The gossip magazines went into overdrive last week, as speculation Brad Pitt was planning to marry Angelina Jolie in a secret Saturday ceremony reached fever pitch.
Food and champagne were seen arriving at the couple’s $50 million French chateau, a marquee was erected in the grounds and Brad’s parents flew in from the US.
But the promised day came and went without news of the much-awaited nuptials.
Now, the local mayor Mickael Latz has revived hopes the wedding of the year will in fact take place, saying this Saturday (August 18) is likely the real date.
“It’s a far more likely date,” Latz, who is the mayor of Correns, told the UK’s Sunday Express.
Brad and Angelina announced their engagement in April after seven years and six children together.
They have remained tight-lipped about their wedding plans, but Chateau Miraval has long been suggested as a potential location.
It is thought the couple will wed in a private chapel in the estate’s grounds in front of a handful of guests and their children Maddox, 10, Pax, eight, Zahara, seven, Shiloh, five, and three-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne.
It will be Angelina’s third marriage — she was married to Jonny Lee Miller from 1996 to 1999 and Billy Bob Thornton from 2000 to 2003.
Brad was famously married to Jennifer Aniston when he met Angelina, and caused great scandal when he divorced her in 2005.
