Now the other Google founder is planning a secret wedding

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(11-12) 23:29 Pacific Time San Francisco --
Google Inc. co-founder Larry Page is planning to marry his girlfriend, Lucy Southworth, at a ceremonial next calendar month that is steeped in secrecy.

The event is scheduled for the weekend of Dec. Eight at an unrevealed location, The History have learned.

Page, 34, founded Google while a Leland Stanford University computing machine scientific discipline doctorial pupil and is now among the world's wealthiest individuals, with a luck around $20 billion. He is, by a broad margin, Silicon Valley's richest bachelor.

Many current and former Google employees are expected to go to the wedding, along with Richard Branson, laminitis of the Virgin concern empire, and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, according to beginnings familiar with the invitee list. Former Frailty President Aluminum Al Gore was also invited but said he can't do it because he will be receiving the Alfred Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremonial in Oslo, Norway, on Dec. 10.

"Larry Page allowed that, on the listing of excuses, that was acceptable," Al Gore said in an interview.

But Al Gore said he's hoping to do an visual aspect at the wedding ceremony using one of the basics of the modern, high-tech world: picture conferencing.

It's known that Southworth was a biomedical information science doctorial pupil at Stanford, although it is ill-defined whether she have graduated. She have dated Page for well over a year.

A Google spokesman declined to comment.

Rumors of Page's wedding ceremony were published in The Chronicle, followed last calendar month by a more than elaborate business relationship in a Luck magazine blog, but the publication quickly removed the post. The point suggested that the ceremonial was to be held abroad because attendants were asked to convey a passport. A spokeswoman for Luck did not supply inside information about why the posting was deleted.

Six calendar months ago, Google's other founder, Sergey Brin, married longtime girlfriend Anne Wojcicki, a biotech entrepreneur. They successfully kept the ceremony, held in the Caribbean, a secret until after the wedding ceremony was over.

Google later invested $3.9 million in Wojcicki's company, 23andMe.

Southworth and Page are poised to go participants on the international societal scene by virtuousness of his wealthiness and connections. They've been seen at political parties around the Bay Area, including a dinner for Amour Propre Carnival editor Graydon Howard Carter and his wife, Anna, hosted by jet-setter Denise Nathan Hale at the Ritz-Carlton inch October 2006, and in Film Industry at the Amour Propre Carnival post-Oscar political party in February this year.

Hale, who numbers Princess Michael of Kent, State Of Israel Philharmonic music director Zubin Mehta and histrion Michael Caine among her friends and have watched many a high-profile marriage come up and go, gives Southworth and Page high Marks - and hope.

"They are a very-well matched couple," Nathan Hale said. "She's stunning and bright, and he's very attractive and bright."

"What else make you want? They're very much in love, and they're going to be the adjacent great couple to make great things together. It's a great combination."

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Chronicle staff author Cecilia Lope De Vega contributed to this report. E-mail the authors at , and .