Chelsea Clinton's wedding has been talked about for some time mainly because of all the secrecy and privacy surrounding the intimate ceremony. The reason for this is that people and paparazzi alike want to get their hands on a couple of Chelsea Clinton's wedding photos.
Rhinebeck, New York will have a giant microscope placed on them this weekend because that is where Chelsea Clinton will exchange vows with her childhood friend and soon to be husband,Marc Mezvinsky in front of 500 guests. Former President Bill Clinton and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were on hand last night as they attended the rehearsal dinner for Chelsea's wedding. This will be a great day for former President Clinton. Fathers everywhere dream of the day when they get to walk down the aisle with their daughter and give them away to a lucky man and sometimes woman! Take a look at all the guests, fans and family arriving at the rehearsal dinner.
Chelsea Clinton's wedding has been talked about for some time mainly because of all the secrecy and privacy surrounding the intimate ceremony. The reason for this is that people and paparazzi alike want to get their hands on a couple of Chelsea Clinton's wedding photos.
Rhinebeck, New York will have a giant microscope placed on them this weekend because that is where Chelsea Clinton will exchange vows with her childhood friend and soon to be husband,Marc Mezvinsky in front of 500 guests. Former President Bill Clinton and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were on hand last night as they attended the rehearsal dinner for Chelsea's wedding. This will be a great day for former President Clinton. Fathers everywhere dream of the day when they get to walk down the aisle with their daughter and give them away to a lucky man and sometimes woman! Take a look at all the guests, fans and family arriving at the rehearsal dinner.
There have been reams of speculation about just how private Chelsea Clinton wants her marriage to Marc Mezvinsky to be this weekend in Rhinebeck, N.Y.
Private, semi-private, really not private at all — but feigning a desire for privacy. When you have to invite several hundred people to please the relatives or the company or Congress before you've invited even one friend from grade school, your wedding has about as much intimacy as Times Square on New Year's Eve.
Almost six years ago, getting married for the first time, I realized that I would have to invite 175 of my husband's beloved Irish-American relatives to our nuptials before I had even one friend or relative of my own on the guest list. These people were all dearly welcome, but we just couldn't afford a 300-person wedding and, to be honest, didn't want one. I just didn't want to look out at a sea of humanity on my wedding day.
Our solution was to go across the sea, then, to Ireland — where we both had friends and family — marry there, and invite everyone. About 100 die-hards made it to the ceremony. We celebrated all night long, with the bartender and the musicians slumped over glasses of Guinness come morning.
But that won't work for Chelsea and Marc. Irish bookies at Paddy Power are taking bets on everything from who will be the first to cry at the ceremony to the length of Bill Clinton's speech. Bill is also "tipped for tears" as the first to cry. It's all meant to be amusing, of course, but I find it depressing. For us, Ireland was a sanctuary. But we aren't celebrities.
Weddings are increasingly notable for their amazing lack of intimacy, their evolution into industry. Especially for celebrities, they've evolved into must-haves and appointment-list mega-spectacles. I'd be surprised if some part of Chelsea Clinton doesn't want to just kick over the traces, start again and elope on horseback with her bridegroom.
I’m sure she'll have — I hope they'll both have — a great day, a day that's more than a blur, but I know we'll all be expecting the pictures, if not a bite of the cake. Perhaps we should all have two weddings — one for the public, friends and family, and posterity. And the other — some ceremony under a tree, nobody there but a faun playing a flute. No pictures, just us, Orpheus and Eurydice.
There have been reams of speculation about just how private Chelsea Clinton wants her marriage to Marc Mezvinsky to be this weekend in Rhinebeck, N.Y.
Private, semi-private, really not private at all — but feigning a desire for privacy. When you have to invite several hundred people to please the relatives or the company or Congress before you've invited even one friend from grade school, your wedding has about as much intimacy as Times Square on New Year's Eve.
Almost six years ago, getting married for the first time, I realized that I would have to invite 175 of my husband's beloved Irish-American relatives to our nuptials before I had even one friend or relative of my own on the guest list. These people were all dearly welcome, but we just couldn't afford a 300-person wedding and, to be honest, didn't want one. I just didn't want to look out at a sea of humanity on my wedding day.
Our solution was to go across the sea, then, to Ireland — where we both had friends and family — marry there, and invite everyone. About 100 die-hards made it to the ceremony. We celebrated all night long, with the bartender and the musicians slumped over glasses of Guinness come morning.
But that won't work for Chelsea and Marc. Irish bookies at Paddy Power are taking bets on everything from who will be the first to cry at the ceremony to the length of Bill Clinton's speech. Bill is also "tipped for tears" as the first to cry. It's all meant to be amusing, of course, but I find it depressing. For us, Ireland was a sanctuary. But we aren't celebrities.
Weddings are increasingly notable for their amazing lack of intimacy, their evolution into industry. Especially for celebrities, they've evolved into must-haves and appointment-list mega-spectacles. I'd be surprised if some part of Chelsea Clinton doesn't want to just kick over the traces, start again and elope on horseback with her bridegroom.
I’m sure she'll have — I hope they'll both have — a great day, a day that's more than a blur, but I know we'll all be expecting the pictures, if not a bite of the cake. Perhaps we should all have two weddings — one for the public, friends and family, and posterity. And the other — some ceremony under a tree, nobody there but a faun playing a flute. No pictures, just us, Orpheus and Eurydice.
