The rise in marriages recently reported by the National Institute of Statistics (INE) is also spreading to celebrities. There are still months left for the traditional wedding season in the Peninsula, but today the celebrations begin for the first royal engagement of the year in the Far East, where the dry season is now passing. Prince Abdul Mateen of Brunei will marry Bruneian aristocrat Anisha Isa Kalebic in a wedding that will last several days.
The prince – who is not the heir, but is the most visible face of the royal family of the sultanate – is quite a star on Instagram, where he has more than 2.5 million followers. He is the son of the Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, whose fortune is estimated at around 15,000 million euros, so great pomp is expected between today and January 16.
Another golden bachelor who won’t be a bachelor for long is Hugh Grosvenor, Duke of Westminster, who will marry account manager Olivia Henson on June 7. He is one of the most important landowners in the United Kingdom, and due to his strong ties of friendship with the British royal family, the wedding promises to bring together the best of Europe. Although the groom is the godson of King Charles III, also the godfather of Prince George, and several Windsors are expected at the celebration, according to what several British tabloids claim, Prince Henry and Meghan Markle have not been invited to the celebration of ‘this link will therefore save you the flight from Los Angeles and the gift.
After four years of courtship, a royal couple who almost managed to surpass the Dukes of Sussex in controversy will finally walk down the aisle after several failed wedding plans. Marta Lluïsa of Norway and shaman Durek Verret will marry on August 31 at the historic Hotel Unió in Geiranger, Norway. King Harald V declared last week in an interview broadcast on Norwegian television that “it will be a very beautiful link. We are looking forward to his arrival.” It has been a long road to the altar, filled with fantastic statements from Verret about alternative medicine. In 2022 the princess resigned from official duties after losing popularity for trying to use her title in the United States for commercial purposes with her future husband, when they tried to patent the “The Princess and the Shaman” header.
In Spain, despite the total discretion of José Luis Martínez – Almeida and Teresa Urquijo regarding their wedding preparations, this week it transpired that the couple will go down the aisle on April 6. They surprised at the presentation as a couple in June by going together to the Feria de San Isidro in Las Ventas, and less than a year later they are planning a spring link at the estate El canto de la cruz, owned by the family of the future bride, whose grandmother, Teresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies and Bourbon-Parma, is a cousin of King John Charles. With more than two decades of difference, this couple will fatten the cliché that love does not understand ages. During the cavalcade of the Kings of the Orient in Madrid on Friday, the mayor expressed happiness when asked about the future wedding: “Yes, I can’t complain to the Kings of the Orient this year. I have no complaints.”
The wedding that will bring together the cast of Los Serrano and the contestants of Operación Triunfo 9, Ana Guerra and Víctor Elías, has not yet been set. The couple announced their engagement in October and as a curious fact they have announced that the wedding it will be pet friendly, so that the guests and their pets can enjoy the celebration equally, and that they will not celebrate it at the weekend, since their professional colleagues have most of their projects scheduled on Saturdays.
Patricia Montero and Álex have already postponed their wedding three times and hope to be able to celebrate it next summer. They got engaged in November 2017, already five years ago, and have been pushing back the date for various reasons, the last time, because they wanted to get married in a certain place which, as she explained, is already booked and paid for.
Another long-awaited wedding is that of Sara Sálamo and Isco Alarcón. The actress and the footballer have been together for six years and have two children together, Theo and Piero. They got engaged during a family trip in November.
For her part, Natalia Jiménez has rebuilt her life. After starring in a Novia a la fuga-style episode in 2009, when she called off her wedding to Antonio Alcol a day early, and after a failed marriage to Daniel Trueba that gave her her only daughter, moment, the vocalist of La Quinta Estación got engaged in November to Arnold Hemkes and they will marry during 2024. They met at work, since he, in addition to developing as an entrepreneur, is part of her team as in charge of tours.
Second nuptials will also be celebrated by Irene Villa, who, after her divorce in 2018 from Juan Pablo Lauro, announced that she will go down the aisle this year with her new love, David Serrato. He knelt in front of Villa in May, during the Ibiza Inclusion Fashion Day gala. For his part, Lauro redid his life with Núria Fergó, whose wedding date is pending.
Antonio Rossi and Hugo Fuertes will marry on August 16, after two years together. The journalist is currently touring the UK with his fiance, who, at 25, is the youngest on the list.
