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No expense spared for Chelsea Clinton’s wedding
Wedding experts estimate Bill and Hillary’s fortune will be down by $3m
While America tightens its belt, the Clintons are loosening their purse-strings to give their daughter a wedding to remember. Having picked the brains of celebrity wedding planners and event organisers, the New York Daily News reckons the total bill for Saturday's nuptials will top $3 million.
As Charles Laurence wrote for The First Post yesterday, Chelsea Clinton and her-husband-to-be, Marc Mezvinsky, are expected to tie the knot in front of 400-500 guests in a 'fairy tale wedding' at Astor Courts, a neo-classical pile overlooking the Hudson River in upstate New York.
Security is one of the big costs, according to the Daily News, who have allocated $200,000 in their notional budget. Guests will include statesmen and Hollywood stars and they'll need to feel secure from attack from land or water. Naturally, the air space above the estate will have to be closed for the day.
Another $200,000 goes to the wedding planner, the bulk of whose work should already be done or they’ll be in trouble. Flowers will cost $500,000 and the tents for the reception - complete with glass walls - will cost $600,000. Flying and limo-ing guests in to the Hudson River Valley town of Rhinebeck will cost another $500,000.
The wedding dress, thought to be by either Vera Wang or Oscar de la Renta, is expected to be a mere trifle at $25,000. So the Daily News has added another $250,000 for the jewellery to accessorise it.
Throw in $15,000 for celebrity-worthy portaloos (air-conditioning and soap), $25,000 for 'favours' (goody-bags for the guests), $10,000 for the cake, and another $10,000 for an 'aisle runner' - for the uninitiated, that’s the carpet running up the aisle – and before you know it, the total has hit $3.3m.
Still, the Clintons can afford it. Between them, the former President and the current Secretary of State are estimated to have earned between them $100m-plus in the years 2000 to 2007.
By the way, the wedding gifts have already started arriving. Among the first was this delightful portrait of the bride and her mother (above) by the Vietnamese artist Dao Trong Cuong, presented to the Secretary of State during a visit to Hanoi last week. What more could a fairy tale bride want? ·
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Yes, let the proletariat suffer in poverty, whilst the glorious leaders revel in displaying their own wealth to those same dumb star struck masses. The Clinton's scammed their millions from the gullible sheeple, who frankly, for believing all the synthetic socialist leanings of their self-serving former president, deserve to be fleeced, by one lot of crooked hypocrites after another, until they realise that ordinary Americans have had presious little say on the running of their own country for years and will continue to be little more than a minor irritant at election time until they wake up and get out on the march to take their country back from big business, communist multi-racialists and an insane media.
"What more could a fairy tale bride want? "
Plastic surgery? At least a brown bag!