PICTURED: Lord Of The (Wedding) Rings! Sir Ian McKellen officiates as best friend Patrick Stewart says 'I do' to Sunny Ozell

There's probably nobody alive who could officiate a marriage ceremony with more gravitas than Ian 'Gadalf' McKellen... and he did just that for best friend Patrick Stewart.



The 73-year-old Star Trek star married his beautiful lady, 35, on the bank of picturesque Lake Tahoe, Nevada on September 7, and has just released this simple shot of the big moment.



The location was chosen as it's near to where the bride grew up, according to details shared by Stewart with Vulture.com.

In sickness and Gandealth! Sir Ian McKellen officiated at the wedding of Patrick Stewart and Sunny Odell in Lake Tahoe on September 7



Stewart talked fondly of his dear friend's words during the ceremony, he said: 'His remarks were not only full of wisdom and humor and poetry but knowledge of the two of us.'



'He got a little choked up at one point,' added Ozell before her new husband added: 'There wasn’t a person there who didn’t. I certainly did.'

Stewart added that the wedding party was 'wild' and that everyone was 'really, properly drunk' and revealed the wedding photographer nearly ended up in the lake.



'The water was lapping almost against our feet,' he told Vulture.

Third time's a charm! The couple - pictured at an event in Washington, DC on April 27 - have been together since 2008 and confirmed their engagement in March this year



A fine bromance: The X Men stars always delight with their buddy pictures on Twitter



He initially made made the announcement via an hilarious photo which he posted to his Twitter page on Sunday with the simple statement, 'Yes, married.'

In the pic, only the heads of the legendary actor and new wife Sunny Ozell are visible as their bodies are submerged in a colourful ball pit.

The newlyweds don huge beaming smiles in the youthful image, which perfectly encapsulates the British star's sense of humour.



Back in March, the 74-year-old Lord Of The Rings star revealed during an interview on The Jonathan Ross Show that he was set to officiate the ceremony.

'Yes, married': Patrick Stewart revealed to his nearly 600,000 Twitter followers on Sunday that he had tied the knot with singer-songwriter Sunny Ozell in this sweet photo taken in a ball pit

'I am going to marry Patrick,' he told the talk show host.



Patrick and Sunny - a 35-year-old singer-songwriter from Brooklyn - have been together since 2008.



The pair met while the X-Men star was performing Macbeth at the Brooklyn Academy Of Music and began living together in 2012, when Patrick purchased a property in Brooklyn's Park Slope.



'I am going to marry Patrick': The legendary actor's longtime pal and X-Men co-star, Sir Ian McKellen, is said to have officiated the ceremony after revealing his plan during an interview with Jonathan Ross in March



'Beam me up, Scotty!': The 73-year-old Star Trek star changed his Twitter profile picture to this solo shot in the ball pit

The couple confirmed their engagement in March this year.



This marks the third wedding for the actor, who has two grown children, Daniel and Sophia, from his first marriage to Sheila Falconcer, whom he was married to for 24 years, until 1990.



In 1997, he popped the question to Star Trek: The Next Generation producer Wendy Neuss, and the couple married in 2000, before divorcing three years later.

Young at heart: Despite their age difference - Patrick is 73 and Sunny is 35 - the couple have been going strong for five years, after meeting while the star was performing Macbeth at the Brooklyn Academy Of Music



