Chelsea Clinton was a pretty bride. I couldn't care less about most weddings, but, I always look at the dress. Hers was Vera Wang and I don't even have to look it up. If I was rich and into wedding gowns, I would get me one of them there Vera Wang's because she makes the most beautiful bride's gowns in the universe.*
I read that the bride and groom read poems to each other. If someone is going to read poetry to each other during the ceremony, I'd stay home. Even if the party cost $5 million. It's not worth it to have to sit through that shit. People who write their own vows and read poetry make me want to vomit and spontaneously combust. Couples who do that shit should provide their guests with sharpened chop sticks to jam in their brains.
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but i am sure butterflies delivered the poems to them!! and then a unicorn road a rainbow after the poems were read and they impaled the poems on his horn and he flew back off!
i was pretty disgusted by the political grief people were writing in news forums....chelsea is the private only daughter of a former president! of course the clintons would shell out for her wedding!! and he's a FORMER president and she's current sec. of state, that's why there's security! people need to THINK.....
I'm not into spending big bucks for wedding dresses .. or weddings. But that is a beautiful classic dress. Agree, the personal vows, poems, etc make me gag. It was nice to hear that most of the guests were personal friends and not a bunch of celebrity contributors that the couple barely knew.
I am not a Clinton fan, but I thought that the wedding was as private as they could get it...most of the guests were Chelsea's own friends. Ma and Pa Clinton for once looked like regular proud parents enjoying the wedding of their only child. Chelsea looked radiant.
Much of the cost went to security issues, both for themselves and their guests...how could they really get away from that?
I still think that million dollar weddings are a terrible waste of money no matter how much a person has. It could be put to such better use.
Kathi
She looked amazing. The dress was fabush! The rhinestone sash was perfect. Or were those real diamonds? Maybe just little sparkly's! LOL! But it was the best. My vote also goes to Vera Wang. She didnt even start out with the intent to be so big in wedding gowns, it kind of just happened. Good for her! Chelsea looks beautiful and thats saying alot, she was never a pretty girl, ever. She has really slimmed down, that helped her so much. Bill did too. He looks the same tho, just sick. I like Bill and Chelsea's wedding was wonderful and why not? If we were them we would do that for our only daughter in October! Who, BTW, are writing their own vows. It will be short & sweet tho. I know her vows wont be all gushy, but his might be. He's a songwriter. But she hates an audience, so she will make hers very quick business. The wedding is making me crazy. October is such a bad time for flowers. Grrr! I wanted to have my little sunflowers still be in bloom by then, no chance. I am going to order some flowers for our vases & do our own arrangements. Its cheap. Willow branches & some flowers thrown in with some purple fountain grass. I am going to stop worrying. Meeting with florist tmrw. Maybe she can help allay my worry. If my sisters-in-law had not put this shower/engagement party on me too, I would be fine. But I have had to do it all. Its on 8-14. When its over I will be 1/2 way thru. Whew!!!!
xoxo
rox
Its their Money let them spend it anyway they want
I hear everyone got a nice wedding gift pack for showing up
I would have bet you 5 buck she would wear a strapless gown, Brides all do but at least her fat wasnt escapeing over the dress.
Chelsea is a vegan and she had a vegan food menu and gulten free too
yuck hope they had a great open bar
i read they also served organic beef for meat eaters....
Oh Thank God you all agree that it was ok for Chelsea to have the wedding she wanted. God forbid they read their own vows as opposed to reciting something that may have no significance to them.
Beautiful dress. Chelsea looks very pretty in this picture. I don't have a clue who she married, but it looks as if he is wearing a prayer shawl, so Jewish? I think she got the worst of the looks of both her parents (and I really AM a Clinton fan of their politics), but hopefully she got the very best of each of their characters and intelligence.
anon 2:26 ---- you like to come here and talk down to us....why? make ya feel better?
barb in VA---yes he's jewish....they had a rabbi and a preacher do vows in each of their religions....
chelsea has grown into a beautiful looking woman....
not 2"26 my .02 cents
Its chelseas wedding she got what she wanted So what if it was a $$$ million wedding her folks can afford it and why wouldnt they splurge she is their only child.
I think its rude for people to tell other people how to spend their money HOW would like it if someone came up to you and told you how to spend your money?
I'm happy to read it wasnt an only vegan food served. Did anyone noticed how Skinny Bill looked ?
i did notice how skinny bill looked....he looked TOO skinny in my opinion.....
what a contrast to the Palins on- off- on -maybe off shotgun wedding of Bristol to Levi who may or may not have gotton another girl pregnant or Bristol is having another kid supposely. So much for when you are a role model for abstinence.
Wait so you are allowed to critize people who are NOT even on this blog but if someone comes by and says something about you (who are CHOOSING to put your info out there) that is wrong. Wow hypocrites
I didn't think I was being critical. I thought she looked beautiful. Anons confuse me sometimes.
Anyhow, I always thought Chelsea was a pretty girl. Bill did look to thin though.
she looks so happy, as for the poems, its cool, u find out a little something about each person. it doesn't matter to me what ppl spend on a wedding, it's their event. i guess if ur at that wedding ur a friend or family member, and ur there cuz u want to be, not a hostage.
Rox, I hope you get good pics for us. I know I want to see it.
anon 2:56 you are beyond a hypocrite....why don't you go away????
Hey, I fixed my typing problem! Comps still fuckerooed, but, hey, this is good.
