Google founder marries on private island

Necker Island, British Virgin Islands -- Google co-founder Larry Page's wedding on a private island off Virgin Gorda in the British Virgins this weekend featured tight security and fake palm trees.

The bride is Lucy Southworth, a graduate student at Stanford University. Page dropped out of Stanford graduate school to build Google, The Independent reported.

The couple were to tie the knot on Necker Island, owned by Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Atlantic Airlines and the rest of the Virgin empire, who was to double as best man.

Because Necker Island only sleeps 28, most guests were to stay on Virgin Gorda, where hotels were reportedly booked solid months ago.

The Web site Digg posted photographs supplied by a charter boat captain that showed a tent equipped with air-conditioning and security cameras erected at the water's edge. The captain also captured a photo of artificial palms, apparently planted for the wedding because real palm trees on the sandy shore tend to wash away.

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and his wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., were reportedly invited. But Bill Clinton was in South Carolina campaigning for Hillary Clinton while she was in Iowa campaigning for the Democratic Party presidential nomination.

Former Vice President Al Gore was also invited, but he was in Stockholm to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

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