FIRST PUBLISHED: November 18, 2006 2:11 PM EST

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NEW YORK (PEOPLE)? Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are now husband and wife. The couple exchanged vows Saturday in a ceremony at the Odescalchi Castle in Lake Bracciano, Italy.

With a top-tier Hollywood guest list inside the castle, and thousands of fans, photographers and TV cameras watching from afar, Cruise and Holmes’s wedding capped off a whirlwind week in Italy with their families and celeb friends. Joining them for the celebration: Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, Brooke Shields and Chris Henchy, Victoria and David Beckham, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony, and Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy, among others.

Saturday’s wedding started on a damp note, with scattered rain throughout the morning. Holmes and 7-month-old daughter Suri were escorted into the castle under a cluster of green umbrellas. A little over an hour later, the groom was escorted from the Hassler hotel in Rome to Lake Bracciano 18 miles away. With the sun going down, candles lit up the perimeter of the 15th-century castle as limousines carrying the guests drove through the gates.

Fans and media were kept at a safe distance from the castle: Police checkpoints prevented anyone unauthorized from getting too close, and journalists were stationed in the nearby town square.

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