r Britney Spears and Sam Asghari are married.
The couple officially tied the knot in a ceremony at the singer’s mansion in Thousand Oaks, California, on Thursday evening (Friday afternoon AEST), while surrounded by 60 of their closest friends and family.
According to People, the bride walked down the aisle to Elvis Presley’s hit ballad ‘Can’t Help Falling in Love’ while famous faces, such as Madonna, Drew Barrymore, Paris Hilton and her mother, Kathy Hilton, watched on.
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Photos released exclusively to Vogue, show the happy bride and groom cosying up for the camera and give a glimpse into the couple’s big day – including a carriage pulled by white horses outside their Los Angeles home.
The five shots released to the fashion magazine include a look at the bride’s sleek, off-the-shoulder custom Versace gown, complete with thigh-high split and paired with a classic white veil featuring satin edging. The groom also donned Versace for the big day.
The images were snapped by Kevin Ostajewski, who recently photographed Paris Hilton’s nuptials.
It’s reported the couple left the wedding in a car, which was surrounded by their guests holding sparklers, before the revellers returned to the party inside after the bride and groom drove off.
People who did not make the guest list are Spears’ parents Jamie and Lynne and her sister, Jamie Lynn, as they grew estranged in the lead-up to her conservatorship battle.
But Spears was not going to let family drama ruin her big day – a day she has been planning since she got engaged last September.
“Britney started planning and dreaming about her wedding shortly after she got engaged in November,” a source told the magazine. “It’s a huge deal to her that she is finally able to get married. She wants it to be perfect.”
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The singer also knew from the start that she wanted to wear Versace on her big day. In November, Spears announced that she had chosen her longtime friend and designer Donatella Versace to make her wedding dress.
“Donatella Versace is making my dress as we speak,” she wrote on Instagram at the time.
According to E! News, Spears wore an “off-the-shoulder cap sleeve and a deep V-shaped slit in the leg”.
Her dream day was almost ruined after her first ex-husband, Jason Alexander dramatically crashed the wedding preparations.
Armed with a mobile phone, he invited himself onto Spears’ property before entering her home and livestreaming his actions the entire time.
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“Where’s Britney? I’m Jason Alexander, her first husband,” he told security as ventured insidde the wedding tent. “I’m here to crash the wedding, bro.”
After claiming Spears invited him to the wedding, he was then tackled by security before police officers showed up and took him away.
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Spears was also married to her backup dancer Kevin Federline in 2004. That marriage ended in divorce in 2007, but the couple welcomed two children during their union: Sean, 16, and Jayden, 15.
Both of her children were sadly absent from the ceremony with Federline’s lawyer Mark Vincent Kaplan telling TMZ: “Although the boys will not be in attendance, Kevin and the boys are happy for Britney and wish her and Sam all the best going forward.”
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