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Now get yourself home for a family do, mother tells Amy the rock'n'roll bride

Eloping to Florida to marry her lover in secret must have seemed a fittingly rock 'n' roll thing for Amy Winehouse to do.

But even tattooed rock stars have doting mothers - and Miss Winehouse's didn't think the impulsive nuptials were quite so cool, it has emerged.

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Amy with Blake Fielder-Civil during their Miami trip where they were married

Amy with her Best Contemporary Song award.

The 23-year-old singer revealed she has had to hastily arrange a second wedding in London for all the family at her mother's insistence.

Miss Winehouse married 25-year-old music video assistant Blake Fielder-Civil in a £60 civil ceremony in Miami last week, followed by a wedding breakfast of hamburger and chips.

Her parents Mitchell, a taxi driver, and Janice, a pharmacist, found out about it in the newspapers.

Speaking after winning the Best Contemporary Song award for Rehab at the Ivor Novello Awards ceremony, the singer said: "My dad was all right about it really - it was more my mum that wasn't. "I would have loved my family to have been there but it was something just for us.

"We've got to do something here now. I've got to go to Tiffany's to get myself sized up and we'll get matching rings then."

A friend of the singer explained that she was left with no choice but to have another wedding -on her mother's orders.

"Amy is unpredictable at the best of times but news of this wedding still proved quite a shock to her parents," said the friend.

"Although Amy has absolutely no regrets about the Miami do, she does now realise just how important the marriage is to her mother.

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Beverely Knight and Corinne Bailey-Rae

"After talking it through with Blake and her parents, the pair have agreed to hold a big family bash near their home in North London.

"It has not been agreed yet whether it will be a formal civil ceremony or a more chilled-out blessing."

At the Ivor Novello Awards, held at London's Grosvenor House Hotel, Madonna won International Hit of the Year for the song Sorry, which she co-wrote.

The Scissor Sisters and Rome Stoddart of The Magic Numbers

Sir Elton John received the Performing Rights Society award for most performed song for I Don't Feel Like Dancin', which he cowrote with the Scissor Sisters.

Norman Cook, also known as Fatboy Slim, won an award for his outstanding contribution to British music.

Legendary producer Quincy Jones and Eddie Grant arrvie for the awards ceremony.

Sheffield-based Arctic Monkeys collected the Best Album award for Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not. But the band's single, When The Sun Goes Down, written by frontman Alex Turner, missed out on the award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. That went to songwriter Scott Matthews, for Elusive.

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