Milestones, Jul. 14, 1975

Married. Cher Bono, 29, TV singer (TIME, March 17); and Gregg Allman, 27, lead singer-organist with the Allman Brothers rock band; he for the third time, she for the second; three days after divorcing her former TV partner, Sonny Bono; in Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. Wearing an ice blue satin gown, teetotaler Cher downed a Coca-Cola toast to her new husband. The groom's down-home grandmother, Myrtle Allman, 74, sounded pleased—more or less. "I'm sure I'll love her," she said, then added that it would be nice if Cher "started wearing some more clothes."...

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