Steve Martin throws surprise wedding
Updated on 30 July 2007
Forget Father of the Bride, Hollywood star Steve Martin was the one getting married this time in a surprise wedding ceremony.
The actor and funnyman married girlfriend Anne Stringfield in his trademark wacky style in front of 75 stunned guests who thought they had been invited to his home for a party.
Some of the celebrities treated to the shock nuptials included Tom Hanks and Diane Keaton.
Martin, 61, was sporting a moustache that he has let grow for his role as Inspector Clouseau in an upcoming sequel to the 2006 movie The Pink Panther, which co-starred R&B diva Beyoncé.
Former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey presided over the ceremony and the best man was Lorne Michaels, the creator of Saturday Night Live, a popular US comedy show that Martin has guest hosted several times.
It is the first marriage for 35-year-old Stringfield, a former staff writer at The New Yorker magazine, and the second for Martin, who divorced British actress Victoria Tennant in 1994.
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