Article comes from: www.nevasport.ru Last Saturday the famous skater from St. Petersburg Evgeni Plushenko said goodbye to his bachelor life. The ceremonial registration of Evgeni's marriage was held at the palace of marriage. The bride, Maria Ermak is a student at the state university. You can't find happiness in money! The black limousine "Lincoln" stopped 20 metres from the palace of marriage, and the couple Entered the palace, which suddenly was surrounded by the security. The security kept apart the paparazzi from the guests. The governor of St. Petersburg, Valentina Matvienko especially came to congratulate the couple. An interesting detail - when the newlyweds come out from the palace, the guests often throw some rice and pennies at them, by so doing they wish the couple to be rich and successful. Now when Zhenya and Maria, as husband and wife, came out and sat in the limousine, nobody threw rice or pennies at them. Naturally, because the newlyweds are already rich and succesful, and they know that money isn't everything," you can't find happiness in money". Evgeni's mom is pleased with her daughter-in-law. Evgeni Plushenko has said numerous times that in St. Petersburg there's not much good weather. On that happy day for Evgeni the weather was wonderful. The wedding's planners even suggested to the guests to walk from the palace of marriage to the hotel "Astoria", where the celebrations would be held. All the guests were glad to walk in Petersburg on a sunny day. The newlyweds visited the Vasilyevski island and the Summer garden. Evgeni's mom, Tatyana Vasilyevna, at the presence of everyone pronounced: -I absolutely rely on Masha. She and Zhenya have great holidays together and rest, which is so important for my son now. The groom's best man was the acrobat Alexei Polishuk. Besides him Evgeni had invited his closest friends to his wedding - the olympic Champion Viktor Petrenko with wife, Roman Kostomarov, the georgian skater Vachtang Murvanidze, the hockey player Alexander Yudin. To the wedding came also Zhenya's two friends from Volgograd. And of course Plushenko's coach Alexei Mishin. Now Plushenko won't be distracted by girls. - I think that after the wedding Evgeni would be more confident both in life and on ice, said Aleksey Nikolaevich, -Now he won't be distracted by girls and relationships. It is a common knowledge that Evgeni is religous and his wife is his fate. To the question how the marriage would affect the famous skater's career, the coach answered: - I hope that Masha would be my assistant on the coaching of Evgeni. And I can give a great example - Yuriy Ovchinnik's wife. She has helped me many times with the tough coaching decisions. It happens that only the wife can positively affect the sportsman in difficult situations. In the restaurant at the "Astoria" hotel there were tables for 160 people. During the wedding it was very cosy and familylike. Among the guests there were lots of kids. Igor Kornelyuk entertained the guests with all his songs. And in the evening everyone looked the fireworks from the windows of the hotel. Translated by Tati