Alicia Keys has wed Swizz Beatz, her rep confirms to UsMagazine.com.
The singer, 29, who is pregnant, and the producer, 31, exchanged vows in front of close family and friends in a private home on the Mediterranean Sea.
Their friend Dr. Deepak Chopra presided over the intimate ceremony.
Keys wore an ivory silk, georgette-draped Vera Wang goddess gown with jewel detail on the back shoulder.
She carried a bouquet of purple calla lilies. The groom donned a classic Tom Ford tuxedo.
“Wowwwwwwwwww,” Beatz (real name: Kasseem Dean) Twittered Saturday. He later wrote, “It’s a brand new day :) I feel like Nas and Diddy song :) love y’all and blessing!”
Certainly, there were celebrities on hand especially Atlanta’s elite. Singer El Debarge put on one of the best performances at this year’s BET Awards, serenaded the couple and the ceremony was topped off with brightly colored fireworks. The couple did not stop there though. After the ceremony enclosed, the newlywed couples T.I. and Tiny jetted to Atlanta as well as Las Vegas to party the night away. The event was further marked with bright and beautiful fireworks over the waters.
Bill and Hillary Clinton have tried to shield their daughter, Chelsea, from the gaze of the public for most of her life.
But on her wedding day on Saturday, even as the Clintons sought to shroud the event in secrecy, local residents and onlookers decided they were going to celebrate along with them, invited or not.
So despite confidentiality agreements, anonymous hotel reservations and a no-fly zone established over the area, this moneyed and normally subdued town turned into a Chelsea theme park, with shop windows filled with tributes to her, including one with a live model in a wedding dress having her makeup done.
A baseball team sent its mascot, dressed up as a raccoon, parading through town with a sign asking Chelsea Clinton to marry him.
Teenage boys chased after the former Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, seeking autographs.
Young women passed out slices of pizza with “I do” written in pepperoni.
Caravans of guests sped by reporters who waited forlornly in a pen on the road leading to the wedding site, while, just beyond, a dozen brown milk cows chewed on dinner.
At 7:23 p.m. came an announcement from the family via e-mail: Ms. Clinton was now married to Marc Mezvinsky.
“Today, we watched with great pride and overwhelming emotion as Ms. Chelsea and Mr. Marc wed in a beautiful ceremony at Astor Courts, surrounded by family and their close friends,” said the Clintons in a statement.
“We could not have asked for a more perfect day to celebrate the beginning of their life together, and we are so happy to welcome Marc into our family.”
The former President and Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State, also thanked Rhinebeck for its welcome and good wishes.
Ms. Clinton (30) wore a strapless beaded gown designed by Vera Wang, who caused a commotion of her own when she showed up in town on Saturday. The mother of the bride wore a plum-coloured gown by Oscar de la Renta.
The interfaith ceremony was conducted by Rabbi James Ponet and the Rev. William Shillady. Ms. Clinton is Methodist, and Mr. Mezvinsky is Jewish.
It included elements from both traditions: friends and family reading the Seven Blessings, which are typically recited at traditional Jewish weddings following the vows and exchange of rings.
A friend of the couple read the poem “The Life That I Have” by Leo Marks.
Many of the guests were friends of the bride and groom from college and work; They both attended Stanford University, and Ms. Clinton recently received her master’s degree from Columbia University’s Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health.
Family flew in, too. The President’s half-brother, Roger Clinton, was spotted in town in a T-shirt and track pants hours before the wedding.
Mr. Clinton appeared to have followed his daughter’s instructions and lost quite a bit of weight for the ceremony.
She had ordered him to lose 15 pounds, but people close to the President said he had actually lost more than 20.
While the media and local residents have been buzzing for months about celebrities who were expected here — including Oprah Winfrey, Barbra Streisand, Steven Spielberg and John Major, the former British Prime Minister — none of those particular bold-faced names was invited.
Still there was star power: One of the most prominent guests was Vernon Jordan, a longtime confidant of the former President and a family friend.
But he was not generally recognisable to the gawkers here as he strode into a cocktail reception on Friday night. One man in the crowd asserted authoritatively that he was Hamilton Jordan, who was an aide to former President Jimmy Carter and who died in 2008.
The media pack surrounded the actors Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen, who are married, with the force of a sudden summer storm.
“We must be the only celebrities in town,” said Danson said. “I’m sorry.”
Photos released by the Clintons showed the former President looking solemn as he walked his daughter down an aisle created by rows of white chairs against a backdrop of arched windows and columns that evoked the White House.
Mr. Mezvinsky, an investment banker at 3G Capital Management and a son of two former Democratic members of Congress, proposed to Clinton over Thanksgiving weekend.
