Pop the questions on Chelsea's wedding

July 30, 2010|By REGINA MEDINA, medinar@phillynews.com 215-854-598
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INTEL ON TOMORROW'S fairy-tale nuptials of former first daughter Chelsea Clinton and investment banker Marc Mezvinsky is sealed tighter than the sturdy cap on the BP oil leak. Even the mother of the groom is under strict orders.

"I would love to talk, but I can't," former U.S. Rep. Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, D-Pa., reluctantly told the Daily News this week. "They just asked us all to just keep a lid on it."

Well, Team Clinton didn't count on the wedding-hungry infotainment industry to be such a crafty bunch, did it? The blogosphere, newspapers and TV news have culled together enough tidbits for the Daily News to compile 25 random facts about the "Wedding of the Century" sure to make your life more complete.

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1. The only fact that guests know for certain is the date. It's unconfirmed that 500 A-list invitees plan to attend the $3 million wedding at the Astor Courts estate, in Rhinebeck, N.Y.

2. Every news and celeb-sighting outlet is reporting the previous sentence as fact, so we're going with it.

3. Mezvinsky, 32, had his bar mitzvah at Har Zion Temple, a Conservative synagogue in Penn Valley. Random thought: Will a sneaky paparazzo be able to snap a picture of Bill and Hillary dancing the hora during the wedding reception?

4. Guests must hand over their treasured iPhones, crackberries and the like before they step foot onto Astor Courts, according to the Washington Post. Cruel doesn't begin to describe it.

5. The pain doesn't end there for invitees - purportedly the likes of Oprah, Barbra Streisand and Steven Spielberg. The VIPs all have to display credentials. So D-List.

6. The wedding planners - yes, you read correctly, that's "planners," plural - reportedly gathered guests' credit-card digits and booked their hotel accommodations after offering them the choice of three price ranges, the Post said.

7. The wedding celebration is estimated to cost between $3 million to $5 million, the New York Daily News reported. But A-Listers don't celebrate like regular folks. (See numbers 8, 9, 10 and 11)

8. How does High Society spell luxury? They don't. They just spend $15,000 for top-of-the-line portable restrooms with porcelain toilets that, hallelujah, actually flush, TMZ reported. Hot water and stereo music included, too.

9. Security costs will come in at around $200,000 because of all the glamourati and international politicos, the New York Daily News reported.

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