Lleyton, Bec bunker down for big day
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After two tie breakers and a whirlwind romance, Australian tennis champ Lleyton Hewitt will wed former Home and Away star Bec Cartwright today.
The high-profile couple will exchange vows at Sydney's best address, the Opera House, in front of 200 of their closest friends and family.
Hewitt's coach Roger Rasheed will be groomsman and the Port Adelaide football club's chaplain, Pastor Brandon Chaplin, will conduct the ceremony.
Guests will enjoy pre-wedding drinks at the InterContinental Hotel in the city's centre, before boarding buses which will transport them to the Opera House for the nuptials.
Anyone caught carrying a camera or mobile phone will have it confiscated.
After the ceremony, guests will board a boat.
The location of the reception has been kept under wraps, but it is believed it will be held at Taronga Zoo.
A huge media pack is expected to assemble outside the Opera House.
The couple, who sold the rights to their engagement story and the story on Cartwright's pregnancy, have not signed any exclusive deals for their wedding.
The dress
The pregnant bride-to-be had her final fitting on Tuesday with renowned fashion designer Alexander Perry, according to media reports.
It is believed Cartwright will wear a flowing, white baby-doll dress.
She and her mother are now bunkered down at the InterContinental Hotel, avoiding the media's spotlight and awaiting the big day.
The wedding caps off a big year for Australia's answer to Posh and Becks.
Hewitt and Cartwright became engaged in late January, only six weeks after they began dating.
Hewitt proposed to his summertime sweetheart on the night of his loss to Russian Marat Safin in the final of the Australian Open.
Then, just days after the Logies in May, Cartwright shocked the nation by announcing that she was expecting their first child.
The 21-year-old award-winning actress also announced that she was leaving Home and Away, in which she has played Hayley Lawson since 1998.
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