Eva Longoria & Tony Parker Get First Wedding Gifts

Eva Longoria has received the first of her lavish wedding gifts as she prepares to wed basketball player Tony Parker this weekend (07Jul07), from the man once rumored to be her boyfriend.

U.S. TV personality Mario Lopez has bought Longoria and Parker Kwiat Solaris jewellery pieces to mark the couple's upcoming nuptials.

Lopez splashed out more than $10,000 (£5,000) on an 18-carat white-gold bracelet for his friends and a 1.27-carat tie pin for the groom-to-be.

Desperate Housewives star Longoria and Parker began the celebrations for their nuptials at the weekend with a his-and-her bachelor party in Saint Tropez, France.

The couple arrived in Paris on Monday morning (02Jul07), according to People magazine. They will stage a low-key wedding followed by a lavish reception at Chateau de Vaux le Vicomte, two hours south of Paris.

Celebrities expected for the nuptials include Longoria's Desperate Housewives castmates, Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jamie Foxx, Lopez and Parker's San Antonio Spurs teammates.