Coppola's famous filmmaker father, Francis Ford Coppola,
escorted the 40-year-old Sofia down the aisle Saturday to a waiting Mars, lead
singer of the French band Phoenix and the father of their two young daughters.
The early evening ceremony took place in the garden of the
palazzo that the elder Coppola renovated in the historic center of Bernalda, a
city near the Gulf of Taranto in Italy's Basilicata region, according to Mayor Leonardo
Chiruzzi who performed the ceremony.
"Everything went well," Chiruzzi told The
Associated Press afterwards. "It was simple, calm, in the garden." The
bride wore a sheer, lavender tulle dress and Mars a gray suit with a flower in
the lapel. The bride and her father were preceded down the aisle by the
couple's older daughter and other children. After Coppola and Mars said their
"si" in the civil service, she tossed her bouquet and a friend caught
it, Chiruzzi said.
The newlyweds and the father of the bride, wearing a white
linen suit and pink shirt, then popped out of the palazzo briefly to greet
onlookers. She was holding a glass of bubbly.
