French President Nicolas Sarkozy married former model Carla Bruni on Saturday at the Elysee Palace, according to the official who performed the ceremony. "The bride wore white, she was ravishing, as usual," Francois Lebel, mayor of Paris' eighth arrondissement, or neighborhood, told Europe-1 radio. "The groom wasn't bad either."Sarkozy, 53, and Bruni, 40, were married in the presence of close family and friends, Lebel said, calling the ceremony "a moment of family intimacy for the young newlyweds, of great simplicity and apparently a lot of affection between the spouses. "I wished them a lot of happiness," he said.
Under French law, couples must tie the knot before a mayor to make their union official.