Elizabeth Hurley and Arun Nayar Wed
Elizabeth Hurley and Arun Nayar are now married. The couple tied the knot Friday at a castle in England.
Gloucestershire County Council confirmed that the actress and swimwear-company boss, 41, and the Indian businessman, 42, wed at Sudeley Castle in Winchcombe, 125 miles west of London, the Associated Press reports.
The newlyweds will hold a religious service and party at the castle later Saturday, with guests including Elton John and Donatella Versace.
The Rev. John Partington, who will conduct the service on Saturday, said that, like many modern brides, Hurley will not promise to obey Nayar. Instead, she will likely vow to “love him, comfort him, honor and keep him, in sickness and in health.”
“They had a choice of using contemporary language or old-fashioned language and they have chosen the old-fashioned language,” Partington says.
The service will open with the hymn “Praise My Soul,” and bride and groom and the entire bridal party will be outfitted by Versace. The rings are by Chopard.
Today’s celebrations will be followed by a week of celebrations and a ceremony in India, the British press is reporting.
Hurley and Nayar, an England-raised textile heir and CEO of a software company, have dated since 2003. Nayar was previously married to Italian model Valentina Pedroni; Hurley, who dated Hugh Grant for 10 years, has a 4-year-old son, Damian, from a relationship with film producer Steve Bing.
Hurley recently told German Vanity Fair that she and Nayar met through mutual friends, a couple who were worried about her after her split from Bing. “They said they had a very nice friend, very good-looking, who just separated from his wife.”
They been together ever since, she said, and Damian calls him Papa.
When the couple are in England they are mainly based at the 400-acre farm in Gloucestershire that Hurley bought in 2003. Country life, Nayar said in 2005, agrees with them: “I’ll take Damian out on the tractor while Elizabeth cooks,” he said. “It’s a bit like the Waltons.”