George Clooney's Lebanese father-in-law said on Sunday that his daughter Amal Alamuddin's wedding to the Hollywood heartthrob was "very good news" for the turmoil-ridden Middle East.
"The wedding was more than perfect," Ramzi Alamuddin told AFP by telephone from Venice.
Clooney and his Lebanese-British lawyer bride married on Saturday at a star-studded private wedding, although they are expected to officially tie the knot on Monday.
Ramzi Alamuddin said the wedding was a "grand" but "simple" affair, with close friends and relatives attending an event he described as "good news".
"It is very good news among the bad news we are living now," he said.
The celebrity nuptials come as unrest grips much of the Middle East, where a US-led coalition is staging air strikes on the jihadist Islamic State group in Lebanon's neighbour Syria and in Iraq.
Saturday's ceremony also coincided with Al-Qaeda's Syria franchise, Al-Nusra Front, threatening reprisals against the coalition which includes several Arab allies.
Other Lebanese agreed that the wedding was the only good news to have emerged from their problem-riddled Mediterranean nation.