It's important to clarify this from the beginning: Chelsea Clinton did not tell her father that he's a tub of a presidential lard. But she did tell him to cool it on the Big Macs.
Bringing back memories of an old "SNL" skit where President Clinton hopped from table to table at a McDonald's snarfing up food from the trays of constituents, the former president is back in the news today because of his weight.
No, he didn't actually ask a McDonald's patron, "Are you going to finish your fries?" or anything like that (like in the video we embedded below), but he's been ordered to lose weight -- or else.
Daughter Chelsea has a wedding this summer, and she made it clear that she doesn't want a flabby Daddy walking her down the aisle.
The former president appeared with CBS' Bob Schieffer on Wednesday at a fiscal summit in D.C. The longtime "Face the Nation" host asked the president if he was ready for Chelsea's wedding.
"She doesn't think I'm in shape," he said. "You know she told me the other day she said, ‘Dad the only thing you gotta do is walk me down the aisle and you need to look good.’
"So I said ‘Well, what's your definition?’ And she said: ‘Oh, about 15 pounds.’ So I'm halfway home."
It's important to clarify this from the beginning: Chelsea Clinton did not tell her father that he's a tub of a presidential lard. But she did tell him to cool it on the Big Macs.
Bringing back memories of an old "SNL" skit where President Clinton hopped from table to table at a McDonald's snarfing up food from the trays of constituents, the former president is back in the news today because of his weight.
No, he didn't actually ask a McDonald's patron, "Are you going to finish your fries?" or anything like that (like in the video we embedded below), but he's been ordered to lose weight -- or else.
Daughter Chelsea has a wedding this summer, and she made it clear that she doesn't want a flabby Daddy walking her down the aisle.
The former president appeared with CBS' Bob Schieffer on Wednesday at a fiscal summit in D.C. The longtime "Face the Nation" host asked the president if he was ready for Chelsea's wedding.
"She doesn't think I'm in shape," he said. "You know she told me the other day she said, ‘Dad the only thing you gotta do is walk me down the aisle and you need to look good.’
"So I said ‘Well, what's your definition?’ And she said: ‘Oh, about 15 pounds.’ So I'm halfway home."
Chelsea Clinton has announced her engagement to longtime boyfriend Marc Mezvinsky -- via e-mail.
How Etiquette 2.0!
The Ministry means that in a good way -- this way we know it's for real, unlike the last time they "got engaged."
The text of the e-mail sent Friday, as reported by @jaketapper over at ABC News:
"We're sorry for the mass e-mail but we wanted to wish everyone a belated Happy Thanksgiving! We also wanted to share that we are engaged! We didn't get married this past summer despite the stories to the contrary, but we are looking toward next summer and hope you all will be there to celebrate with us. Happy Holidays! Chelsea & Marc."
Mezvinsky, whom she first met in D.C. and then got to know better at Stanford University before they began dating, also has political parents. Chelsea and Marc been dating since 2005 -- he's an investment banker now, and she's in grad school at Columbia University.
During the most recent presidential primaries, the former first daughter broke her policy of not speaking to the media (as was her practice since dad Bill Clinton was president), and campaigned for her mom, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The Ministry is pleased that Chelsea is respecting its completely arbitrary "Don't get married before you're 30" edict. She's 29 now, but with a February birthday she'll hit the Ministry's magic number in plenty of time for the ceremony.
We're guessing she has ignored our "Don't vote till you're 25" corollary, however.
We get a lot of heat for that one. Doesn't mean it's wrong.
Congrats to Chelsea and Marc!
-- Christie D'Zurilla
Photo: Yay! A wedding! Chelsea Clinton cheers for her mom back in April 2008. We're guessing the sentiment is about the same right now. Credit: Los Angeles Times.
Chelsea Clinton has announced her engagement to longtime boyfriend Marc Mezvinsky -- via e-mail.
How Etiquette 2.0!
The Ministry means that in a good way -- this way we know it's for real, unlike the last time they "got engaged."
The text of the e-mail sent Friday, as reported by @jaketapper over at ABC News:
"We're sorry for the mass e-mail but we wanted to wish everyone a belated Happy Thanksgiving! We also wanted to share that we are engaged! We didn't get married this past summer despite the stories to the contrary, but we are looking toward next summer and hope you all will be there to celebrate with us. Happy Holidays! Chelsea & Marc."
Mezvinsky, whom she first met in D.C. and then got to know better at Stanford University before they began dating, also has political parents. Chelsea and Marc been dating since 2005 -- he's an investment banker now, and she's in grad school at Columbia University.
During the most recent presidential primaries, the former first daughter broke her policy of not speaking to the media (as was her practice since dad Bill Clinton was president), and campaigned for her mom, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The Ministry is pleased that Chelsea is respecting its completely arbitrary "Don't get married before you're 30" edict. She's 29 now, but with a February birthday she'll hit the Ministry's magic number in plenty of time for the ceremony.
We're guessing she has ignored our "Don't vote till you're 25" corollary, however.
We get a lot of heat for that one. Doesn't mean it's wrong.
Congrats to Chelsea and Marc!
-- Christie D'Zurilla
Photo: Yay! A wedding! Chelsea Clinton cheers for her mom back in April 2008. We're guessing the sentiment is about the same right now. Credit: Los Angeles Times.