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By Paul Scott

Just married: Laid-back groom Robbie Williams talks to his bride Ayda Field after their afternoon wedding on Saturday


Moments after tying the knot, Robbie Williams and his bride Ayda Field took themselves away from the guests to enjoy a few private moments as husband and wife.

Looking relaxed on a white sofa, the proud groom gazed at his new wife in her stunning white strapless gown, and wearing white roses in her hair.

The singer was photographed tenderly reaching out and touching her shoulder.
So what will the future hold for the couple...

As a recent party at the Hacienda-style home of Robbie Williams was winding down, the host sat perched on a counter-top in his cavernous kitchen holding court with a few remaining stragglers.

'Do you think it's possible to go forward in time,' he mused out of the blue, 'and change your destiny?'

Not surprisingly, perhaps, his statement was greeted with nervous coughs and mystified expressions from his gathered guests.

Williams nodded towards his actress girlfriend - and, as of Saturday afternoon, wife - Ayda Field, who was in her own conversation with some other friends.

'The reason I ask,' he said, 'is because Ayda's had another one of her premonitions.

Apparently, she saw us as an old, wrinkly couple with grandchildren, living in Australia.

'And Ayda's got the gift. If she says that's what's going to happen, then that what's going to happen. She's never wrong.'

After a few moments of bemused silence, one of those present plucked up the courage to ask him why he should want to seek to change such an idyllic vision of his old age.

According to one of those present, the singer let out a sigh. 'The rest of it's fine, but I really don't want to live in Australia,' he dead-panned.


Intimate: The couple married in front of a small group of 40 friend and family. Guests are pictured after the ceremony talking in the garden near a floral sign saying 'LOVE'


If the American Miss Field's intuition is to be believed, it appears that after years of playing the field and truly believing he would end up miserably alone, Williams will see out his dotage as a happily married man.

It would surely be churlish to point out that if he was so convinced of his new wife's blissful premonition, he might not have felt the need to insist on the pre-nup he is reported to have asked her to sign protecting his £80million fortune.


Newlyweds: Robbie and Ayda join their guests in the garden of their £12million home


Nonetheless, the 36-year-old star is, at long last, as contented as any of his friends can ever remember him. And for the most part his happiness is the result of his three year relationship with the beautiful Ayda.

The couple tied the knot on Saturday at Williams's £12million Beverly Hills mansion, witnessed by 40 friends and family (although his Take That bandmates could not attend because it was too short notice).

The ceremony itself took place in a 30ft marquee, with Williams's closest friend, entertainer Jonathan Wilkes, as best man. Williams wore a formal black suit with white bow tie while Miss Field, 31, was in a spectacular strapless gown with a gathered, full skirt. Her hair had been styled by celebrity coiffeur Ken Paves, a favourite of Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria.

A flower arrangement spelling out the word 'love' formed the centrepiece of the reception and staff served champagne - although teetotaller Williams abstained.

After the meal, guests moved to another tent where the couple danced the night away at a lavish six-hour party.

'They're very similar,' says one who has met Ayda on several occasions. 'Ayda's very quirky, just like Rob, and the pair of them do talk quite a lot of mumbo jumbo sometimes. 'But she's good for him. He always seemed so ill at ease with himself, but she's convinced him to like himself more.'


Nerves: The groom shortly before the wedding which was originally to take place on Valentine's Day but was postponed


Not that the relationship has been entirely trouble-free. The couple split up three times in the first year. And it has remained at times a volatile courtship.

I am told that this summer Ayda flounced out of their home after a row about fixing the date for the much-delayed wedding.

The storm blew itself out after a day or so, but friends say Ayda (pronounced Ida) had become increasingly frustrated at what she saw as her boyfriend's procrastinating.

She was already annoyed that Williams had called off a planned ceremony on Valentine's Day (he blamed his decision on the fact that details of the date had been leaked to the press).

'It's certainly not the case that he was dragged kicking and screaming up the aisle,' one of his circle told me. 'But it's fair to say he's had a few jitters.'

Which is, perhaps, understandable given that in the past he has had his choice of beautiful women.

He had high-profile flings with models Rachel Hunter and Tania Strecker, singers Nicole Appleton and Geri Halliwell, plus a willing carousel of groupies to warm his bed.

