Story highlights
- Actor George Clooney legally marries lawyer Amal Alamuddin in Venice
- The civil ceremony follows the couple's private wedding n the Italian city on Saturday
- A-listers and paparazzi converge on Venice for Clooney's wedding celebrations
- Clooney and Alamuddin travel the canals on a boat named "Amore" -- or Love
George Clooney, the man long considered one of Hollywood's most eligible bachelors, followed up his private wedding to British human rights attorney Amal Alamuddin with a civil ceremony in Venice, Italy, on Monday.
Clooney, 53, and Alamuddin, 36, arrived at Venice's city hall -- the Ca' Farsetti palazzo -- in a water taxi appropriately named "Amore," or "Love."
Venetian authorities stopped pedestrian and boat traffic in the area for the ceremony.
Clooney wore a gray suit and dark tie, while Alamuddin was dressed in flowing cream trousers, a cream top with a blue border and a wide-brimmed matching hat.
The couple spent about 10 minutes inside the venue before boating to their hotel, with well-wishers lining the canal.
Rai, Italian state television, later reported that they had left Venice on a private jet, heading for London -- leaving "Amore" free for other visitors to the city.
Private ceremony
Celebrities, paparazzi and the world's media congregated in Venice for Clooney and Alamuddin's widely anticipated nuptials.
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Photos: George Clooney's love life
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George Clooney's love life – It looks like George Clooney's found the one. The actor has said he plans to marry British human rights attorney Amal Alamuddin in Italy this fall. Before Alamuddin, the debonair actor had an illustrious dating history -- just take a look:
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George Clooney's love life – Stacy Keibler: Clooney dated reality TV and WWE star Stacy Keibler from 2011 to 2013. He was hesitant to discuss his romance with Keibler, as he told the Hollywood Reporter in 2012, "there is so little in my life that is private." News spread in July that the two had broken up for an undisclosed reason. Keibler went on to marry entrepreneur Jared Pobre in Mexico in March.
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George Clooney's love life – Elisabetta Canalis: Clooney dated Italian actress and TV personality Elisabetta Canalis from 2009 to 2011 (we're sensing a pattern here). Their relationship was closely watched, and some thought Clooney had popped the question in 2010 when Canalis was photographed with a bauble on her finger. But it was actually a napkin ring she'd placed there as a joke.
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George Clooney's love life – Sarah Larson: Clooney and Sarah Larson started dating in 2007, but the romance was comparatively short-lived. Although their affair survived a motorcycle accident and a walk down the red carpet at the 2008 Academy Awards -- Larson being the first lady love of Clooney's to do so -- their relationship ended that May.
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George Clooney's love life – Krista Allen: Clooney fell for "Baywatch" actress Krista Allen in 2002. They met on the set of Clooney's directorial debut, "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind," and reportedly dated on and off until around 2008.
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George Clooney's love life – Lisa Snowdon: Clooney dated British model and media personality Lisa Snowdon on and off for about five years after reportedly meeting her on the set of a commercial in 2000.
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George Clooney's love life – Celine Balitran: The actor's affinity for international amour has a long history. He met Parisian law student and waitress Celine Balitran in 1996 while filming "The Peacemaker" in the City of Light. The two were an item until 1999.
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George Clooney's love life – Karen Duffy: Former MTV VJ Karen Duffy hooked Clooney in 1995, and while their romance didn't last, the friendship did. Duffy was spotted on a boat ride with Clooney and then-girlfriend Canalis in 2010.
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George Clooney's love life – Kelly Preston: Before Kelly Preston wed John Travolta, she was attached to Clooney. The actress lived with the actor during their courtship, which began in 1987. Clooney gave Preston a pet pig as a gesture of love, which he ended up keeping after they broke up in 1989.
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George Clooney's love life – Talia Balsam: The only woman who can claim to be an ex-wife and not just an ex-girlfriend is Talia Balsam, whom Clooney wed in 1989 after his relationship with Preston ended. The couple's history dated to 1984, but it wasn't enough to sustain the marriage. They divorced after three years of matrimony.
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Their private ceremony on Saturday was marked with a star-studded bash at the Aman Canal Grande Venice resort, housed in the 16th-century Palazzo Papadopoli.
Clooney also arrived by motorboat to that ceremony, waving to the sound of "George, auguri!" as Venetians offered their best wishes.
Plenty of paparazzi, cameramen and photographers were on the docks facing the Aman Canal Grande. Others were going up and down the Grand Canal on taxi boats.
The first celebrity guests to arrive were also caught on camera in the city famed for romance, notably actor Matt Damon, American Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and supermodel Cindy Crawford.
"I guess this is, as Dean Martin put it, 'That's Amore,' the land of love," said a tourist visiting Venice from Canada, referring to the late crooner's signature song.
"Yes, my heart is broken but I'm excited," his partner said with a smile.
The actor and his then-fiancee were also photographed Friday cruising the sun-dappled canals of Venice ahead of their big day.
Why Venice?
Clooney revealed earlier this month at a celebrity charity event in Tuscany, Italy, that he and Alamuddin would be tying the knot in Venice.
According to People magazine, Clooney was receiving a humanitarian award at the black-tie gala, and said during his acceptance speech, "I met my lovely bride-to-be here in Italy, whom I will be marrying, in a couple of weeks, in Venice, of all places."
Since they became engaged in the spring, Clooney and Alamuddin have been largely protective of their relationship.
When a Daily Mail report claimed that Clooney and his Lebanese future mother-in-law, Baria Alamuddin, were at odds, Clooney blasted the publication with a first-person piece in USA Today, and then refused to accept the Daily Mail's subsequent apology.
