AS noisy helicopters hovered overhead, the superstar and his fiancee tied the knot in a 17th-century chapel in front of 300 family and friends Tuesday afternoon. They then treated their guests to a night of live music, fireworks, champagne and vegetarian food.As the newlyweds and their guests feasted on Indian delicacies in large tents on the Castle Leslie estate, McCartney’s spokesman, Geoff Baker, issued a statement about the ceremony to the media waiting outside along with hundreds of fans.The bride, wearing a fitted ecru lace dress she designed herself, carried a bouquet of 11 pink McCartney roses — named for her new husband — and two peonies, Baker said. McCartney was decked out in a brown, wool three-piece suit designed by Richard James of Britain.Mills entered the ancient church to the strains of Heather, a song McCartney wrote for his recent album. As the beaming pair walked down the aisle, a wedding march McCartney wrote for the 1966 movie The Family Way was played on the organ, Baker said.McCartney’s brother Mike was the best man for the ceremony. Among the audience were McCartney’s children from his first marriage, Stella, Mary and James, and his stepdaughter, Heather.The large crowd outside could only guess when the ceremony — scheduled for 4 p.m. — began. The ringing of church bells more than an hour later indicated that McCartney and Mills had been wed. A double rainbow appeared over the castle then.Media interest had reached fever pitch as newspapers speculated about every detail, including a guest list that some said included rock veterans Elton John, Eric Clapton and Ringo Starr, the only other surviving Beatle.McCartney, 59, and Mills, 34, had tried to keep the location of their wedding a secret. But when word slipped out, they good-naturedly appeared outside the castle walls Monday, speaking briefly to the crowd but giving few details of the nuptials.(SD-Agencies)

　　Paul McCartney broke millions of teenage hearts in the Swinging Sixties when he married photographer Linda Eastman. But he almost forgot to buy a wedding ring for his big day in 1969. The best man was an hour late and none of the Beatles was invited to the simple ceremony in a London register office. McCartney and Eastman ended up having one of the happiest marriages in show business, rarely spending a night apart. Paul was heartbroken when Linda died of breast cancer in April 1998. A year later, he met Heather Mills, a model who had lost a leg in a collision with a police motorbike. Their friendship blossomed into romance. McCartney was overjoyed: “I’m lucky to have found a good woman who is strong like Linda, and beautiful and positive and funny.” Finally they managed to get married in private on the grounds of a remote Irish castle Tuesday.