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Sir Paul McCartney-Heather Mills Wedding Tomorrow

Aired June 10, 2002 - 13:23   ET

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LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: Now, we play that because well, not that just we like it, we do. But because we hear that a new version of that song may be tomorrow in Glaslough, Ireland. That's where the next chapter in the storybook romance of Sir Paul McCartney and Heather Mills is going to unfold. With the knight marrying his lady in a castle. Our Richard Quest is standing by outside.

I guess the rain has stopped, so now he's dry. He's out there outside the castle right now -- Richard.

RICHARD QUEST, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Leon, there isn't one part of me that is dry after a day standing outside Castle Leslie. It has bucketed it down right through the day. In fact, the only time it stopped raining, there was a brief window, that was when Paul McCartney and Heather Mills actually came out to greet the press and to say hello to some of the local people who had given them a warm welcome.

Sir Paul said that he had been very grateful of the kind words that he had received from the people and that the letters that they received. He actually gave his fiancee a kiss and a rose, and then when some of the press missed that particular event, he agreed to do it all over again. Sir Paul said this was going to be a family wedding, what he called a "bit of fun."

It wasn't a celebrity wedding in any shape or form. He said there would only be about 10 celebrities that any of us would probably have recognized. And then he also said -- we got some other information about the ceremony and the wedding dress. The wedding dress has been designed by both Heather Mills and one of the London designers. It had been thought that Stella McCartney, Paul McCartney's daughter, might have been involved, but she wasn't.

And we know the name of the best man. It's Paul McCartney's brother, Mike McCartney. But that's just about all we do know about the ceremony. And of course, the possibility that Ringo Starr may have rewritten, or a least a new orchestration, a new version of "All You Need is Love."

Now, the castle itself. Castle Leslie behind me. There are 14 bedrooms in the castle. We know that tonight, being the night before the nuptials, we know that the two will spend the night apart. One of the them will be staying in the red room. And the best we can show you about that is what we've seen from the Web site. And there are pictures, Castle Leslie is missing no opportunity. Everything from selling onion marmalade to showing us pictures of what the red room looks like, where one of them will spend the night.

Sir Paul and the new Lady McCartney, as she will be after tomorrow, will then spend a couple of days in the castle after the ceremony. That's after the 300 guests have gone.

So frankly, Leon, now that the rain has stopped, things are looking a jolly slight more cheerful than they have been all day. But I wouldn't put money on it; stopping raining for too long, this is Ireland after all.

HARRIS: That is true. At least the sun is out. Maybe Sir Paul will come back out and kiss somebody else. But in the meantime, let me ask you this. Are the names and faces you say we may recognize there in the crowd, obviously, there's not going to be -- no real performances aside from perhaps Ringo Starr's?

QUEST: We just have no idea. The sheer amount of equipment that's being bused in -- the speakers, the generators, the instruments -- leads one to assume there will be many performances during the course. But exactly who is on the wedding list, on the guest list, they're not saying. We still -- we weren't able to ask whether Bill Clinton, who's rumored to be one of the guests, after all, he can always give a bit of a performance on the old saxophone.

There's been no confirmation that he actually will be one of the guests. I think -- what they've basically said is that this a very important day for the two of them. They've invited mostly family and friends. Although, frankly, who else would you invite to a wedding besides your family and friends. And many of them have come from Liverpool, where of course Paul McCartney grew up.

Once you have said that, facts are few and far between. I could pretty much tell you anything, Leon, after what we've heard in these surrounding houses, during the course of the day -- for instance -- for instance, where did he propose? Some people say he proposed here. Other people say he proposed in the Lake District in Northern England. You pay your money, you take your choice.

HARRIS: That and your onion marmalade. Richard Quest, they're outside Castle Leslie in Ireland. Thanks very much. Have a good one, and try to stay dry. We'll check back with you later on, buddy.

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