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With the "spiritual" and "indescribable" birth of baby Suri finally out of the way, Tom Cruise can concentrate on other matters. And we don't mean the frenetic promotion of "Mission: Impossible III," which, thanks to stumping stopovers this week in Rome, London and Paris, has meant he's been gone for nearly half of his "beautiful" daughter's very young life.
No, we're talking about finally taking Katie Holmes to be his lawfully wedded wife, in sickness and in health, in L. Ron and Xenu, until death (or expiration of the Church of Scientology's supposed billion-year contract) do they part.
"I love her and I can't wait to get married to her," Cruise enthused to the London Mirror at Tuesday's premiere in Leicester Square. "I can't wait to look at her and think she's all mine."
And yeah, we got a chill up our spine from that "all mine" line, too.
Anyhoo, according to the foot-dragging megastar, who in recent days has come down with an unfortunate case of sadly spiky bangs, "I want the wedding to be in a few months."
Tom was marching to a similar matrimonial drum in Rome on Monday, when he announced that he planned to hammer out the details of their long-promised aisle-walk (his Eiffel Tower proposal took place in June) when he returned home later this week.
"That stuff is actually going to happen in the next couple of weeks," he said (via Reuters). "We are going to decide where and when and how. Really whatever Kate wants, you know."
Of course, way back in September the twice-divorced A-lister announced to "Entertainment Tonight" that "big, big plans" were underway for the nuptials, which he predicted would take place in the summer or fall.
"The thing that I love about Kate is that she's an artist, so she actually loves ribbons and she makes cards and creates art," he gushed of his glassy-eyed fiancée. "She loves flowers, and she'll do her own floral arrangements. So it's going to be a lot of fun. It's going to be a celebration."
Katie (unlike Tom, we refuse to take the "I" out of her identity) has been MIA since silently bringing forth Suri on April 18, although there's already speculation that she may be trying to whip her post-baby bod back into shape.
TMZ recently reported the semi-retired starlet met with a consultant from Buff Brides, a company that specializes in getting women ready to say "I do" (their slogan: "From dumbbells to wedding bells").
She's also said to have settled on a wedding dress, a floor-length "sleek, strapless A-line," which we're hoping is a heckuva lot more flattering than the oddball maternity-wear she sported while gestating Tom's progeny.
Expect the ceremony to be as private and low-key as everything else TomKat has ever done (translation: Don't be surprised if "ET" talking head Mary Hart walks Katie down the aisle). No word on the guest list, but it's a good bet Jamie Foxx, Cruise's "Collateral" co-star, and Kanye West, who did the theme song for "M:I III," will make the cut now that the star has appointed them "uncles" to Suri.
"Jamie Foxx is going to be uncle. I asked him today and he's accepted. He's an amazing guy," Tom tells the Mirror. "And when I get back to the States I'm gonna ask Kanye West."
Meanwhile, will Tom beat his ultra-private ex-wife to the altar? Wedding whispers are once again swirling around Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban, who have remained as quiet as a Scientologist-packed delivery room when it comes to their purported plans to make things legal.
According to the New York Post, the pin-thin, smooth-skinned Oscar winner has decided to get hitched to the perma-stubbled, highlight-happy country crooner on June 25 in her native Sydney.
Kidman has reportedly been working to get her decade-long union to Cruise annulled (they have two children together), which would allow her to swap vows with Urban in the Catholic Church (her rep has labeled the rumor "nonsense").
The discreet Down Under duo, both 38, began dating last summer, with talk that they were planning to tie the knot beginning to bubble in earnest back in November, when Nicole was first seen flashing a doorknob-sized sparkler on her all-important finger.
Kidman's flack has played down the marital mumblings, allowing only that the pair has a "nice friendship together."