French president Nicolas Sarkozy has married his girlfriend, former model and singer Carla Bruni at the Elysee Palace, the mayor who performed the ceremony said.
"The bride wore white, she was ravishing, as usual," Francois Lebel, mayor of Paris' eighth arrondissement, or neighbourhood, told Europe-1 radio. "The groom wasn't bad either."
Sarkozy, 53, and Bruni, 40, were married in the presence of close family and friends at the Elysee Palace, Lebel said, calling the ceremony "a moment of family intimacy for the young newlyweds, of great simplicity and apparently a lot of affection between the spouses."
"I wished them a lot of happiness," he said.
Under French law, couples must tie the knot before a mayor to make their union official.
Sarkozy and Bruni reportedly met in November, soon after his October divorce from Cecilia, his second wife. They went public with their relationship during a visit to Disneyland Paris, and they remained in the spotlight during trips to Egypt and Jordan.
Sarkozy's openness about his private life has surprised many French, accustomed to presidents who keep their love lives under wraps.
But he had refused to reveal the date for his wedding plans, saying only that France might only learn about the nuptials once they had already taken place.
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