Finally married … Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt had the wedding ceremony in France. Source: Getty Images
HOLLYWOOD’S hottest couple have made it official, with Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt tying the knot in an intimate ceremony at their home in France over the weekend.
A spokesman for Jolie, 39, and Pitt, 50, confirmed the film megastars wed in an intimate ceremony attended by just 22 loved ones.
The photogenic pair exchanged vows in a small chapel in the French hamlet of Correns, at Chateau Miraval — a sprawling 1000-acre estate where the famous family has lived since 2008.
Loved up … Hollywood stars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have wed in a private ceremony in France. Picture: Getty Images Source: Getty Images
According to a source, Jolie wore a small gold locket to the ceremony that once belonged to her late mother Marcheline Bertrand.
“It was very much a family affair,” the spokeswoman said in a statement.
The actress also “had a veil,” and when “Brad lifted it [he] gasped because she looked so stunning,” the source told E! News.
The couple’s six children took part in the wedding. Jolie walked the aisle with her eldest sons Maddox and Pax. Zahara and Vivienne threw flower petals. Shiloh and Knox served as ring bearers, the spokesman says.
Hitched … Brad Pitt wearing his wedding ring in Dorset, southern England, on Thursday. Picture: AFP Source: AFP
Jolie, Pitt and their children arrived on a private jet in Nice on Friday before being driven 90 minutes to their estate, according to the Nice-Matin newspaper.
Among the guests were Pitt’s parents Bill and Jane Pitt, his brother Doug, sister Julie and their kids, according to E! News.
On Thursday, Pitt was photographed wearing a gold band on his left ring finger during an event in Britain to promote his new World War II film Fury, in which he plays a battle-hardened army sergeant.
In advance of the non-denominational civil ceremony, Pitt and Jolie obtained a marriage license from a local California judge. The judge also conducted the ceremony in France.
Secret wedding … Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s wedding location in France. Picture: Splash News Source: Splash News Australia
California marriage law doesn’t require the ceremony to take place in the state — only that the license is returned with signatures from the couple, officiant and a witness.
Jolie and Pitt’s wedding caps years of rampant speculation on when the couple would officially tie the knot.
Pitt once said that he didn’t want to marry until gay marriage was legal, but in recent years, both said they intended to. They were engaged in early 2012 after some seven years together.
This is the second marriage for Pitt, who wed Jennifer Aniston in 2000. They divorced in 2005.
Jolie was previously married to British actor Jonny Lee Miller for three years in the late ’90s and to Billy Bob Thornton for three years before divorcing in 2003.
Picturesque setting … Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s wedding location in France. Picture: Splash News Source: Splash News Australia
The couple fell in love on the set of 2005 action film Mr & Mrs Smith — spawning the media phenomenon of “Brangelina” that has dominated celebrity journalism and the tabloids ever since.
Earlier this year, Jolie had told People that she and Pitt were “not really in a rush” to get married, adding: “We’re just waiting for it to be the right time with the kids, with work, when it feels right.”
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s wedding location in France. Source: Splash News Australia
The couple fell in love on the set of 2005 action film Mr & Mrs Smith — spawning the media phenomenon of “Brangelina” that has dominated celebrity journalism and the tabloids ever since.
Earlier this year, Jolie had told People that she and Pitt were “not really in a rush” to get married, adding: “We’re just waiting for it to be the right time with the kids, with work, when it feels right.”
Jolie — twice married and divorced before her wedding to the 50-year-old Pitt — took home an Oscar for best supporting actor for her portrayal of a rebellious woman in a mental institution in 1999’s Girl, Interrupted.
Fell in love in 2004 … Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in 2011. Source: Getty Images
She has since played everything from a fairytale villain (Maleficent) to a sexy video game heroine (Lara Croft: Tomb Raider) to the widow of assassinated American journalist Daniel Pearl (A Mighty Heart).
Pitt got his big break more than 20 years ago with a much-talked-about shirtless role in the hit movie Thelma and Louise — as the two-bit thief who seduces Geena Davis.
Since then he has also built a resume of varied film roles, starring alongside some of the industry’s other brightest stars: with Tom Cruise in Interview with the Vampire, with Anthony
Hollywood’s perfect couple … Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt arrive at the premiere of Salt. Source: AP
Hopkins in Legends of the Fall and with George Clooney in Ocean’s Eleven.
He has received three Oscar nominations for his acting — in 1996 for Twelve Monkeys, in 2009 for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and in 2012 forMoneyball.
This year, Pitt took home an Academy Award as one of the producers of best picture12 Years a Slave.
Jolie once delighted gossip columnists by declarations of bisexuality and quirky behaviour such as wearing a vial of Thornton’s blood around her neck during their 2000-2003 marriage.
Engaged in 2012 … Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt at the The Tree Of Life premiere, 2011. Source: Getty Images
The red carpet darling is now better known for her humanitarian work than for her tabloid-ready comments.
Jolie has long served as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
More recently, she has been a vocal advocate for victims of sexual violence in war zones, co-hosting a global summit on conflict rape in June in London.
Of her life with Pitt and children, Jolie told People in May: “We’ve been through so much, we’ve gotten a lot closer, which I think naturally happens with raising a family together.”
“You have this person you live with who really knows you, and you know them so well. You’re not lovers or boyfriend and girlfriend as much as you are a family,” she added.
Originally the pair said they would not marry until gay marriage was law throughout the US. Source: Getty Images
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