Angelina Jolie And Brad Pitt Plan Cruise Ship Wedding
Angelina Jolie And Brad Pitt Hollywood's hottest couple seems to tie the knot soon. The buzz about their wedding plans seems to be reaching a fever pitch, so it's got to happen any day now. For high-profile celebrities Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, being married at sea offers another advantage too: no paparazzi as far as the eye can see.
"They could always sail to a secluded bay off the Orkney or Shetland islands and have the ceremony there," a source told British newspaper The Sun. Originally planning to marry this summer at Chateau Miraval, their estate in France, the couple is now looking to tie the knot aboard the Hebridean Princess on a cruise ship wedding instead.
Used by the Queen of England in 2006 to celebrate her 80th birthday and again in 2010 for a family holiday, the Hebridean Princess was originally a car ferry but was refit in 1989 to become a luxury cruise ship. Due to the small size of the ship, Brad and Angelina's guest list would be limited to 50 people at an estimated cost of £300,000 (about $450,000).
Jolie is considering Hawaii as a wedding location, at least for "the legal part of the ceremony," which would be "a very private, emotional affair" with just the couple and their children, a source says. Hawaii was her mother Marcheline Bertrand's favourite place, and Jolie wants to wear Bertrand's wedding dress from the 1970s.
The pair share six children together and have been engaged since April 2012. A number of major personal developments have transpired between them in the past 15 months.
Angelina Jolie revealed that she recently underwent a preventive double mastectomy because of her high risk of breast cancer. She added that she was able to continue working during that time while keeping the procedures a secret.
Doctors told She -- whose mother, Marcheline Bertrand, died six years ago at age 56 after a 10-year battle with ovarian cancer -- that she carries a "faulty" gene, BRCA1. They estimated that she had an 87 percent risk of breast cancer and a 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer. She underwent three months of medical procedures, which began Feb. 2 and were completed April 27. She was treated at the Pink Lotus Breast Center, which has four locations in the Los Angeles area.
She said, "Once I knew that this was my reality, I decided to be proactive and to minimize the risk as much I could," she wrote. "I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy. I started with the breasts, as my risk of breast cancer is higher than my risk of ovarian cancer, and the surgery is more complex."
Brad Pitt, her long-time beau has been "loving and supportive" throughout the entire process.
"It looks like it could really happen this time."