After 28 years together, KISS bassist, Gene Simmons, married his girlfriend Shannon Tweed at the Beverly Hills Hotel on Saturday, People reports.  The couple exchanged vows that they wrote themselves in front of 400 guests, which included Hugh Hefner and Bill Maher.  Their wedding will appear in  the reality show Gene Simmons Family Jewels on Oct. 18.

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After sharing 28 years in a relationship together and two children with girlfriend Shannon Tweed, Gene Simmons finally mustered up the courage to get down on one knee. In Tuesday night’s finale of A&E’s reality show Gene Simmons Family Jewels, Simmons told Tweed, “You’re the only friend I’ve got. You’re the only one I love … and you’re the only one I ever will love” before proposing. An insider recently revealed to People that the proposal scene was shot “several months ago” and that the couple’s relationship has been on the rocks ever since. The couple once described themselves as “happily unmarried” and we’re waiting to find out if there will be an “I do” to seal the deal.

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