SYDNEY - Stumps have been drawn in the cricket match, now it's time for the wedding.
New Zealand-born actor Russell Crowe marries long-time sweetheart Danielle Spencer at his northern New South Wales property tomorrow and has revealed on the eve of the nuptials how they hope to start a family.
"That's one
of the main reasons you enter into marriage. We'll see how it goes," he told the Sun-Herald newspaper yesterday.
The wedding festivities are a three-day affair and while the total number of guests is unknown, Crowe has booked out at least 80 rooms at the Novotel Pacific Bay Hotel which is not far from his Nana Glen estate.
Crowe said he wasn't nervous because he was certain about his decision to marry Spencer.
"I've been thinking about it for a long time so I don't have any second thoughts. The thought crossed my mind the first time I met her."
Crowe said he and Spencer had a "deep respect" and "mutual understanding" for each other from the time they first met on the set of 1990 film The Crossing.
The couple considered they owed their parents a public wedding, he said.
"My mother's been hoping for this to happen since the day I turned 16. It was either going to be eloping or doing something like this."
The wedding would be simple and traditional, he said.
"We didn't write our own vows, we're going to have a very traditional wedding."
And the cricket? The Crowes versus Spencers match was played on Crowe's private cricket oval yesterday. Crowe's team, captained by his cousin, former New Zealand cricket captain Jeff Crowe, beat the Spencers which included the recently banned legspinner Shane Warne.
Russell Crowe showed better form at the bowling crease than Warne, taking four wickets for 11 runs.
Guests at the wedding include Ridley Scott, who directed the Gladiator film from which Crowe won an Academy Award. Fashion guru Giorgio Armani and actor Jack Thompson are others, while media mogul Kerry Packer is also expected to attend.
Spencer's father will walk her through an elaborate system of covered walkways before entering the purpose-built wedding chapel on the property.
The wedding is expected to attract a media frenzy, with camera crews from across the globe booking all available local helicopters to gain the best vantage point over Crowe's property.
Crowe, who turns 39 tomorrow, said the couple would spend at least three weeks on honeymoon.
- NZPA
SYDNEY - Stumps have been drawn in the cricket match, now it's time for the wedding.
New Zealand-born actor Russell Crowe marries long-time sweetheart Danielle Spencer at his northern New South Wales property tomorrow and has revealed on the eve of the nuptials how they hope to start a family.
"That's one
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