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Bill’s girl weds in splendor

By ISABEL VINCENT, STEVEN VAGO and MELISSA KLEIN

Microsoft heiress Jennifer Gates’ lavish wedding weekend culminated Saturday in her second ceremony in as many days, as she tied the knot with fellow equestrian Nayel Nassar at her sprawling Westchester horse farm.

Walking arm in arm with her divorced billionaire parents Bill and Melinda Gates (above) as the sun set on the $16 million property, the 25year-old bride emerged in a flowing wedding gown to pose for photos with her bridesmaids, ahead of a civil ceremony in front of 300 guests.

A few minutes later, a burst of cheers could be heard.

She and Nassar reportedly married in a Muslim ceremony on Friday evening, according to the Daily Mail.

Jennifer glowed in a dropped waist dress with a lace top, long sleeves and a full tulle skirt. Vera Wang designed the custom-made gown, the Mail reported.

She was surrounded by nine attendants in dark green gowns (top right), some with halter necks and at least one with sleeves.

Jennifer wore her long auburn hair half up and half down and appeared to accent the dress with just simple earrings.

Hundreds of guests, among them Georgina Bloomberg, daughter of former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, began arriving at the farm at 3 p.m. for the lavish event.

Vans pulled up from a White Plains hotel and from an inn in nearby Ridgefield, Conn.

Servers stood at the ready with glasses of Champagne.

Not that Georgina needed any bubbly: she was caught on camera drinking what looked like a beer as she was driven to the nuptials of her fellow equestrian pals in North Salem.

She arrived after 4 p.m., downing the beverage from a glass as she sat in the back seat of an SUV.

Bloomberg also posted a sweet picture online of her young son cuddling with Jennifer.

The image on Instagram shows the boy, Jasper, when he was just a toddler, alongside a beaming Jennifer,

with the caption, “Tonight his very first crush will officially be off the market. Happy Wedding Day @JenniferKGates and @NayelNassar.”

Cheering could be heard from the farm shortly before 5:30 p.m.

And then the skies opened up in a rainstorm about a half-hour later.

Wedding photographers captured the couple in a sweet embrace before the storm.

Earlier in the day, workers could be seen wheeling in masses of hydrangeas and other plants while pastry chefs from French boulangerie Ladurée carried a large, white two-tiered wedding cake.

Coldplay was scheduled to perform at the evening reception, along with folk musician Harry Hudson, according to a report.

“I thought I heard Michael Bublé singing, but it may have just been a recording. The delivery trucks have been coming down the road all morning,” said Linda Dupree, whose home backs onto the North Salem land owned by the bride.

Choral music could also be heard as dozens of catering workers in black shirts and slacks walked the grounds.

Dupree said the main stage of the wedding, which had been under construction for the past few days, resembled “a beautiful botanical garden.”

A series of apparently newly built, interconnected, glass-covered rooms (above) could be seen, including one housing rows of long white benches and another with dozens of tables of different sizes.

At one point, a man could be seen carrying two boxes of what appeared to be rapid tests for COVID-19.

Jennifer, who is studying at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, announced her engagement to Nassar, 30, who was born in Chicago and raised in Kuwait and California, in an Instagram post last year.

Nassar’s Egyptian parents, Fouad Nasser and Iman Harby, are principals in Diwan Interiors, an architectural firm based in Kuwait.

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