Update, 9/18: As the wedding date draws closer (Clooney and Alamuddin are now expected to marry on September 27th), intimate details about the nuptials have emerged:
- Clooney confirmed the wedding would take place in Venice while accepting an award at an event it Tuscany; it was the couple's first public appearance. Clooney told the audience, "I would just like to say to my bride-to-be, Amal, that I love you very much, and I can't wait to be your husband."
- Rumor has it that the ceremony will be held at 11 am at the Aman Canal Grande Venice, with a rehearsal dinner the night before at the Belmond Hotel Cipriani.
- Only 60 guests will attend the event, which Alamuddin's family is paying for. Matt Damon and his wife Luciana and Cindy Crawford and her husband Rande Gerber will be in attendance. In addition to best man duties, Gerber is providing 50 cases of tequila. Alamuddin's little sister, Tala, is the maid of honor.
- The menu consists of both Italian and Lebanese options (nods to the event's location and Alamuddin's heritage, respectively), and Andrea Bocelli is scheduled to perform.
- And just in case you were wondering, Clooney's rep has confirmed that Alamuddin is notpregnant.
Update, 9/5: Amal Alamuddin may be following in Kate Middleton's footsteps and marrying in Alexander McQueen. The bride-to-be was spotted leaving the McQueen head offices prompting speculation that creative director Sarah Burton is designing her wedding gown. Clooney and Alamuddin are expected to tie the knot on September 20th.
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Update, 8/7: Clooney and Alamuddin have obtained their marriage license in London. It confirms that the couple will wed in Italy, with a possible ceremony in London at a later time. Meanwhile, Giorgio Armani's design team visited Clooney's Lake Como estate, reportedly to fit Clooney and the groomsen in tuxes for the wedding.
Update, 7/16: A surprising throwback photo of Clooney's bride-to-be was released today. Alamuddin graduated from Oxford Law in 2000, wearing a powdered wig for her class portraits. George is marrying beauty and brains-but luckily she left the wig behind.
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Forget Kimye-with the wedding of George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin on the horizon, we can't stop talking about the marriage of Hollywood's most famous bachelor. See below for everything we know about the big day-and keep checking back for up-to-the-minute updates.
- 4/26: A source told People that Clooney and Alamuddin, a human rights lawyer, were engaged and that "[They] are trying to keep things very low-key but they also aren't really trying to hide this, it doesn't seem. I think it's like they want the people they love to know that this is real, that they plan on being together forever." Two days later, Alamuddin's law firm confirmed the couple's engagement and offered their congratulations. Clooney's mother told the Daily Mail, "You can say I'm extremely happy, Amal's a lovely girl. We weren't at all surprised when they told us they were engaged, and we couldn't be happier for them."
- 6/8: Since announcement of the engagement, the duo was rumored to be marrying at Downton Abbey, then later, planning a September wedding in Venice.
- 7/8: The couple's mothers, Nina Bruce Clooney and Baria Alamuddin, were spotted shopping, arm-in-arm, in Lake Como, Italy, near Clooney's villa. Both sets of parents have visited the estate since the engagement's announcement, most likley to partake in wedding planning.
- 7/9: Clooney penned a visceral attack of the Daily Mail in USA Today after the British newspaper wrote a story claiming his Alamuddin's mother disapproved of the couple's marriage on religious grounds. "The irresponsibility, in this day and age, to exploit religious differences where none exist, is at the very least negligent and more appropriately dangerous. We have family members all over the world, and the idea that someone would inflame any part of that world for the sole reason of selling papers should be criminal," he wrote. The Daily Mail has since removed their piece and apologized to Clooney: "We accept Mr Clooney's assurance that the story is inaccurate and we apologize to him, Miss Amal Alamuddin and her mother, Baria, for any distress caused."
- 7/11: Clooney responded to the Daily Mail's apology in USA Today, stating that he did not accept it. "...they've exposed themselves as the worst kind of tabloid. One that makes up its facts to the detriment of its readers and to all the publications that blindly reprint them."
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