Joe Holleman
Political correspondent/columnist
Former Cardinal player, (and now nonstop announcer) Jim Edmonds stepped up to the “I-promise-theeâ€Â plate and got married on Sunday.
Edmonds and Realtor Kortnie O’Connor exchanged vows at a destination wedding in front of 32 guests at a 19th-century villa in Lake Como, Italy, .
The couple announced their relationship in 2020 and were engaged in July 2021.
“The best part of the wedding is I now get to spend the rest of my life with Kortnie,†People quotes Edmonds as saying. “For the first time in my life, I finally understand true happiness.â€
For Edmonds, 52, this was his fourth trip to the altar. His third wife, Meghan King, is an STL native who had a star stint on “Real Housewives of Orange County.†She and Edmonds were married in 2014 and split up five years later amidst heavy tattle-sheet publicity.
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Edmonds, 50, gave us a tour of his new digs and talked about trying to create a home that brings together his seven children from three marriages.Â
