco, California's Palace of Fine Arts in a lavish ceremony that was broadcast on pay-per-view.
The San Francisco Gate reports that the nuptials, dubbed Neal & Michaele: A Winter Wonderland Wedding and Music Event, featured 356 guests and a wedding party of 35, including 18 bridesmaids, 14 groomsmen, and some of Schon's five children from four previous marriages. Among the attendees: Sammy Hagar, Journey singer Arnel Pineda, Journey keyboard player Jonathan Cain, Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead, and R&B singer Brian McKnight. Hagar told the Gate that the event, "amazing, beautiful" and "over-the-top," adding, "The ceremony was unbelievable."
The event took place in a white tent, followed by a reception in a larger white tent hung with 36 crystal chandeliers. Guests were seated at wooden tables painted silver, with votive candles lighting the space, and vases of white roses and white long-stemmed tulips as decoration. A brief Journey concert was part of the entertainment.
A portion of the proceeds from the pay per view event, which cost $14.95, are going to the victims of Typhoon Haiyan, which devastated the Philippines in November. Pineda, who's Filipino, and Schon have traveled the Philippines in recent weeks to pitch in and help the victims, and Journey has also pledged $350,000 to the relief effort.
Schon had been engaged to Salahi since October 2012, when he proposed to her on stage during a Journey concert in Baltimore. The engagement came two months after Michaele's divorce from Tareq Salahi was finalized. Before their marriage hit the rocks, the Salahis were best known for crashing a White House state dinner in 2009.
