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LONDON - It looks set to offer a riot of colour to defy even the threatened June showers in many areas this weekend.
A WAGs fiesta to end them all takes place as four leading Premiership footballers tie the knot with their glamorous fiancees.
Chelsea and England captain John Terry went for an early kick-off on Friday, marrying Toni Poole in a ceremony at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire.
On Saturday, Manchester United's Gary Neville marched down the aisle with Emma Hadfield, a 24-year-old holistic therapy student, at Manchester Cathedral with a reception afterwards at Neville's mansion near Bolton, Lancashire.
On the same day, Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard married Alex Curran at Cliveden House on the banks of the Thames in Berkshire.
Cliveden, best known as the country house where John Profumo, then Secretary of State for War, and high-class call girl Christine Keeler first met in 1961, is now a luxury hotel where even the most basic suite costs from 230 pounds.
Manchester United midfielder Michael Carrick, meanwhile, will be celebrating with new wife Lisa Roughead in Leicestershire after they complete the formalities at a church service in nearby Melton Mowbray.
Apart from the likely cut of the brides' dresses, the most intense media speculation ahead of the weddings themselves was which glossy magazine had signed up which couple and for how much.
Another hot topic is the identity of the likely guests, particularly Wayne Rooney and David Beckham.
If Beckham goes to any of them ahead of his last game for Real Madrid on Monday, it will most likely be that of Neville, who was best man for Beckham at his own nuptials with the then Victoria Adams in July 1999.
Football fans and watchers of the Wives And Girlfriends unlucky enough not to have been invited will have to wait until later this month when the thousands of extra copies of the celebrity magazines being printed hit the shops.
Sneak previews are widely expected to be available in the tabloids on Sunday.
- REUTERS