As Chelsea Clinton marches down the aisle at Astor Courts in Rhinebeck, New York, in tune with Richard Wagner’s Here Comes The Bride , dressed in an Oscar de la Renta gown, it may not spell the end of weeks of speculation. The Clintons have been extremely parsimonious with details of what has been dubbed America’s first royal wedding, conducted under tremendous security.
The media was only able to conjecture about possibles (and not) on the guest list and the cost of the toilets installed for the union of the youngest Clinton with investment banker Marc Mezvinsky on Saturday evening (early Sunday morning, IST).
So, it’s Chelsea’s bridesmaid that the wags are talking about — he’s rumoured to be a gay friend. It ought to come as no big surprise that the friend is dear to the bride, but sources have written that he’s also close to one of the invitees.
The invitee in question is Marc Lasry, a major supporter of the Democrats and hedge fund executive at Avenue Capital Group — where Chelsea worked for a short while after studying (and dating high- profile boyfriends such as Matthew Pierce and Ian Klaus) at Stanford and Oxford. It remained unconfirmed whether the purported bridesmaid was also a finance executive in Manhattan.
The wedding’s flower girl is believed to be the young daughter of Tony Rodham, who’s the brother of Chelsea’s ‘ power suit’ mother and US secretary of state Hillary Clinton.Tony, and the other brother, Hugh Rodham, Jr, were embroiled in a controversy during Bill Clinton’s tenure at the White House over failed hazelnut export schemes.
The wedding day festivities, reports The Daily Beast , started with cocktails at the Beekman Arms Inn, which is in the Hudson Valley town that has seen its 3,000- odd population bulge with the arrival of media crews and secret service agents, who are working overtime these days.
The VIP guest list is said to include venture investor and Democratic fundraiser Alan Patricof; Huma Abedin, of Indo- Pakistani ethnicity, who was Hillary’s aide during her 2008 nomination tour; and other advisers such as Capricia Marshall, Minyon Moore and Doug Band.
In the absence of any information flowing out of the Clinton household, it is the list of celebrities who chose not to attend the wedding that have made bigger news. These include President Barack Obama; media mogul Ted Turner; Bill Clinton’s vicepresident Al Gore, who was facing sexual harassment charges that have now been dropped, and television talk show host Oprah Winfrey.
Those on the may- attend list include singer Barbra Streisand, Hollywood director Steven Spielberg and Hollywood producer Steve Bing — Bill Clinton had reportedly borrowed Bing’s Boeing 737 to rescue American journalists from North Korea. The super- secrecy around the event has been maintained with the help of the local residents who have gone to great lengths to help protect the Clintons’ privacy.
Sources say nearly two weeks ago, two Norwegian journalists trying to photograph the Beaux Arts mansion where the wedding was to take place, were arrested with local help.
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