Bill and Fleur's wedding in DH?

[Carol]

Excellent news, everyone. Not only is Clemence Poesy in negotiations to reprise her role as Fleur but (as someone else has already reported) Domnhal Gleeson has been cast as Bill and Rhys Ifans has been cast as Mr. Lovegood. The Shell Cottage sequence will be filmed in Pembrokeshire, Wales. 

http://news.popstar.com/Article/797

Here's additional confirmation of the casting of Rhys Ifans, along with a photo of him (use the tinyurl if the long one is broken):

http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/03/28/rhys-ifans-to-play-xeno-lovegood-in-harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows/

http://tinyurl.com/dg5e7n

The Leaky Cauldron has additional information.

Assuming that the information in these articles is reliable, it seems likely that we'll see Bill and Fleur's wedding as well as the Shell Cottage sequence. After all, Bill and Mr. Lovegood need to be introduced as characters because they'll play a part later in the film, and (except for Fleur's kissing Ron good-bye) not the slightest hint has been presented that she'll end up as a member of the Weasley family. (Presumably the attack on Bill by Fenrir Greyback will be eliminated since Bill doesn't appear in the HBP film.) It sounds as if shell Cottage will be in Part I, which, to me, makes sense. Harry's choice (Horcruxes, not Hallows) is probably the perfect place to end the first film.

I know that not everyone is pleased with the casting of Fleur Delacour--Clemence Poesy is hardly Veela beautiful, I agree, but neither are most people--but I think we should be glad that those particular characters will be in the film. The wedding, of course, is important because of what happens afterward (I hope we'll see a lynx Patronus with Kingsley Shacklebolt's voice), and the eccentric Mr. Lovegood should provide some humor as well as introduce a certain very important symbol.

With all the weird additions we've been reading about, I'm happy to see that the filmmakers are (apparently) doing something right!

Carol, mentally supplying "candyfloss" hair to the photo of Rhys Ifans