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IT is tipped as the society wedding of next summer - the match linking Christy Murray, daughter of Deutsche Bank taipan Simon Murray, and Nicholas Powell, the son of Jardine Matheson director and former Downing Street adviser Sir Charles Powell.

 Ms Murray, 24, who works for the Conde Nast magazine empire, is the youngest daughter of Hutchison Whampoa, Cheung Kong and Orient Overseas director Mr Murray and his wife, Jennifer, who piloted a helicopter around the world this year.

 Her 28-year-old fiance is the younger son of Sir Charles and Lady Carla Powell and spent five years working at Jardine's in Hong Kong.

 Sir Charles is reputed to have encouraged former Governor Chris Patten to accept the posting in 1992.

 Mr Patten, his wife, Lavender, and former British deputy prime minister Michael Heseltine are expected to be guests at the wedding in May.

 'We will probably get married in France in May,' Ms Murray said yesterday.

 'He proposed in Venice. It wasn't in a gondola, but it was lovely and very romantic. There was no ring in sight - I don't think he was planning to ask me, he just got over-excited.

 'He's away at the moment, so we'll choose a ring when he gets back.'  Sir Charles was foreign policy adviser to former prime minister Lady Thatcher, and the couple are friends of Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife, Cherie.

 A friend said Nicholas had always been popular.

 'If the best man's speech heads down the route of his wild young days, it could last some time,' he said.



Romance of Venice inspires society wedding