First photos: Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma confirm they are married, post adorable pics

After keeping the media guessing about their wedding for months, Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma have finally tied the knot in a hush-hush ceremony in Italy.

The couple confirmed the news on Twitter.

Today we have promised each other to be bound in love for ever. We are truly blessed to share the news with you.This beautiful day will be made more special with the love and support of our family of fans & well wishers. Thank you for being such an important part of our journey. pic.twitter.com/aobTUwMNAK

- Virat Kohli (@imVkohli) December 11, 2017

Today we have promised each other to be bound in love forever. We are truly blessed to share the news with you. This beautiful day will be made more special with the love and support of our family of fans & well wishers. Thank you for being such an important part of our journey. pic.twitter.com/Scobdiqk7l

- Anushka Sharma (@AnushkaSharma) December 11, 2017

With a combined 35 million followers on Twitter, Virat and Anushka are undoubtedly the nation's most popular power couple - if he is destroying the opposition's bowling attack on the cricket field, she is taking the country by storm with her stellar performances on the big screen.

News of Virat and Anushka's wedding sent netizens into a frenzy and #VirushkaWedding began trending on Twitter minutes after it was announced that the couple had made their relationship official.

Speculation of an Italian wedding for Virat and Anushka by December 12 first started doing the rounds when sources told India Today Television that the couple's families had booked a place in Italy from December 9 to December 12.

The actress's spokesperson had denied the reports, but Anushka and Virat flying out of the country with their respective families seemed to confirm that a wedding was indeed on the cards. That Anushka's family priest, Maharaj Anant Baba of Anant Dham Atmabodh Ashram in Haridwar, accompanied her family only added fuel to the fire.

Initial reports said that the wedding was to take place in Milan, but India Today revealed that the Borgo Finocchieto resort near Tuscany was where Virat and Anushka took the plunge.

Reportedly, the dates were finalised when the couple was in Sri Lanka, in August this year. As netizens were going gaga over pictures of their gardening date, their families met and discussed their wedding dates. Anushka's family priest then zeroed in on a December wedding. However, Virat and Anushka decided to keep the news under wraps.

In 2014, in an interview to Harper's Bazaar Bride, Anushka said that if she were to have a destination wedding, she would want it to be traditional, and somewhere close to nature - "in a vineyard, perhaps". Her wedding, seems in tandem with the kind of a ceremony she wanted.

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