Luther’s Idris says ‘I do’ in three-day Moroccan extravaganza
IDRIS ELBA broke the hearts of millions of fans yesterday when he wed US model Sabrina Dhowre at a lavish ceremony in Marrakesh.
Wearing a custom-made Ozwald Boateng suit, the Luther star, 46, married 30-year-old Sabrina at the exclusive Ksar CharBagh hotel in front of 150 guests, including Idris’s 17-year-old daughter Isan, who was a bridesmaid.
Diana Ross was also rumoured to be performing her best-known Motown hits at the newlyweds’ festival-themed party last night.
However, there were two notable absentees from the three-day celebration – Prince Harry and Meghan, who are in the UK waiting to become parents for the first time.
They made up for their absence by sending a £7,000 piece of art by the super-trendy Connor Brothers, as a wedding gift. The picture features a 1950sstyle romantic book cover of a glamorous woman next to the words: ‘Why fit in when you were born to stand out?’ The Connor Brothers first entered the art scene as Franklyn and Brendan Connor, elusive Missouri-born twins brought up within an extremist Christian cult.
However, it was later revealed this was a hoax and a pseudonym for the British artists James Golding and Mike Snelle.
It seems Harry and Meghan certainly missed out on quite a party. On Friday night guests were invited to attend a ‘colours of Souk’ dinner at the five-star Amanjena resort, just outside Marrakesh.
And – though it will come as no surprise to observers of Sabrina’s hen do in Utah, where she was pictured in a short silk dressing gown alongside nine friends – last night’s party was set to be huge.
Elba and Sabrina, who met on the set of film The Mountain Between Us in 2017, were to throw a huge ‘all-white’ festival-themed bash at
the Mandarin Oriental, where rooms cost up to £10,000 per night. And Sabrina was certainly dressed for the occasion. The former Miss Vancouver wore two exquisite dresses by Vera Wang, a Bardotstyle gown for the ceremony and a pearl-embroidered number finished with couture lace for the reception. Her make-up was by Charlotte Tilbury while the photos were taken by US snapper Sean Thomas.
However, to see the full wedding album fans will have to buy the July edition of Vogue after editor Edward Enninful bought the rights to their wedding.