Will George and Amal live happily ever after? Am I impossibly cynical if I say, possibly not?
The wedding week-end was mesmerizing, absolutely, George appeared charming and very happy, Amal wore her expensive and stylish outfits with elan, they were surrounded by a sincerely warm and loving circle of friends, and both sets of still-married parents were there. All good.
Still, if they were a regular, not-famous couple I would say that I see a few potential problems. The age gap. (17 years) The culture gap. (He's American, she's Lebanese and grew up in Europe.) The education gap. (She's a lawyer who speaks three languages; he's... not.) They only dated for a few months before getting engaged. (Met in October, 2013, engaged in April, 2014, married in August, 2014). He's a rich, famous and possibly somewhat spoiled movie star, she's... not.
They also spent a boatload of money on the wedding. ($1.6 million according to people.com.) Lots of celebrity couples before them have done the same and most of those couples are not still together. I've pondered the possibility of creating some kind of after-the-divorce good marriage/bad marriage index, using, possibly, the amount of money spent on the wedding, multiplied by the number of quotes from friends about how perfect they are for each other and how happy they look together, supplemented by quotes from the couple about how they're going to be together forever, then squared by the number of months/years til they break up.
No matter how glamorous it looks I've come to believe that it's probably not easy to be married to a very rich, very attractive, very famous movie star. I'll be watching to see if this one goes the distance.
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