Palermo ‘honoured’ by rumors Dua Lipa and Callum Turner might marry there in June | Dua Lipa
Last July, Dua Lipa shared a series of photos on Instagram while on holiday in Palermo with Callum Turner, the British actor she had turn out to be engaged weeks earlier. In these photographs, the pair appeared radiantly in love with one another – and the Sicilian capital.
There had been footage of the couple strolling by means of the town’s vibrant baroque alleys, admiring the ceiling frescoes in its hanging cathedral and having fun with sundown boat journeys. In one other, a smiling Turner is holding a pair of ricotta-filled cannoli, the Sicilian dessert. One photograph even captured the phrase ‘“amore” scrawled on a wall.
Now, rumors percolate that the couple might marry in Palermo this summer season – presumably in June – and it is unlikely anybody is extra excited than Alessandro Minnone, the proprietor of Colletti, a bar in the town heart from the place Dua Lipa posted footage of herself shuffling playing cards and holding a Campari soda when the couple visited for an appetizer.
“I was honored to welcome her to my venue,” Minnone advised the Guardian, describing Dua Lipa as “a very down-to-earth and warm person.”
“When I heard the news of her [possible] wedding here in Palermo, it was wonderful. I hope she comes back to my place. If she does not, that is fine too. As someone from Palermo, I can only feel proud that an international star like her has decided to return – and even to get married here.”
Speculation over the pair’s nuptials has been rife because the newspaper Giornale di Sicilia claimed {that a} wedding ceremony planner had been employed to organize the celebrations in Palermo, together with reserving an entire floor of suites at Villa Igieathe five-star artwork nouveau resort owned by the Rocco Forte Hotels group.
A supply at Villa Igiea mentioned that whereas rooms for the marriage visitors had been reserved, the ceremony itself wouldn’t happen on the venue. The supply additionally mentioned that the rooms had been booked for June, contradicting reviews that the marriage can be held September 5-7.
A spokesperson for Dua Lipa didn’t reply to a request for remark and neither did Alessandra Grillo, the rumored wedding ceremony planner who organized the 2018 celebrations in Sicily between Chiara Ferragni, an Italian influencer, and the rapper Fedez, her now ex-husband.
Even in the absence of an official affirmation, there has not been this quantity of anticipation over a marriage in Italy because the star-studded shindig between the billionaire Amazon boss, Jeff Bezos, and Lauren Sánchez in Venice final June, an occasion that both enthralled and appalled.
But if the Bezos’ nuptials had been referred to as “wedding of the century” by the Italian press owing to the massive price and domination of the town, this occasion one has merely been predicted because the “wedding of the year”.
La Repubblica prompt the bride might have chosen the internal courtyard of GAM, Palermo’s gallery for contemporary artwork, to alternate vows. The newspaper additionally cited the church of Santa Maria dello Spasimo, higher identified merely because the Spasimo and lately restored, as a attainable venue, whereas native media prompt that Piazza Croce dei Vespri will play a central function, requiring the sq. to be fully cordoned off. The couple might quickly return to the town to scout places, in response to reviews.
Lipa, 30, first met Turner, 36, an actor extensively tipped to be the frontrunner to play the subsequent James Bond, in 2023, after being launched on the River Cafe in west London. But the pair didn’t get collectively till a 12 months later when their paths crossed at a restaurant in Los Angeles.
The singer’s love affair with Palermo, a city that has undergone a radical transformation over the past decade or so, additionally seems to have begun in 2023. That was the 12 months Foot Locker Europe launched a sequence of photos of her wearing the pink shirt of Palermo football club to advertise the “Puma Palermo” trainers. The footage had been shared by the Sicilian membership’s social media accounts with the caption: “Dua Lipa knows what’s up! The Puma pink Palermo is the way to go.”
Needless to say, rumors that Lipa will wed in Palermo have been greeted by a lot pleasure from native followers, with many hoping to satisfy her or catch a glimpse of her in a marriage costume.
“I can already imagine her in a white dress walking through the streets of Palermo,” mentioned Iole, 13, including that the town would “welcome her again with open arms.” “We can’t wait. The excitement is sky high: an international star chooses your city to celebrate one of the most important events of her life. How could we not feel honored?”
