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Gale-force winds bear down on Googler's wedding

Owen Thomas · 12/10/07 02:42PM

In the neutral parlance of stormtrackers, the pattern of rain and winds now hitting the British Virgin Islands is just a "tropical disturbance." But I have to think Google cofounder Larry Page, who married Lucy Southworth yesterday on Richard Branson's Necker Island, is more than disturbed by it. Gale-force winds and heavy rains will make it difficult if not impossible to shuttle from island to island, and conditions may be unsafe for helicopters and small private jets to take off. Hundreds of celebrity guests and top Google executives may well be stranded.

That was the weekend that wasn't

Owen Thomas · 12/10/07 04:17AM

I should have taken my colleague Paul Boutin's recap of the week as a warning. Normally I take the weekend off, and I shouldn't have made an exception. But that Lucy Southworth is just so geekily adorable in this Stanford-office photo I felt obligated to cover her wedding. If it happened.

Stormy start to Larry and Lucy's marriage

Owen Thomas · 12/09/07 09:56PM

So how are Mr. and Mrs. Larry Page faring? The coconut telegraph linking Valleywag's Virgin Islands correspondents with headquarters in San Francisco is down. Our sources who promised us an inside look at Larry Page's wedding to Lucy Southworth, believed to be taking place right now on Richard Branson's Necker Island, have been silent since this morning. And now I think I know why: What may be a tropical storm system is forming northeast of the archipelago. After the jump, a shot taken today by a Valleywag informant showing the extremely windy conditions there.

Larry and Lucy didn't get married Saturday

Owen Thomas · 12/09/07 12:46PM

Yesterday was a beautiful day in the British Virgin Islands, as you can see from this sunset snap submitted to us. And strangely quiet. That's because, we hear from a source working the festivities, Larry Page and Lucy Southworth didn't get married.

I present to you Mr. and Mrs. Larry Page

Owen Thomas · 12/09/07 12:34AM

If rumors are correct, Larry Page and Lucy Southworth should be married by now. One hopes that they're back to a suite on Richard Branson's Necker Island resort, recapping their mile-high makeout session from last year. Update: Or not! The latest rumor from the coconut telegraph: The wedding is Sunday, not Saturday. One hopes the future Pages are practicing for tomorrow, at any rate.

"Webgemeinde baffles" at Googler wedding

Owen Thomas · 12/08/07 07:58PM

Back when we had party correspondent Megan McCarthy to kick around, I made a point of assigning her all interviews with the German press. But now Leggy's headed to Wired, so when Der Spiegel called to interview me about Larry and Lucy's wedding, I had to handle it myself. And I think I acquitted myself pretty well. I think. The Google translation was a little unclear. "Webgemeinde baffles," indeed. Larry, when you get back, could you get someone working on this?

Page's pissoir palatial, portable

Owen Thomas · 12/08/07 07:39PM

At last, intimate details of Google cofounder Larry Page's wedding today are drifting in. How intimate? Well, let's put its this way: We know where Page is going to do his business. Seems the multibillionaire won't settle for a mere Porta-Potty. No, according to a source on the scene, he's contracted with Royal Restrooms to provide a "Regal Portable Restroom Experience." After the jump, a shot of the Googler's toilets.

Larry and Lucy's wedding makes the "Today Show"

Owen Thomas · 12/08/07 02:37PM


Jim Goldman, CNBC's SIlicon Valley bureau chief, runs down everything we know about Google cofounder Larry Page's wedding today to Lucy Southworth. Yours truly makes a three-second appearance.

Clinton spokesman denies Googler wedding rumor

Owen Thomas · 12/08/07 02:01PM

Phil Singer, a spokesman for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, says neither she nor Bill will be at Larry Page and Lucy Southworth's wedding being held today on Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands. That's a shame. Richard Branson's Caribbean getaway is a lot warmer than Iowa, HIllary. And there are worse places to hit people up for campaign donations. Maybe she's just trying to avoid a photo op with the Bushes?

Leo DiCaprio, Johnny Depp rumored guests at Google wedding

Megan McCarthy · 12/07/07 07:40PM

We're getting more reports from the scene of this weekend's wedding between gummy Google cofounder Larry Page and yummy Stanford Ph.D. Lucy Southworth. Above, another picture of the wedding tent (click for a bigger version.) Is that an alt-energy windmill on the hill? How eco-conscious! After the jump, a vacationing tipster sends us more details of the goings-on in the Virgin Islands, including a rundown on rumored Hollywood guests.

Old media attempts to break up Larry and Lucy

Owen Thomas · 12/07/07 12:48PM

BusinessWeek is trying to call a halt to Larry and Lucy's wedding! We get that Google is killing your print-ad sales. We get that being dependent on Web searches for, say, half of your traffic or whatever scares the bejeezus out of you. But really, mainstream media, this is a low blow — trying to put a pause on marital bliss with a conveniently planted scare story on billionaire prenups?

