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Cruises for the Maldives
Actor Tom Cruise and his third wife, Katie Holmes, were honeymooning in the Maldives last Monday, November 20 after getting married in a lavish ceremony in a castle in Italy over the weekend.
According to guests, the bride and groom and their seven-month-old baby wore Armani for the ceremony, which began with the former Top Gun star walking down a stone ramp lined with flag-bearers wearing medieval costumes. Holmes, bearing a bouquet of white lilies, was escorted by her father.
The couple exchanged vows in a former stable in a Scientology rite not legally recognised in Italy but witnessed by 150 friends and family. At the reception afterwards,
in the fifteenth century Odescalchi castle near Rome, they were serenaded by Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli and thousands of red rose petals cascaded down on them as they cut a wedding cake flown in from the US.
Guests included Brooke Shields, Richard Gere, Jennifer Lopez, Jim Carrey and Victoria Beckham and the wedding ended with a fireworks display. The couple's publicist said afterwards that they had already "legalised" their marriage in Los Angeles.
Fans and residents of the lakeside town of Bracciano, where the event was held, had waited in vain to see a glimpse of the couple. The town's mayor said she was "disappointed" that after the inconveniences suffered by townspeople, the two had not thought to make a personal appearance before wellwishers. — Dawn/The Guardian news service
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