14 DAY TRIAL // This weekend is The Weekend for Google's 34-year-old co-founder, Larry Page, who is going to settle down from the crazy bachelor life, next to his soon-to-be wife, Lucy Southworth, 27 years old, a biomedical informatics (information processing) doctoral student at Stanford.
After dating for about a year, they will be "joining their destinies", as many say about what happens at weddings, on the 8th of December on a tiny Caribbean island that is owned by Page's best man, Richard Branson, the billionaire owner of Virgin Group. In case you feel like going over there via Google Earth, the island's name is Branson's Necker Island, but I doubt that imagery will be available via the service mentioned.
The planning took about six months in advance, so it must have been love at first sight, or first date. Take six months out of a year and you're left with what's basically enough time to start feeling comfortable next to the other, or at least that's the way I see things.
The hotels on neighboring island Virgin Gorda have been booked for this wedding and "boats and ferries for hundreds of guests were ordered to ship them from Little Dix Bay to the ceremony," as the New York Post's sources said. Among the guests, U2's front man, Bono, is said to be the most prominent, but when it's about Google, you just know that billionaires and many more will be popping by the dozen around there.
The New York Post's second source said that Page, who's estimated to be worth about $20 billion, is also springing for private planes to fly in guests from around the globe. "Planes are leaving from all over," said the insider. "One plane will leave from New York on Friday." Better make sure you're in it or else you will miss the party.