THERE’LL be a string quartet, gospel readings and a man with a handle-bar moustache, but guests fearing a long sermon can relax – the “beautiful and uplifting” ceremony will last just 35 minutes.
As more details of the wedding of the year leaked yesterday, it emerged actress Nicole Kidman and country singer Keith Urban will marry by the seaside at Manly’s Cardinal Cerruti Memorial Chapel on Sydney’s northern beaches this Sunday.Kidman’s two children arrived in Sydney today ahead of their mother’s weekend wedding to Urban.
The Oscar winner’s two children, Isabella, 13, and Connor, 11, are believed to have flown to Australia in a private jet from Tokyo.
Kidman adopted the children with actor Tom Cruise during their 10-year marriage.
Cruise has been in Tokyo promoting his latest file, Mission Impossible: III.
Isabella and Connor were picked up at Sydney Airport by Kidman’s security staff in a black Mercedes and sat in the back seat hidden behind tinted windows.
They arrived shortly before midday at the Darling Point home that Kidman had bought with Cruise.
Police confirmed security plans for the wedding, while a marquee under construction on the lawns of the Catholic church estate was another hard-to-miss sign the celebrity event is just days away.
As Keith’s family and Nicole’s best friend Naomi Watts flew into Sydney for the celebrations, the priest who will marry the couple revealed details of the church service.
Father Paul Coleman said the service would feature music and readings chosen by Kidman’s mother Janelle.
It is understood a string quartet from the Sydney Symphony Orchestra will play as the bride, on the arm of her father Antony, walks down the aisle.
After the service, the wedding party and guests are expected to move to the sandstone reception hall next door for drinks, dinner and dancing.
Father Coleman, a Kidman family friend for more than 30 years, confirmed the church service plans with the happy couple at the bride’s Darling Point home on Monday.
“It will be a very solemn moment in their lives,” Father Coleman said.
The brief counselling session was fast-tracked because of the couple’s international commitments and crammed into their schedule of pre-wedding events this week.
While other couples marrying into the Catholic church are expected to complete extensive relationship courses, Father Coleman said he was confident of the couple’s love after his visit this week.
“You’ve got to rely on their maturity and knowledge of each other and I’m impressed,” Father Coleman said.
In his wedding sermon, Father Coleman plans to lecture the couple on the secret of keeping love alive: “Make time for each other, do romantic things together and never part without kissing.”
Despite the fact Kidman has been divorced and Urban is not a Catholic, Father Coleman had a “good feeling about their chances”.
“It’s a good story in the age of fragile marriages and broken hearts,” he said.
At Sydney airport, the Urban clan arrived from Maroochydore on a budget Virgin Airlines flight.
Keith’s mother Marienne was accompanied by her husband Bob, who stood out in the crowd with his handle-bar moustache, her son Shane, his wife Jennifer and their two children.
It was revealed today that Urban has allegedly had to sign a pre-nuptial agreement earning him $875,000 for every year he is with Kidman, Britain’s Daily Mail reported today.But there is a get-out clause for Kidman as the agreement to give Urban any settlement reportedly becomes null and void if the country star uses illegal drugs or alcohol to excess.
The alleged agreement was signed in Los Angeles before the pair arrived in Sydney this week.
















































