Rafael Nadal and Xisca Perello have been dating since 2005. But this weekend, the pair will finally be tying the knot in what is rumoured to be a star-studded event.
Xisca, 31, is currently a director of her fiancee’s charity, the Rafa Nadal Foundation, and the pair reportedly became engaged last year.
HELLO!’s sister publication HOLA! reported Rafael had popped the question during a romantic trip to Rome in May 2018.
Juan Carlos I, who was King of Spain until his abdication in 2014, is rumoured to be swinging by in a helicopter to witness the couple’s nuptials later today.
Retired tennis player and former world number one Carlos Moya is also expected to make an appearance.
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The pair will marry at La Fortaleza, an enormous estate which has been described as Spain’s most expensive property.
Owned by British peer Lord Lupton, the fortress was the backdrop of the 2016 BBC spy thriller The Night Manager, which starred Hugh Laurie.
And if the choice of venue wasn’t extravagant enough, it is believed the event will also be catered by Maca de Castro, a Michelin-starred chef.
Tomeu Catala, who has been named as the priest marrying Rafael and Xisca, told island paper Diario de Mallorca earlier this month: “Everyone of the weddings I have been involved in has been special and this one will be the same.
“I am just going to marry two people who love each other.”
Details surrounding the couple’s wedding have been kept tightly under wraps.
The Majorca Daily Bulletin reported Xisca had made a trip to Barcelona with her mother earlier this week.
It is thought the finishing touches were being made to her wedding dress, which was designed by Rosa Clará – an internationally renowned wedding dress design firm.
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At the moment, details surrounding Xisca’s wedding dress have yet to be released, so all eyes will be on the bride this weekend when she finally walks down the aisle.
Xisca is known to be intensely private, often not attending Rafael’s tennis events so as not to distract him.
The pair have no children of their own but Rafael has said in previous interviews he would love to be a father one day.
He told Argentine talk show Con Amigos Asi: “I would love to have children: boys, girls… I’m a person who loves kids and I’m a family guy.”
However, with such a busy tennis career, Rafael is not opposed to waiting for the right time to start a family.
He added: “But also I tell you that the reality is, the years keep passing, I would like to start to do all of this when my sporting life determines it.”
“I think it’s also above all about looking after the kids.
“I don’t know if it [travelling throughout the year when you have children] is ideal.”
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