CNN) -- Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie married over the weekend in France, a representative for Jolie confirmed Thursday.
The couple, who are the
parents of six children, have been together for almost a decade. They
got married Saturday in a small, private ceremony in a chapel at Château
Miraval in the village of Correns.
Pitt and Jolie have been
the source of speculation about their relationship almost since the
beginning. Tongues first started wagging after the pair met on the set
of "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" in the summer of 2004, when Pitt was still
married to actress Jennifer Aniston.
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In January 2005, Pitt and Aniston announced that they were splitting. Aniston filed for divorce in March 2005.
The following month,
photos surfaced of Pitt, Jolie and her adopted son Maddox together in
Kenya. Jolie later adopted daughter Zahara from an orphanage in Ethiopia
and in early 2006 she announced that she and Pitt were expecting a
baby. Shortly thereafter, Pitt was granted the right to legally adopt
Maddox and Zahara.
Their daughter Shiloh was
born in May 2006 and son Pax was adopted from an orphanage in Vietnam
in March 2007. Jolie gave birth to twins Vivienne and Knox in July 2008.
The couple announced their engagement in 2012.
Pitt and Jolie recently told People that the wedding would be a family affair.
"We are discussing it
with the children and how they imagine it might be," Jolie said. "Which
is verging on hysterical, how kids envision a wedding...They will, in a
way, be the wedding planner. It's going to be Disney or paintball -- one
or the other!"
According to a statement
from the family "Angelina was walked down the aisle by her eldest sons
Maddox and Pax. Zahara and Vivienne threw petals, gathered from the
garden. Shiloh and Knox were the ring bearers."
"In the days before
coming to France, and as citizens of California, Brad and Angelina
filled out their paperwork and obtained a marriage licence from a local
judge, who also travelled to France to conduct the ceremony at Chateau
Miraval," the statement said. "They are therefore married under
Californian law."
The uniting of Pitt and Jolie in matrimony has been one of the most anticipated marriages in Hollywood. In 2006 Pitt told Esquire magazine
that he and Jolie would not marry until "everyone else in the country
who wants to be married is legally able." He reaffirmed their commitment
to marriage equality in a 2011 interview with People.
"Thanks to the tireless
work of so many, someday soon this discrimination will end and every
American will be able to enjoy their equal right to marriage," Pitt said
in a statement to the magazine following the legalization of same-sex
marriage in New York State.
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