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 The two left the Aman on a wooden speedboat appropriately
called "Amore" on Sunday afternoon, headed for the famed
Cipriani hotel, where they were expected to have a late lunch.
Clooney, 53, wearing a light gray suit, and the 36-year-old Amal,
wearing a short, white flower-patterned dress with lace around
the shoulders, waved at a swarm of photographers in boats and
well wishers on bridges as the boat slowly plied the waters of
the canal towards the Cipriani on the Giudecca Island.
Speculation about more celebrations to come spread after the
local government said it would close a number of streets around
Venice's 14th-century Ca' Farsetti town hall on Monday.
"George and Amal: the first 'I do' is fiction, tomorrow the
(real) wedding at Ca' Farsetti," said local paper Il Gazzettino
following Saturday's star-studded dinner at which the pair were
reported to have said informal wedding vows. While the Clooney
camp has been tight-lipped, local and national media reported
that Monday's ceremony would be officiated by Rome's former
mayor Walter Veltroni, who is a film buff and friend of
Clooney's.
The weekend extravaganza has been billed as the party of the
year even as details remained secret and lavish receptions and
dinners at luxurious hotels were shielded from prying eyes and
photographer's long lenses.
Clooney, a two-time Oscar winner, was the talk of the town after
welcoming A-list guests including actors Matt Damon and Bill
Murray, model Cindy Crawford and singer Bono to a drinks
reception and gala dinner on Saturday night. "Everybody's been
talking about it, everywhere we went today it was just 'Clooney,
Clooney, Clooney'," said Canadian art intern Megan Ho, 23,
standing opposite the hotel where the dinner took place.
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LOWER PROFILE
Alamuddin has kept a lower profile than her new groom during the
weekend's festivities, stepping out first in a black-and-white
striped dress on a water taxi on Friday, before appearing in a more
formal red dress that evening.
Alamuddin has represented former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia
Tymoshenko and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in legal
proceedings. She has also advised former United Nations Secretary
General Kofi Annan on Syria, an issue about which Clooney has spoken
publicly.
Clooney has also campaigned to draw attention to the plight of
refugees in Darfur, Sudan, and the couple is expected to donate to
that cause the fees earned from selling rights to the wedding photos
to American Vogue magazine, whose editor-in-chief Anna Wintour
attended the event.
The Kentucky-born Clooney, who shot to stardom in the television
series "ER", had vowed never to remarry after his 1993 divorce from
actress Talia Balsam and is said to have made a $100,000 bet with
Michelle Pfeiffer that he would stay single.
(Additional reporting by Antonio Denti and Cristiano Corvino in
Venice; Editing by Michael Roddy and Crispian Balmer)
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