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Rachel Stevens' wedding: the Jews talked...

OK! Magazine made every guest attending the wedding of Rachel Stevens and Alex Bourne sign a confidentiality agreement - but you can’t gag the Jews.

August 6, 2009 13:01
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ByJan Shure, Jan Shure

1 min read

OK! Magazine may have made every guest attending the wedding of singer Rachel Stevens and Alex Bourne sign a confidentiality agreement — but you can’t gag the Jews.

Even though guests’ mobile phones and cameras were banned, the JC can report — four full days ahead of OK!’s “exclusive” pictures and reports of Rachel’s nuptials — that the Strictly Come Dancing star was an hour late for her chuppah at top London hotel, Claridge’s.

The couple's guests sweltered as the bride kept them waiting before Rabbi Geoffrey Hyman, minister of Ilford Synagogue, performed the ceremony surrounded by the couple’s family – Rachel's mother Linda, and brothers Lee and Jason, and Alex's parents, long-time Woodside Park residents, Suzanne and Ashley.

Rabbi Hyman was invited to officiate by Alex, who was taught his barmitzvah by the rabbi when he was minister at Woodside Park from 1986 to 1992. In preparation for the event, the couple had Friday-night dinner at Rabbi Hyman's Redbridge home last month. Ensuring it was a traditional choral chuppah was leading chazan Steven Robins..