LAS VEGAS - Organizers of a fantasy wedding on the Las Vegas Strip
between Hollywood's hottest unmarried couple got cold feet.
 Actress and UNHCR Ambassador Angelina Jolie, left, with
daughter Zahara, and Brad Pitt, second right, with son Maddox, walk near
the Gateway of India, in background, in Mumbai, India, Sunday.
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Madame Tussauds nixed the plan to stage a
depiction of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt tying the knot after a representative
for Pitt protested, representatives for the actor and the wax museum said
Monday.
"I personally found it a little odd that they were re-creating a wedding that
never really happened," said Cindy Guagenti, Los Angeles-based spokeswoman for
Pitt. "As Brad's representative, I found it disturbing."
Adrian Jones, general manager of the wax museum at the Venetian resort, said
in a statement that the decision was made to not cross the stars.
"Since Madame Tussauds enjoys excellent relationships with the celebrity
community, we made our own decision not to create the wedding scene," he said.
The Brangelina wedding had been scheduled Wednesday to mark the unveiling of
a Jolie wax figure. Pitt's already got one.
The scene would have had wax figures of George Clooney, standing in as best
man, and the Rev. Robert Schuller, pastor and president of the Crystal Cathedral
in Garden Grove, California, officiating.
Wax witnesses would have included the likenesses of the likes of Elvis,
Liberace, John Wayne, Bugsy Siegel, Frank Sinatra, Ben Affleck and Luciano
Pavarotti.
Instead, Jolie's wax figure will be introduced Wednesday, without the wedding
bells.
Guagenti said Pitt was unaware of Madame Tussauds' plans. He and Jolie were
with their three children in Mumbai, India, where Jolie is filming a movie about
slain journalist Daniel Pearl.
Pitt told Esquire magazine for its October edition that he does not intend to
marry Jolie until legal restrictions are lifted in the US and "everyone else in
the country who wants to be married is legally able."