Desperate Housewives minx Eva Longoria and basketball champ Tony Parker wed at the Ch teau de Vaux-le-Vicomte, near Paris, today after holding their hen and stag parties in St Tropez. They started their week of French fabulousness staying at the Ch teau de la Messardi re (00 33 494 56 76 00, www.messardiere.
com), where doubles start at 325 a night, and partied at the wonderfully kitsch Caves du Roy and the VIP Room. Vaux-le-Vicomte is closing its grounds to the public for the first time, and Parker has booked Lionel Richie and Jamie Foxx to perform at the ceremony. Find your own ch teau hideaway through www.
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