Madonna Maid Of Honour
Mum-to-be Gwyneth Paltrow is to invite Madonna to be her maid of honour when she weds rocker Chris Martin.
The Oscar-winning beauty, who is expecting her first child in the summer, is planning a low-key ceremony – which could take place in days.
Gwyneth will ask the singer to perform the same duty she did for Madonna‘s wedding to movie director Guy Ritchie in Scotland three years ago.
Bridesmaids are likely to include fashion designer Stella McCartney and Gwynnie’s oldest friend, Julia Cuddihy.
Director Steven Spielberg, who has known Gwyneth, 31, since she was a child and is her godfather, will give the bride away.
Coldplay frontman Chris, 26, will be inviting comedian Simon Pegg, star of the hit Channel 4 sitcom Spaced, and bandmates Guy Berryman, Jon Buckland and Will Champion to the ceremony.
The couple, who have been dating for 14 months, are determined to tie the knot away from the cameras after being impressed by how Madonna kept her nuptials at Skibo Castle under wraps.
“They will do it in their own time and on their own terms,” said an aide yesterday. “This is not going to be a circus.”
The couple filled in a £48 marriage licence application at the Santa Barbara county clerk’s office in California on Friday. It allows the couple to be married by a judge within the next 90 days – but doesn’t require them to disclose the marriage date.
They were in and out of the office in just seven minutes before heading for the airport to board a private jet back to Los Angeles.
Gwyneth has worn an engagement ring and a wedding band over the last few weeks, fuelling speculation the couple had already wed. But she has said the bands are only “friendship rings” and Chris had yet to propose.
Although Gwyneth’s actress mother Blythe Danner and brother Jake are staying with the couple in LA, Chris’s parents were still at home at their 19th Century mansion in Whitestone, near Exeter, Devon, yesterday.
But Madonna and her husband Guy have been in California in recent days.
Chris has also just begun a “couple of weeks” holiday from Coldplay – leaving enough time for the couple to jet off on honeymoon if they do marry soon.
To add to the mystery, a function room was believed to have been booked by one of Gwyneth’s aides at New York’s trendy 60 Thompson Hotel last night. And Coldplay’s manager Estelle Wilkinson is currently in the city after jetting there on business.
Gwyneth and Chris have been reluctant to discuss their relationship in public. They first met at a Coldplay concert in the summer of last year and started dating in November.
On Thursday night, Gwyneth appeared on the Jay Leno chat show in LA – to make her first public comment since announcing she was three months pregnant earlier this week. “I just pinch my stomach for luck,” she said.
Before meeting Chris, Gwyneth – who has starred in films like Sliding Doors and Shakespeare In Love – was engaged to Brad Pitt. She was also romantically linked to another Hollywood hunk, Ben Affleck.
Article by Ben Todd
Source: Sunday Mirror