a beautiful rustic wedding
Sofia Coppola enjoys la dolce vita in Italy with fiancé Thomas Mars as the countdown to her wedding beginsBy Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 11:56 PM on 24th August 2011
Her wedding may be taking place this weekend, but Sofia Coppola is showing no signs of nerves.
The 40-year-old film director couldn't stop smiling as she strolled through Bernalda in southern Italy last night, with her fiancé Thomas Mars and four-year-old daughter Romy.
Mars carried the blonde youngster on his shoulders while Sofia walked alongside looking chic in a stylish black dress and strappy sandals.
The family were joining the crowds at the religious feast of San Bernardino festival where Sofia was presented with a special honour a few days before she ties the knot at her family's villa on Saturday.
According to Woman's Wear Daily, the long term couple will have a civil ceremony at the family villa, belonging to Sofia's father Francis Ford Coppola.
The small village is the home town of Sofia's great grandparents and the couple are said to be celebrating their nuptials in the villa's garden.
Sofia has one of the best styles, simple and chic she always looks perfectly fresh and put
together.
Francis Ford Coppola bought the Palazzo Margherita property a few years ago and will be at the wedding along with his daughter's close friends and family.
The Godfather director's great nephew Gaetano Russo told the website that he plans to screen scenes from both the bride and her father's movies on the façades of 10 buildings throughout the village.
Sofia first met Thomas when they worked together on The Virgin Suicides soundtrack in the late 1990s.
Thomas's band Phoenix has provided music for several of Sofia's films including Lost in Translation and Somewhere.
Along with Romy, they are also parents to an 18-month-old daughter Cosima.
This will be the second marriage for Sofia - she was previously wed to film director Spike Jonze from 1999 - to 2003.
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