Looking back on George and Amal Clooney’s $4.6 million Italian vows

Looking back, it’s rather grainy George Clooney He did not realize his marriage to the international human rights lawyer Amal Clooney (née alam al-din) would make such a splash.

Five months after he got down on one knee halfway through a homemade pasta dinner – his aunt Rosemary ClooneyTrack “Why Shouldn’t I?” Upon signaling that it’s time to ask Amal to take a lighter from the drawer as she discovers the 7-carat diamond he requested – they gather 100 of their nearest and dearest to Venice promises that will see them traverse the city’s maze of canals for four days.

“We didn’t tell anyone else we were going to do it,” George later said. Hollywood Reporter“But eventually someone figured it out.”

Once people learned of the plans, “it became an event,” he continued. They took a four-hour bus ride from his 18th-century villa on Lake Como to Venice. “And as soon as we got on the boat, there were a lot of photographers and a lot of people standing there waiting. We were sitting in the boat, and I was like, ‘Do you?’ Learn why we hide? Why shouldn’t we be ashamed of this? We got up and waved.”