Justin Timberlake will marry longtime love Jessica Biel just outside Naples, Italy, this week, Page Six can exclusively reveal.
Sources say the couple have chosen a tiny town near the city for their nuptials, a location that “means a lot to both of them,” we are told.
One source said: “The wedding is happening outside of Naples in a tiny town this week. It is their favorite place, a location that is very special to them. There will be a few hundred guests, and the maid of honor will be Jessica’s longtime best friend, Lindsay Ratowsky.
“Jessica’s stylist, Estee Stanley, who is also Justin’s partner in his home décor business HomeMint, has been helping to plan the wedding,” our source continued.
“A private plane was flown out of New York to take guests to Italy including both their publicists. But the event has been shrouded in a lot of secrecy, and not even the guests were told the exact location or day of the wedding before they left.”
Guests expected include both Justin and Jessica’s families, as well as close friends including music producer Timbaland. Celebrations kicked off on Tuesday and a large fireworks display followed yesterday.
In April, Timberlake, 31, and Biel, 30, were spotted scouting for wedding locations, including a stop at Francis Ford Coppola’s breathtaking Palazzo Margherita in Bernalda, a small hilltop town 125 miles from Naples. The Palazzo was where Sofia Coppola wed Phoenix rocker Thomas Mars in August 2011.
According to reports, Biel and Timberlake first fell in love at the 2008 wedding of her friend Beverley Mitchell and accountant Michael Cameron in Ravello, 35 miles from Naples, on the Amalfi Coast. Biel, one of Mitchell’s “7th Heaven” sisters, was a bridesmaid.
The pair got engaged last December after five years of dating, when Timberlake popped the question during a vacation in Jackson Hole, Wyo. Reps for both Biel and Timberlake didn’t get back to us last night.