Emily Smith

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George Clooney planning Venice wedding with Amal

George Clooney is planning a romantic Italian wedding in Venice with fiancée Amal Alamuddin, Page Six can exclusively reveal.

The Hollywood star and prominent human rights lawyer Alamuddin are hoping to marry at a palace in the historic city in September, we are told. The couple was seen dining in the floating city in late May after touring possible wedding venues.

A source said, “George and Amal want to be married in Italy, but they need a location that offers them and their guests privacy.”

We are told that Clooney — who intends to marry Amal exactly one year after they met — decided against a wedding at his stunning Lake Como estate because it doesn’t offer enough privacy, and he is concerned the attention a wedding would attract would inconvenience the locals and neighbors.

Clooney, 53, and Alamuddin were spotted dining at Venetian restaurant Da Ivo late last month, accompanied by Clooney’s bodyguard and his girlfriend.

According to a report, they toasted with Prosecco and white wine, then the group enjoyed sautéed shellfish, smoked tuna, mussel soup, crayfish and artichoke risotto and charcoal-grilled sea bass before departing in a motorboat from a back pier close to the restaurant. The next morning, they flew out of Venice airport by helicopter.

Clooney also spent time in the city of love when he opened the 2013 Venice Film Festival with his and Sandra Bullock’s Oscar-winning movie “Gravity” and was spotted piloting a water taxi on the canals.

La Nuova di Venezia newspaper reported that after seeing Clooney aboard the boat, local lawyer Mario D’Elia alerted Venice police, asking them to find out whether Clooney has a nautical license or a permit to pilot the water taxi. But naturally, Clooney was able to charm himself out of trouble and no action was taken.

A spokesman for Clooney didn’t get back to us last night.