Those wanting to chart who's in the Prime Minister's inner sanctum need go no further than the political guests invited to his Saturday wedding.

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The list of about 60 attendees for The Lodge nuptials of Albanese and Jodie Haydon included a modest but notable batch of political heavyweights (and their spouses), who form overlapping circles of the Prime Minister's inner cabinet, political intimates and praetorian guard.

Perhaps not since the March 2013 marriage of Jim Chalmers, who had just moved from the office of then-treasurer Wayne Swan, and Laura Anderson, adviser to then-prime minister Julia Gillard has a wedding guest list sent such interesting political messages.

But in a dramatic contrast in circumstances and atmospherics, the Chalmers' wedding, held near Byron Bay, came when a Labor government was spectacularly falling apart. The guests were visibly at sixes and sevens, and the seating plan had to be redone to keep things under a semblance of order.

On Saturday, the only sign of angst seems to have come from Albanese's dog Toto, apparently reluctant to follow down the aisle. Of skittish disposition,........

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