Bill Gates attends Swedish nuptials of pal Charles Simonyi |
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What do you do after developing Microsoft Word, traveling to outer space and living the bachelor lifestyle for 60 years? If you are Charles Simonyi, you get married.
The Medina billionaire wed 28-year-old Swedish socialite Lisa Persdotter in a ceremony in Gothenberg, Sweden this past weekend. Among the guests: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Rolling Stones front man Mick Jagger. (Sounds like quite the party.)
The Local provides some details on the pre-festivities, noting that security was tight at the church where the couple were to be married. It also says that Gates served as an usher, perhaps a prerequisite given that Simonyi oversaw the development of some of Microsoft's most profitable products.
Simonyi and Persdotter got engaged in St. Tropez on 08/08/08, according to the PSBJ's Patti Payne.
Simonyi had been romantically connected to Martha Stewart for years, with Payne writing that the "domestic diva" could be "singing the blues" given Simonyi's new companion.
At the very least, maybe Martha could have provided some party-planning tips.
[Via Huffington Post]
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