{"id":16525,"date":"2025-10-14T06:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T11:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=16525"},"modified":"2025-10-14T06:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T11:52:11","slug":"gene-simmons-officiates-wedding-of-charlie-benante-and-carla-harvey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=16525","title":{"rendered":"Gene Simmons officiates wedding of Charlie Benante and Carla Harvey"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SOURCE: www.nme.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

KISS<\/a>\u2018 Gene Simmons<\/a> has officiated the wedding of Anthrax<\/a> drummer Charlie Benante and Butcher Babies singer Carla Harvey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Benante and Harvey announced they were engaged last year<\/a> after several years of dating, when Benante proposed during a U2<\/a> show at The Sphere in Las Vegas<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, the pair have officially tied the knot at the Secret Garden in Las Vegas \u2013 with KISS bassist and singer Simmons as their officiator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The wedding was reportedly attended by more than 200 guests, with members of Pantera, M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce, Dream Theatre and Nickelback spotted at the wedding (via Blabbermouth<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former KISS guitarist Bruce Kulick was also in attendance,\u00a0writing on Facebook<\/a>: \u201cA fun rockin\u2019 time was had by all last night at Charlie and Carla Benante\u2019s beautiful Wedding. Gene officiated, Elvis appeared, Las Vegas Show girls entertained. There was great music, delicious food, an elaborate drone show in the sky above while everyone danced. Thank you Charlie and Carla for an amazing evening in Las Vegas\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SOURCE: www.nme.com KISS\u2018 Gene Simmons has officiated the wedding of Anthrax drummer Charlie Benante and Butcher Babies singer Carla Harvey. Benante and Harvey announced they were engaged last year after several years of dating, when Benante proposed during a U2 show at The Sphere in Las Vegas. Now, the pair have officially tied the knot at the Secret Garden in Las Vegas \u2013 with KISS… Read More »Gene Simmons officiates wedding of Charlie Benante and Carla Harvey<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16527,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16525\/revisions\/16527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}