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Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' Italian castle wedding is in jeopardy for the local priest has refused to get them married. Apparently, the twice-divorced scientologist and his girlfriend haven't completed all paperwork yet |
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| Miya-biwi razi toh kya karega kazi? Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes |
A romantic Italian wedding for Hollywood couple Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes might be a "Mission: Impossible," according to local officials.
The priest with jurisdiction over the dreamy lakeside castle tipped as the chosen location for the wedding says his parish won't marry Cruise, and the mayor says she can't because the couple haven't done the official paperwork.
The small Italian town of Bracciano has been swimming with picture-snapping paparazzi since it was reported that the town was chosen by the couple for their wedding later this month.
Mayor Patrizia Riccioni told Reuters she would like the wedding to take place, but that it was unlikely any celebration would be blessed with state recognition given that the couple have not provided the needed documents.
"I don't think it will be legal," she said. "On an Italian level, there are papers and documents that we certainly don't have (for a wedding)."
But Cruise and Holmes' Los Angeles-based publicist dismissed the notion that the American couple's nuptials depended on official sanctioning by Italian authorities.
"They are making all the proper and necessary arrangements for their marriage to be legal," said publicist Arnold Robinson.
Cruise and Holmes announced in October that they would marry on Nov. 18 in Italy, with Giorgio Armani designing Holmes' gown.
Their first public appearance as a couple was in Italy, where they attended film awards in Rome in 2005.
Holmes' parents are both Roman Catholics, and one Italian newspaper wrote that the twice-divorced Cruise, a devout Scientologist, wanted to have a legally binding Catholic ceremony in Bracciano's imposing castle.
The priest with responsibility for Bracciano has said that whatever ceremony Cruise and Holmes have, it cannot be Catholic because Cruise is divorced and does not have parish permission.
"Cruise is divorced," Monsignor Nicola Fiorentini told Italian media. "Even if the actor were not divorced, another fundamental requirement to validate the rite would be missing: the authorisation of the parish."
Wedding-watchers have also cautioned that if the couple go ahead with a Scientology ceremony alone, the Italian state is not likely to recognise it.
The Church of Scientology was formed by the late American science-fiction novelist L. Ron Hubbard.
The red tape and the naysayers haven't quelled the excitement around the 15th century Castello Odescalchi, which has hosted a pope and kings.
"It's a wonderful thing because it will bring back to life this dead countryside," local pensioner Maria Rosati said. |