Richard Branson, the best man Larry Page could find

Megan McCarthy · 12/06/07 04:00PM

British billionaire and Virgin founder Richard Branson is going to be the best man in this weekend's wedding of Google cofounder Larry Page and his fiancée, Lucy Southworth, according to Reuters. Really? Richard Branson? The loudmouth entrepreneur who named his business empire after his sexual status? He and Larry are that tight? Branson over Larry's brother Carl, who is also a successful entrepreneur? Not Sergey Brin, Larry's cofounder, who reportedly had Larry do the honors at his wedding? Our cynical opinion: Branson's status in the wedding party was most likely a quid pro quo for hosting their nuptials on his privately owned Necker Island. (Photo by David Thomson/AFP)

First pictures from Larry and Lucy's wedding

Megan McCarthy · 12/06/07 12:10PM

Pictured, above, is the reception tent for this weekend's nuptials of recent Stanford Ph.D. Lucy Southworth and her beau, Larry Page, the Google cofounder worth about $20 billion. A curious charter captain in the British Virgin Islands decided to take the boat for a spin around the wedding site — the Richard Branson-owned Necker Island — and took these shots of the preparations. The tent above has apparently been outfitted with air conditioning and security cameras, more clearly pictured in the image below. The captain also noted that it looked like workers were adding sand to the beach and placing fake plastic palm trees along a sandbar to give it that authentic tropical look, I guess. What happened to Larry and Lucy's eco-friendly bash? More pictures after the jump.

Google wedding details — eco-furniture, overcrowding, and Bono

Megan McCarthy · 12/05/07 05:00PM

New York gossip column Page Six has more details on this weekend's wedding of Google founder Larry Page and future Stanford Ph.D. Lucy Southworth. Even bilionaires have planning snafus. Logistics have turned nightmarish, to be expected when you cram 600 guests accustomed to penthouse suites and private jets onto a tiny island. The Southworth-Page nuptials, scheduled for Richard Branson's private Caribbean getaway, Necker Island, have taken over neighboring Virgin Gorda, a short boat trip away from the wedding site. Other details we've heard from a plugged-in tipster:

Frugal Google billionaire a serial teabagger

Tim Faulkner · 11/28/07 05:36PM

We already knew that David Cheriton, the Stanford professor who introduced Larry Page and Sergey Brin to the venture capitalists at Kleiner Perkins and who subsequently became a billionaire, was cheap. But we didn't fully realize the depths of his frugality. A Forbes piece on penny-pinching billionaires reveals that Cheriton not only refuses to pay for a Stanford parking permit, but he also reuses teabags. Gross. Furthermore, he still cuts his own hair. Doesn't Cheriton realize that Larry and Sergey will gladly provide their former college professor a free trim? (Photo courtesy of David Cheriton via Forbes)

Don't be evil — or use coal: Google's new energy initiative

Jordan Golson · 11/27/07 04:48PM

With a soaring stock price and fat bottom line, Google has plenty of time and money to move into other sectors. Today Google announced a new plan to develop renewable energy like solar. Cofounder Larry Page optimistically claims Google's "goal is to produce one gigawatt of renewable energy capacity that is cheaper than coal. We are optimistic this can be done in years, not decades." An admirable goal, to be sure, but what does this give the shareholders?

Joshua Stein · 11/19/07 11:40AM

Larry Page, the co-founder of Google and a man worth about 18.5 billion dollars, was turned away from Paul Sevigny's Beatrice Inn about two weeks ago, a very excited Nick Denton told us. In fact, we haven't seen him this excited since the Bush twins were turned away from Freemans. In the doorman's defense, while the Bush twins look like little George W's, Larry Page basically looks just like a dorky white dude. Any more information would be much appreciated. Google doesn't turn up anything on it, obviously.

Google boys seriously in love with biotech

Owen Thomas · 11/14/07 08:27PM

What are Sergey Brin and Larry Page really obsessed about? Look no further than their choice in lifemates, says Attila Csordas. Sergey Brin married 23andMe cofounder Anne Wojcicki — and also lent the company $2.6 million, which Google repaid when it invested $3.9 million in the company. Larry Page's fiancée, Lucy Southworth, is close to earning her Ph.D. — a feat neither Page nor Brin has accomplished. Her field of study is biomedical informatics, a field which harnesses high-powered computing for biotech research. Larry and Sergey made their billions on online advertising, a business the pair openly despised when they created the Google search engine. The heart has its own code, and in Larry and Sergey's case, I think it's DNA base pairs.