Russian billionaire heiress Rybolovleva holds wedding ceremony on Skorpios

The ceremony, with some 50 hand-picked guests attending, started at 18:00 in the island's small chapel of Panagitsa where Jackie Onassis had married shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis 47 years earlier. A reception on the cruise ship O'MEGA will follow.

Officiating at the wedding were the Metropolitan of Lefkas and Ithaca Theophilos and the Archbishop of Berlin, Germany and Great Britain Markos, who is a personal friend of the Russia tycoon. The couple were joined in a civil marriage in Geneva on October 14 but wanted to have a religious ceremony as well.

Stringent security has been imposed around Skorpios for the marriage, while the local coast guard has also been asked to assist. According to locals from Lefkas, the town of Nydri opposite Skorpios has been literally inundated by press and photojournalists.