But it's Californian Ayda, who met Williams at a party in Los Angeles in 2007, who has bagged one of the most eligible bachelors in the world.

So how did she succeed in domesticating the capricious Robbie where so many others have failed?

The answer, according to friends of the couple, is that she has not only tolerated, but wholeheartedly embraced, some of her new husband's more eccentric tendencies.

Take, for example, a recent flight of fancy dreamt up by Stoke-born Williams one evening after he had been reading one of his favourite U.S. websites on which members swap unlikely conspiracy theories.


There goes the bride: A rear view of Ayda's extraordinary layered gown


Williams, it seems, decided that he, his girlfriend and three friends should hire jet skis and ride them all the way from the coastal resort Marina del Rey to Catalina Island, 33 miles away.

The reason for the jaunt, he explained, was so they could look below the waves for signs of marine aliens or USOs (unidentified submerged objects - the underwater equivalent of UFOs).

It was as a result of that bizarre trip that the couple initially decided to get hitched on Catalina Island, although in the event the ceremony was moved to Williams's garden after news leaked out.

Then there was the summer holiday he insisted they take two years ago to stay for a week in a camper van at the ECETI ( Enlightened Contact with Extraterrestrial Intelligence) research centre in Washington State.

At the centre, founded by a former estate agent who claims he started seeing UFOs after a neardeath-experience, the couple joined other ET hunters photographing and logging what they believed to be alien activity in the night sky.

Those who know the couple say Miss Field has, apparently, become as immersed in this rather strange obsession as her famous partner.


Suited and booted: Robbie talks to his friends before the nuptials


Certainly, her failing acting career has not unduly impinged on her ability to indulge such whims.

Ayda, who has a degree in political science and gave up training to be a lawyer in a vain attempt to make a career as a stand-up comedienne, had some minor success in her first role in the U.S. soap Days of Our Lives.

Bizarrely, on discovering the part required her to play an Italian, the kooky Miss Field kept up the pretence that she actually was from Italy away from the set.

She even recorded her home answerphone message in an Italian accent, dropping the act only after a year when producers had her character killed off in a hail of bullets.

She went on to land television roles in Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, alongside Friends actor Matthew Perry, and as a weather girl in Back To You with ex-Frasier star Kelsey Grammer, but both shows were cancelled after just one series.

Unfortunately, a succession of raunchy photo shoots, wearing only her underwear in a series of American lads' mags, has not helped to revitalise her flatlining career.

So it's lucky she has been able to fall back on Robbie's considerable bank balance (soon to be boosted by the £75million said to be on offer for his reunion album and tour with Take That, the boy band he quit in 1995).

According to family friends, the singer known for hits including Angels and Millennium-has also been equally generous-to his wife's nearest and dearest.


Ready to party: Guests leaving the nearby Sunset Masquis Hotel to get a bus to Robbie and Ayda's wedding


He stepped in to offer her twice-married mother Gwen a room at his sprawling mansion earlier this year after the Los Angeles-based former film producer hit hard times and had to rent out her own home to cover the mortgage.

Robbie's friends also tell me he has been trying to open doors for Ayda' s younger half-brother Dylan, a foul-mouthed wanabe rapper who goes by the name D-Trus

Members of her family say half-Turkish Ayda - whose real surname is Evecan - has what can at best be described as a long-distance relationship with her father, who separated from her mother when Ayda and her sister Oyku were young.

Her father, who now lives back in Turkey, is not said to have been present at the wedding at the weekend and a Germany-based cousin of Ayda told me last night: 'Nobody has had any contact with her father for years. We have no idea where he is.'

Not that the newlyweds will let that spoil their happiness.

They live an essentially quiet life at home in LA, avoiding nightclubs to stay in watching DVDs. In fact, guests staying over often find themselves kicking their heels after the couple have gone up to bed as early as 9pm.

Williams's father Pete, who split with his wife Jan when their son was three, is a regular visitor. He is thrilled that his boy has finally settled down.

'Rob said he'd never get married, but I knew as soon as he introduced me to Ayda that she was the one who'd finally make him happy,' Pete told me recently.

The singer's millions of fans will, no doubt, join him in wishing this endearingly bonkers couple all the luck in the world.


source: dailymail