Jimmy Wales, co-founder and promoter of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia and the Wikia company has married Tony Blair's former secretary, Kate Garvey in a ceremony held at the Wesley's Church in the London, which was witnessed by the who's who of the world of politics and entertainment.
The ceremony was attend by Alastair Campbell, Blair's former spin doctor, who played the bagpipes in a kilt in Clan Campbell tartan along with Blair and wife Cherie.
The list of guests also included Mick Hucknall, former lead singer of Simply Red, Lily Cole, the model and actress, and former Labour minister Lord Adonis, The Telegraph reports.
According to the paper, the names on the guest list also included Steve Hilton, the current Prime Minister's former director of strategy, and his wife Rachel Whetsone, who is an executive with Google.
The couple, who have one child, first met at the World Economic Forum at Davos and later Wales reportedly asked a close aide to get the detailed information of Garvey, but not from Wikipedia, in case they were wrong, the paper said.
The wedding was the third for Wales, 46, from Alabama and the first for Garvey, 40, now a director of Freud Communications, it added.
-With inputs from ANI
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