Google co-founder Page getting hitched today

Opinion
Dec 8, 20071 min

Google co-founder Larry Page, one of the world’s most eligible bachelors in no small part to his Forbes list-worthy $20 billion or so net worth (though he is only taking $1 as salary this year ), is said to be tying the knot this weekend at a star-studded wedding ceremony on a private island.

The 34-year-old, who started Google with Sergey Brin, is marrying Lucy Southworth, a 27-year-old Stanford University student, according to British newspaper reports.

This is no virtual wedding either.  Sir Richard Branson . Among the 600 or so attendees expected are oft-Googled bigshots such as Bono of U2 and Bill and Hillary Clinton.

The wedding ceremony is being held on a Carribean island owned by

Some are taking Page, who has been talking up renewable energy at the “Do no evil” company, to task because of what appears to be a very un-Green wedding extravaganza that will include all sorts of shuttling of guests from here to there. 

Others are asking why the heck any billionaire would get married and risk their fortunes for love. 

Brin married earlier this year.

Oh, and ladies, don’t get any ideas about Page’s sidekick.