Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes Set the Date

People Magazine is reporting that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes will get married in Italy on Nov. 18. The announcement comes after a year and a half of anticipation reports Us Magazine.

On October 20, friends and family of Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise received wedding invitations.

The couple was rumored to be considering George Clooney's Lake Como villa as a site for their celebration, but there was no word on where the ceremony would actually take place reports E Online

The couple's rep, Arnold Robinson, confirms the wedding will take place November 18 in Italy--"All those details are correct," he says--and tells Us "proper security measures are being taken" to keep the vows private.

An Italian wedding in some ways brings Cruise, 44, and Holmes, 27, full-circle writes People: Their first public outing as a couple, in spring 2005, was in Italy, where Cruise was in Rome for the April 29 David di Donatello awards. Cruise told reporters on his way into the Auditorium Conciliazione di Roma, "She is an extraordinary woman."

Just two months later, Cruise proposed to Holmes at the top of the Eiffel Tower in France.

Nearly a year later, the pair welcomed their first child together, daughter Suri, on April 18. "She's so beautiful," Cruise told PEOPLE shortly after Suri's birth. And just two weeks after becoming a mom, Holmes said she felt "wonderful."

Cruise's rep told PEOPLE last week that the couple had asked their longtime friend Giorgio Armani to design the attire for the wedding.

The marriage will be the first for Holmes, who was engaged to American Pie star Chris Klein until February 2005 reports Hollywood.com.

Cruise had been married twice before, to Mimi Rogers ('87-'90) and Nicole Kidman ('90-'01). He has two adopted children, Isabella and Connor from his marriage with Kidman.