Nicole & Keith's Fairy Tale Wedding

06/29/2006 at 12:00 PM EDT

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The first thing guests noticed at Nicole Kidman's June 25 wedding to Keith Urban were the candles: more than 1,000 of them, all white and flickering inside the stone walls of Cardinal Cerretti Memorial Chapel near Sydney. "It was like you were walking into a story book – a fairy tale," says an attendee. Then the real magic began: As an organist played the first notes of Wagner's "Bridal Chorus," spotlights illuminated Kidman, ethereal in a long veil and ivory silk-chiffon gown by Nicolas Ghesquière for Balenciaga, and her father, Antony, who escorted his daughter down the aisle while a beaming Urban looked on. "The spotlights lit Nicole up like this angel," says the guest. "Keith just seemed in awe."

As for the bride, "while she was walking down with her dad, she looked like she was concentrating really hard. But as soon as she stepped up to where Keith was, she had a huge smile, and it was like it was just the two of them in their own little world."