Anthony Albanese and Jodie Haydon receive wedding well-wishes from friends and political opponents

Anthony Albanese’s political friends and foes alike have sent their best wishes as new details emerge of the Prime Minister and his partner Jodie Haydon’s wedding on Saturday.

The low-key ceremony in the gardens of his official Canberra residence, the Lodge, was kept under wraps ahead of time for security reasons.

The couple both made speeches, as did Mr Albanese’s son Nathan and Ms Haydon’s parents Bill and Pauline, around sunset.

Afterwards, the happy couple cut the two-tiered wedding cake, which was enjoyed by guests in the lit-up gardens.

Mr Albanese has been known in the past to take on his “DJ Albo” alter ego and while he didn’t hit the decks on Saturday night, there was a list of “very tailored music” to get people onto the dance floor.

“As anyone who knows the PM and Jodie (knows), they both love music. It’s one of the things that they share together,” said Finance Minister Katy Gallagher, one of Mr Albanese’s key political allies and friends, who was among the small contingent of guests.

Ms Haydon walked down the aisle to Ben Folds’ The Luckiest, which features in the soundtrack of the movie About Time.

After the ceremony, she and Mr Albanese walked back down the aisle to Stevie Wonder’s Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I’m Yours) as guests threw flower petal confetti over them.

As the dance floor heated up, they made their first dance to Frank Sinatra classic The Way You Look Tonight.

“It was just a lovely night, a lovely day, lovely afternoon, and the PM and Jodie were just thrilled with how it all went down,” Senator Gallagher said on Sunday morning.

“They’ve been going out for five years, engaged probably for over a year. And we get to this point in the end of the parliamentary sitting where they can just get married and spend a little bit of time together before they get back into the madness of the job that the PM has.

“Hopefully they’re resting this morning.”

Despite the happiness of it all, she couldn’t be tempted onto the dance floor: “There is no song that gets the Finance Minister – I’m not a dancer!”

Mr Albanese and Ms Haydon paid the costs of the event themselves.

They will spend the next week on a honeymoon in Australia.

Senator Gallagher said that “it would be difficult if you’re Prime Minister to get married anywhere”, given public scrutiny and security concerns in the current era, and that all the appropriate arrangements had been made regarding the use of the Lodge grounds.

“The PM has been a very proud Canberra PM, he loves being in the nation’s capital, sees it as a real part of his job to govern from Canberra. They made the decision that that was the appropriate venue,” she said.

Opposition Leader Sussan Ley wished the couple “every happiness” as they continued building a life together.

“A wedding day is a very special day indeed,” she said.

She declined to comment on the choice of venue, saying only: “I am OK with it being at the Lodge.”

Her offsider, Nationals leader David Littleproud, said he was genuinely happy for the pair and was full of praise for Ms Haydon.

“Jodie has already stepped up on the international stage and represented us in such a classy way for some time, and now they’ve solidified their partnership with marriage,” he said.

“It’s great to see the PM’s got someone that loves him and is going to get to be with him. It’s a tough job and it’s a lonely job, let alone being Prime Minister.”

World leaders also sent their best wishes.

“Congratulations to my good friend, PM Anthony Albanese and Ms Jodie Haydon on their wedding. Wishing them a happy married life,” Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi posted on social media.

Canada’s Mark Carney also publicly congratulated Mr Albanese and said he and his wife Diana “send all best wishes”.

Mr Albanese is the first Australian prime minister to wed while in the job.

The nearest to a wedding on the grounds previously was when Robert Menzies’ daughter Heather was married in 1955, although her ceremony was held in the nearby St Andrew’s church and the reception at University House at ANU.