Actor Johnny Depp and long-time girlfriend Vanessa Paradis have finally decided to marry in France.
The couple feel compelled to tie the knot after enduring their nearly 8-year-old daughter Lily-Rose‘s recent battle with an E. coli infection, a source said.
The pirates of the Caribbean star and Paradis were at their daughter’s bedside while in London, where Depp was filming — Sweeney Todd.
Depp refused to return to the set of his latest film Sweeney Todd in London until she was out of danger, forcing filming to be stopped.
Depp and Paradis are expected to marry during the summer in a chapel within the 50-acre grounds of their home in the village of Plan de la Tour, about an hour from St. Tropez in the south of France.
The couple, who have been together for eight years and have two children, are understood to be planning a discreet ceremony in the south of France where they live.
The couple have been living mainly in Richmond, Surrey this year while Depp fulfils his filming commitments but they make frequent trips to their palatial French villa.
There’s no paparazzi. He can just be a normal person. It’s no surprise that they want to celebrate in the privacy of their home.
According to French law — the couple must obtain legal consent from the mayor to marry. Once the formalities are over couples are then free to have a religious ceremony.
