'Desperate Housewife' weds
2007-07-07 18:57
Paris - "Desperate Housewives" actress Eva Longoria tied the knot on Saturday with basketball champion Tony Parker in Paris, but tight security and blackout screens prevented fans from even glimpsing their heroes.
The church ceremony, billed as the celebrity wedding of the year and leading the worldwide nuptial rush to cash in on the supposed good luck of the 7/7/7 date, came a day after the couple married in a civil ceremony here.
Parker and Longoria, who rose to global fame with her portrayal of a sexually voracious suburbanite, vowed lifelong fidelity and were then due to head off to host Hollywood friends in Vaux-le-Vicomte chateau just outside the capital.
Longoria, 32, and San Antonio Spurs star Parker, 25, exchanged wedding vows in Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois, a church long used by French kings which lies just across the road from the Louvre in central Paris.
But security barriers, police and large black screens kept back the hundreds of fans and let them get only a fleeting glimpse of the many celebrities arriving at the church in a fleet of red buses. The couple themselves entered the church unseen, by a back door.
Journalists gathered in the hot summer sunshine also got slim pickings, with security men holding up big black umbrellas to block pictures by photographers perched on balconies of nearby buildings.
Rights to the wedding photographs have been negotiated by OK! magazine for a reported fee of two million dollars.