Eva leads 7/7/7 wedding march
2007-07-06 10:13
Paris - Desperate Housewives diva Eva Longoria marries NBA superstar Tony Parker in Paris on Saturday in the celebrity wedding of the year, leading the worldwide rush to catch the mystique of the 7/7/7 date.
Longoria, 32, and Parker, 25, will be married at a Paris church before the stretch limos and helicopters take the couple and their Hollywood friends to Vaux-le-Vicomte, a 17th-century chateau just outside the French capital.
A civil ceremony at which Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe will officiate will take place on Friday at municipal offices in the centre of the capital, a source said.
Longoria and Parker have kept their guest list secret, but media reports suggest that actors Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Jamie Foxx, singer Lionel Richie and Longoria's Desperate Housewives co-stars will be there.
The marriage will be held at the Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois church in central Paris.
More attention is likely to be focused on the party at Vaux-le-Vicomte, the lavish estate that inspired King Louis XIV's chateau at Versailles and hosted some of finest "fetes" of the 17th century.
Lucky number
Longoria and Parker have been in the posh French Riviera resort of St Tropez in the run-up to their wedding but they have not said where they will honeymoon and the entertainment media has said Longoria has to begin filming again next week.
Time magazine has branded 777 "the most popular wedding date ever" with couples drawn by the auspicious power of the number seven.
For Las Vegas gamblers, the triple seven is a lucky number on casino slot machines and the blackjack table.
For the religious, God needed seven days to create the World, the Jewish bride circles her groom seven times, and Muslim pilgrims go seven times around the sacred black Kabaa in Mecca.
Hindus recognise the seven chakras (spinning wheel sources of energy) of the body, while the Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Wonders of the World are a source of fascination across any religious divide.