Tina Turner Opens Up About Marriage With Erwin Bach (PHOTOS)

                                                 

She tied the knot with her long-term love Erwin Bach at a private ceremony in Switzerland over the

weekend.

And now Tina Turner has opened up about the wedding, for which she wore a green and black silk Armani gown with Swarovski crystals.

         

Describing marriage as 'a wonderful place to be', the 73-year-old music icon admitted that she wanted to put her own stamp on a traditional American ceremony.

Speaking to Hello! Magazine, the superstar said: 'It's that happiness that people talk about, when you wish for nothing, when you can finally take a deep breath and say, 'Everything is good'. It's a wonderful place to be.'

Tina married her German music producer other half on the banks of Lake Zurich surrounded by friends and family, including Oprah Winfrey and Bryan Adams.

And it seems that she managed to find the perfect wedding dress, deciding against traditional white and opting for something typically glamorous.

Dress code: While Tina was in green and black, the female guests wore white and the men were in black tie for the ceremony in Switzerland

                     

Close pals: The couple kept the wedding private, with just good friends and family in attendance

Tina admitted that she saw the gown on a catwalk in Beijing and decided that she had to have the eye-catching creation.
               

'I thought, 'I gotta have that, even if I never wear it'', she said. 'Then I thought, 'I know, that will be my wedding dress'.'

And while Tina made sure that all eyes were on her in the dramatic silk wedding dress, all the female guests wore white and the men wore black tie.

                          

Describing the type of ceremony that they had, the practicing Buddhist said: 'The American tradition I grew up with, tailoring it a little bit to me.'

According to Swiss media, 120 guests were invited to the event at the couple's Swiss home, the Chateau Algonquin estate in the Kuesnacht municipality on last Sunday.

                      

They also reportedly increased the security at their party by having wedding planners put up a red canvas screen at the foot of their garden, as well as police cordoning off the water outside their property.

                                    

However, police spokeswoman Esther Surber told AFP that the zone was cordoned off 'not because Tina Turner wants this (but) to avoid many boats' crowding near the manor in Kuesnacht, on Lake Zurich.

The couple, who have been together for 27 years after meeting at Heathrow airport, jetted off to Italy after the wedding for their honeymoon.