BEAMING from ear to ear, just-married Sir Paul McCartney yesterday said of his blushing new bride Nancy Shevell: “I love her so, so much.”
The 69-year-old, now hitched for the third time, told one guest at his wedding reception: “She is perfection. I’m so happy.”
The former Beatle then made an emotional speech to the star-studded crowd who had gathered in the garden of his £5million home.
Guests, including former bandmate Ringo Starr and his Bond girl wife Barbara Bach, Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood and musician Jools Holland, cheered as he spoke lovingly of the US heiress, 51.
One guest said: “Paul was in such good spirits and looked very, very proud indeed. His love for Nancy clearly runs very deep indeed.”
The groom, whose best man was brother Mike, even sang a specially written song which left his new wife close to tears.
He was also expected to perform Let It Be – which he sang during one of their first holidays together in Morocco three years ago – and his Wings track, Let Me Roll It.
The latter was chosen because it’s Nancy’s favourite and contains the lyric: “My heart is like a wheel/Let me roll it/Let me roll it to you.”
There was a bit of deja vu for McCartney — he married his first wife, Linda Eastman, at the same place in 1969, breaking the hearts of teenage girls throughout much of the world.
Details of the ceremony have not been released. Press reports suggest McCartney's younger brother Mike served as best man and his young daughter Beatrice as flower girl.
A tent had been set up at McCartney's house nearby in the St. John's Wood neighborhood, and party decorations were delivered for a reception after the ceremony.
McCartney's traditional good luck seemed to hold — gloomy skies brightened as the events unfolded. Rain early in the day had stopped.
Shevell, 51, is McCartney's third wife. They were engaged earlier this year. The couple met in the Hamptons in Long Island, New York, shortly after the singer's divorce from Heather Mills in 2008.
It is Shevell's second marriage. She seemed relaxed and radiant as she arrived for the ceremony, waving easily to the crowd.
Shevell, who is independently wealthy, was married for more than 20 years to attorney Bruce Blakeman and serves on the board of New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority. She also is a vice president of a lucrative New Jersey-based trucking company owned by her father.
McCartney married Eastman, a talented photographer who specialized in rock and roll portraits, at the height of the hippie era, when the Beatles were at the apex of their global fame.
The marriage of the Beatle known as "the cute one" caused young women and girls to burst into tears outside the registry office, and broke the hearts of uncounted fans throughout the world.
While many rock and roll marriages from that era broke down, the McCartneys enjoyed a long, happy marriage for many years, raising four children and spending virtually every night together except when McCartney was briefly jailed in Japan on marijuana charges.
Linda played and sang in his successful post-Beatles band Wings — even though critics thought she added little to the ensemble — and used her marriage to a Beatle to promote vegetarianism and other causes that were also backed by McCartney.
Her life was cut short by breast cancer in 1998, leaving McCartney adrift.
Mills then entered the picture. They married in 2002 at a gala affair at an Irish castle, and soon after had a daughter. But the marriage collapsed fairly quickly and ended with a bitter divorce in 2008.
Mills publicly accused McCartney of cruelty and sought a massive $250 million divorce settlement, but the judge sided with McCartney, calling her claims exorbitant.
The British public, enamored of the sunny Sir Paul since his early Beatle days, also sided with the singer.
The case offered a rare glimpse into the magnitude of McCartney's fortune, which includes songwriting royalties from a raft of classic tunes, many co-written with the late John Lennon, who would have turned 71 on Sunday.
Court papers filed by McCartney at the time indicated he had a net worth of approximately $800 million, including a valuable collection of art works including paintings by Picasso and Renoir along with luxury real estate holdings and sound music investments going well beyond his own works.
The impending marriage of one of the most enduring figures in British cultural life sparked Britain's fevered tabloid headline writers to try to come up with new puns on Sunday based on the Beatles' memorable song titles.
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