PAUL ON THE RUN

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Sir Paul's wedding will be just a small family affair (In contrast to the £1.5m he lavished on his wedding to Heather)

By Ben Todd and Simon Cable
Last updated at 1::49 AM on 16th September 2011
Sir Paul McCartney will marry his American fiancee at the same London venue in which he wed late wife Linda more than 40 years ago, the Daily Mail can reveal.
The former Beatle posted banns at Westminster Register Office, meaning he could marry Nancy Shevell there as soon as next month. His fiancee has said it will be a ‘small family affair’ in contrast to the lavish £1.5 million ceremony when he married second wife Heather Mills.
Sir Paul and heiress Miss Shevell, 51, arrived in person to hand in the ‘notices’ earlier this week. They were posted by officials on Wednesday evening. Legally, the couple have a year from October 1 to marry in the venue, which is based in Marylebone Town Hall and is more commonly known as Marylebone Register Office. If they decide to wed elsewhere, they have to post new banns.
The 69-year-old — who divorced Heather Mills in 2008 — is expected to marry next month. All couples are required to give 16 days notice of their intention to marry.
The banns, signed by Superintendent Registrar Alison Cathcart, list the couple as ‘James Paul McCartney’ and ‘Nancy Shevell’ and add that both parties have had a ‘previous marriage dissolved’. The banns also state that Sir Paul has been living at his London address, in St John’s Wood, for ‘more than a month’. He bought the house for £40,000 in 1965.
Miss Shevell is listed as living at the address, close to Lord’s cricket ground, for just ‘nine days’. On the document, Sir Paul describes his profession as a ‘business executive’ while his future wife — a multi-millionaire from her family transport business — says she is an ‘executive’.
The couple have a choice of four marriage rooms at the Town Hall, which is close to Abbey Road studios where The Beatles recorded much of their work.

Happy: Paul McCartney and Nancy Shevell plan to marry at the Marylebone Register Office within a year

The Reception Room is the largest, with wood-panelled walls and an elaborate corniced ceiling. It holds 100 guests and is described as ‘perfect for anyone wishing to make a grand entrance’.
More intimate options are The Yellow Room, The Blue Room or The Purple Room.
The engagement was announced in May when Sir Paul presented her with a vintage 1925 Cartier engagement solitaire diamond ring, reported to have cost him £400,000.

Venue: Sir Paul posted banns at Westminster Register Office, based inside Marylebone Town Hall, pictured, meaning he could marry Nancy Shevell there as soon as next month

The corridors inside the register office are less than glamorous. Right, the notices of marriage board which has details of Sir Paul's marriage

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Plans: The details of the former Beatle's marriage notice to Nancy were seen posted publicly in the hall

At the time, Miss Shevell revealed it was ‘a total surprise’ when Sir Paul proposed.
When asked about the wedding, she replied: ‘Small. Just our families. I don’t know the exact date.
‘Don’t ask what I’ll wear. How dressy do you get to stand before a Justice of the Peace in his chambers — which is what we’re going to do?’
Sir Paul married Linda Eastman in Marylebone on March 12, 1969. Hundreds of fans gathered outside to catch a glimpse of the couple as they arrived with the bride’s daughter Heather, then six, from a previous marriage.
Police had to fend off tearful girls distraught that the last bachelor Beatle was tying the knot. Linda was four months pregnant and their daughter Mary was born that August.
In June last year, Mary maintained the family link to the register office when she married her second husband, writer and director Simon Aboud, there.
Sir Paul and Linda had two other children Stella, 40, and son James, 34.
They enjoyed one of the most famously happy relationships in showbusiness before she died of breast cancer in April 1998, aged just 56.
Sir Paul and Miss Shevell started dating in 2007, after she separated from first husband Bruce Blakeman. She has a son, Arlen, 19, from that marriage.
It will be Sir Paul’s third marriage. He wed former model Miss Mills in an extravagant  ceremony in St Salvator’s Church at the 17th century Castle Leslie in Glaslough, Ireland in 2002.

Sir Paul's marriage to his first wife Linda, left, was also a low-key affair while his wedding to second wife Heather Mills was a £1.5m extravaganza

In stark contrast to the simplicity of both his first marriage and his forthcoming ceremony, his wedding to Miss Mills was estimated to have cost £1.5million and there were more than 300 guests.
Sir Paul and Miss Mills – who had lost a leg below the knee after being hit by a police motorcycle in 1993 — had a daughter Beatrice, now seven.
They separated in May 2006. Following a bitter divorce battle, Miss Mills won  a settlement of £24.3 million.
Since then, Sir Paul — estimated to be worth £495 million — has kept the UK as his main home to be close to his youngest child.
Last night, a spokesman for the star declined to comment.