It’s official! Actor George Clooney has tied the knot with human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin in the north-eastern Italian city of Venice. Dubbed as ‘The Floating City,’ Venice is analogous with Clooney’s relationship with Alamuddin, where the two were seen afloat on a taxiboat, rightly named ‘Amore’. It has been smooth sailing for the couple ever since they started dating last year.
Clooney caused media frenzy earlier this month when he was quoted as saying at an event in Tuscany that he and his bride-to-be had met in Italy and would marry in Venice. The actor has been a regular attendant at the Venice Film Festival and owns a villa by Lake Como.
Their wedding ceremony was expected to be held on Monday at Venice’s town hall, the 14th-century Ca’ Farsetti palace, with the Italian media reporting that the former mayor of Rome, Walter Veltroni, would be officiating the ceremony.
Several notable members of the Hollywood film fraternity flew into the Italian city for the four-day wedding extravaganza. Those spotted at the wedding included former supermodel Cindy Crawford, Bourne trilogy star Matt Damon, Bill Murray and star couple of Emily Blunt and John Krasinski.
The event began with an intimate dinner hosted by Clooney at the exclusive, five-star Cipriani Hotel on the island of Giudecca on Friday night, reported the Daily Mail. At the wedding, guests feasted on “lobster, lemon risotto, and fried polenta with mushrooms, and later danced to hits from bands like Blondie, Jackson 5, Amy Winehouse, and Daft Punk,” according to the Mirror. Clooney’s business partner and good friend Rande Gerber served as his best man at the wedding.
On the day after the wedding, Alamuddin stunned in Couture Giambattista Valli featuring purple and red floral embellishments. Diverging from conventional wedding apparel, the dress had a low hemline, but included white lace, which maintained the bridal vibe. It has been reported that the couple has signed a multi-million pound deal with Vogue magazine for their wedding pictures, proceeds of which will be donated to a charity organisation.
Clooney, who vowed never to remarry after his 1993 divorce from actor Talia Balsam, posted a legal notice of their plans to wed at a West London town hall in August, drawing a crowd of fans. The actor has been notorious for having a string of high-profile affairs with Hollywood beauties, such as Elisabetta Canalis, Renee Zellweger, Krista Allen, Kelly Preston and more recently, Stacy Keibler.
Alamuddin is a well-reputed human rights lawyer, who has previously represented former Ukranian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko at the European Court of Human Rights, and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in his extradition proceedings.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 30th, 2014.
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