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Tom & Katie's Aisle Destination?
Now, that's amore.
Whether or not this is in fact the locale of the wedding of the year (sorry, Brangelina, you had your chance), an Italian newspaper has reported that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are planning to tie the knot at a medieval castle on the shores of Lake Bracciano, located to the northwest of Rome.
According to Il Messaggero, central Italy's most popular paper, the actors are going to kick off the festivities with a pre-party Nov. 16, followed by a Catholic vow swap Nov. 17 and then a Nov. 18 ceremony presided over by the Church of Scientology. The Castello Odescalchi is said to be able to hold 1,400 guests.
Cruise and Holmes announced last month that they would make it official on Nov. 18 (so far, it all adds up), seven months after the birth of their daughter Suri. Georgio Armani is designing Holmes' $2 million gown, with one of his minions probably sewing intricate-yet-tasteful beading along the hem as we speak.
But while Il Messaggero claims to have cracked TomKat's itinerary, after celeb-favorite spots such as Lake Como were dismissed from contention, Reuters reported Tuesday that a receptionist from Castello Odescalchi denied that any such event was booked there.
Way to throw 'em off the scent.
"The only thing we have received in the past days is a request to clear the square in front of the castle," Bracciano Mayor Patrizia Riccioni playfully told Associated Press Television News on Friday. "It is a hint, not evidence."
That hint, coupled with an electrician telling an Italian TV news crew Thursday that he was doing wedding prep work at the castle, does start making you wonder.
Actually, the most notable item to be plucked from all this news might be the revelation that Cruise and Holmes are going to have dual ceremonies. While Holmes was brought up Catholic, Cruise said earlier this year that the Dawson's Creek star had taken up Scientology, and that their child would not be baptized.
"You can be Catholic and be a Scientologist. You can be Jewish and be a Scientologist," Cruise told Diane Sawyer in April. "But we're just Scientologists."
But when in Rome...
It will be interesting to see what the Roman Catholic Church has to say about the twice-divorced Cruise engaging in a Catholic wedding. The BBC reported around the time of Nicole Kidman's nuptials to Keith Urban that, since the Church of Scientology presided over her wedding to Cruise, Catholic officials consider that union null and void—leaving Kidman with a clean slate.
Actually, the priest who presides over the area surrounding Lake Bracciano said Thursday that his parish would not, in fact, marry the couple and the mayor said that she can't perform the ceremony, either, until they fill out the proper paperwork.
"I don't think it will be legal," Riccioni said. "On an Italian level, there are papers and documents that we certainly don't have [for a wedding]."
"Cruise is divorced," Monsignor Nicola Fiorentini told the Italian press. "Even if the actor were not divorced, another fundamental requirement to validate the rite would be missing: the authorization of the parish."
Cruise was also married to Mimi Rogers from May 1987 to February 1990. He popped the question to Holmes in June 2005 atop the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
(Originally published Nov. 8, 2006 at 4:53 p.m. PT)
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