J-Lo gets married again and Celine Dion grabs a Strip vacation

Monday, Oct. 13, 2008 | 5:08 p.m.

Actress-singer Jennifer Lopez brought singer husband Marc Anthony to Vegas to celebrate his 40th birthday -- and they wound up renewing their marriage vows in a 3:15 a.m. exchange of vows in their penthouse suite at Caesars Palace. Luxe Life broke that story less than five hours after the secret ceremony yesterday -- CLICK HERE . They’d partied at the Pure nightclub for three hours while waiting to find a minister to perform the service!

J-Lo and Marc’s romantic weekend -- sans their 8-month-old fraternal twins, Max and Emee -- began with a visit to Mindfreak magician Criss Angel’s new Cirque du Soleil Believe show at the Luxor. Backstage afterward in his dressing room they told Criss: “It was a beautiful emotional magical journey and we’re definitely coming back to see it again.” Their friend, New York Mets superstar Carlos Beltran, who later became one of their marriage renewal witnesses, was with them -- and Criss took them all off for celebration Cristal champagne at the LAX nightclub, where they danced cheek to cheek to the sounds of DJ Hollywood. Criss also entertained them in the nightclub’s exclusive hidden-away Noir bar. The night was still young so J-Lo and Marc, along with her mom by this time, who would become another marriage renewal witness later, turned up at the Bank nightclub in the Bellagio and were so hungry they ordered taste treats from the adjoining FIX restaurant. For the record, J-Lo stuck to water and Marc had a single Coors Lite beer.

Next night, J-Lo and Marc, her family and Carlos Beltran, all piled into the Vegas Pussycat Dolls lounge at Caesars Palace, and Marc even danced along to the Pussycat Dolls performance. They then moved over at midnight to the Pure nightclub main stage beds -- and the hunt began for a minister to perform the marriage renewal ceremony. By 3 a.m. they’d rounded up the Rev. Steven Smith and they all went upstairs to their new Forum Tower suite at Caesars for the ceremony! Incidentally, they were the first guests to even stay in the new super-suite! Congratulations to the newly-weds – again!

Superstar singer Celine Dion took a few days' break from the North American leg of her current world tour that will end in February. She decided “there’s no place like home” – and returned here to her Lake Las Vegas estate. The first stop of her nights out on the town was at the Luxor to see the new Criss Angel Believe show. As Luxe Life reported, Celine, manager husband Rene Angelil and their 7-year-old son, Rene Charles, went backstage and met the rock-illusionist, who presented the youngster with a set of his children’s edition of Mindfreak DVDs. Said Celine: “Between his magic, the amazing dancers, the great lighting and creativity, the show is very entertaining.”

Two nights later it was Bette Midler’s second night of her most recent return to the Colosseum at Caesars Palace -- Celine’s other "home," where she starred nightly for five years. Celine and Rene sat near legendary music industry executive Clive Davis and singer-composer John Prine who wrote "Hello In There," which Bette features in the show. Then they all went backstage to Celine’s former dressing room that Bette re-designed for her run. Among the celebrity guests attending Bette’s third return show were Celine’s stage director, Franco Dragone, Celine’s songwriter Linda Perry, who has also written for Pink, Gwen Stefani and Christina Aguilera, Sen. Harry Reid in from Washington D.C. and producer-writer-director Nora Ephron of You’ve Got Mail, When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, and My Blue Heaven, among many others.