I don't know if I would spend that much money even if I did have it. The dress is beautiful and they look very happy. I'm glad that Chelsea stuck to her guns and kept it as private as possible without all the celebrity hoopla.
We spent $60 to get married by a gypsy woman. I wore an $18 dress I bought at Ross. 16 years later, I still cherish the ground the old toad walks on. :)
Yeah, my whole wedding cost $500 bucks and it was pretty. I hated the whole thing though. I thought I looked stupid in a white gown.
I find it offensive that anyone who is a public servant/elected official can afford to drop this kind of money on a wedding when the country they serve is scrapping by, borrowing money from China and with a good portion of it's population barely squeaking by above the poverty line. It just doesn't seem right!
Just my opinion.
Bill is a private citizen for many years now and makes a good living by giving talks to orgainzations . corporations and writeing books
I believe his fee is anywhere from $ 100,000 to 250,000 per speech SARAH PALIN has made just as much money lately.
He can spend his money which he made anyway he wants. This is America !
I do not find it offesive at all. there are always going to be poor amongest us
would you like someone to come up to you and TELL you how to spend your money? no thats just rude
I bet we all pay public servants their wages thru our taxes and Some spend it on drugs drink and porn and here you are all complaining about a joyous occasion to celebrate the world is always in a dreary problematic place Live, Enjoy, Laugh Celebrate the joyous events in your lives. they dont come often.
Personally I don't like weddings and I don't go to them anymore. I just send a nice gift. But it looks like Chelsea's wedding was fun. She should spend as much as she wants--the people that benefit financially from a huge wedding are many--farmers, caterers, hotels, restaurants, florists, party suppliers, designers, dept. stores, photograpers--it's endless. If Chelsea elopes all those people lose out on some income this year, and the Clintons $$$ stagnate in the bank. Funding a wedding is just as valid as giving $ to charity, because it supports commerce--it rewards hard work.
PS but when the bride and groom read their own vows I cringe. My eyes water out of embarassment for them. Even if it's on TV! lol!
Yes, everyone wants to hear what Bill "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" Clinton has to say!
I wonder if they went all out like I did and bought that silver flatware thats actually plastic! Looks & feels real! U think Bill & Hil went for the big bucks and got them too? LOL!!!
rox
PS: I got a deal online tho! $1.80 for 12 forks etc. I needed 5 boxes of each. You add it up. Its not bad for looking & feeling real. If it was a big wedding, I wouldnt have done it. But only around 50 or 52 ppl are attending and that includes the wedding party. LOL! Smaller weddings = can get some stuff u otherwise couldnt. At least for us. But I guess if it was BIG wedding, we would be rich and it wouldnt be an issue anyways! LOl
My daughter didn't love this dress either. I think it's wonderful. If she could get a Vera Wang she would, it wouldnt be poufy tho. More like Carolyn Kennedy(Bessette). Something smooth & flowy, simple & elegant. $40G but still it was simple! LOL...and not a Vera Wang!! Thats a fav gown of ours. We still talk about her gown. It was perfect.
rox
LOL @ miss tia's butterfly, unicorn and rainbow scenario!!!!
Rox, fabush/faboosh is a perezhilton nonword. I hope you aren't going to incorporate amazeballs into your vocabulary too! If so I will have to find the doofus and stab him/it in the eye with one of those sharpened chop sticks DD was mentioning and wash your keyboard out with soap, young lady!
I'm with the whole simple wedding/use the money for something else philosophy. You can do a lovely wedding up on the cheap, and have assisted with a few for my sisters. That being said, Vera Wang's are the quintessential wedding gowns.
The thing I love about DD (& Crabbie because I don't think of one without the other for some reason) is she adequately puts into words that which I cannot express. Everything you said about composed poems and vows, DD, is exactly the way I feel. It may represent something special to the couple and that's nice for them, but reading it out loud to us subjects us to intimate saccharine sentiments none of us really need or want to hear. I don't want to hear your nickname for his dick either. Then again at least I'd get a laugh out of that.
Has anyone seen anything about the brides' maids? Did she have any?
Sorry...bride's maids!!!
Frimmy...so you check out Perez Hilton too? Hell, who doesn't? Glad you got the reference. Yes, he's an ass but once in a while he gets a very juicy bit of info. Not so much lately. Only news out of Ho-Wood has been, has-been Linsey Lohan & good ol' bitch fightin' Mel Gibson, whom I love in his movies, BTW! DD is for fun and to share. Perez is like Cool Whip on pudding. Not necessary but it's fluffy!
Rox
Meh I used to check him out when I first discovered blogs. I don't think he's even posting or running his site anymore. Some other even less literate person/people are taking care of his posts. It got to be too much of the kind of bashing children do to each other. Groundless accusations and malicious gossip just for the meanness. (that only happens here when the site is invaded by trolls)
The thing that pushed me over the edge of tolerance was when an actress got accused of not knowing how to hold her infant and therefore was endangering its safety. The person in question was holding the child in the fairly classic 'football' hold. Not a damn thing wrong with it. Then the comments page was full of people jumping on his stupid actress/endangerment of child bandwagon. That was scary to me. That this asshole was able to influence all these brainless followers based on a completely inaccurate post.
Besides not getting his facts right, there's the whole can't even get basic spelling right (there, their, they're, your, you're)And...Mario et al see NO wrong in a celebutard if that one is part of his accepted circle of misfits. Lady Gaga for example.
I felt like based on the subject matter and style of writing, he peaked at about grade 7 emotionally speaking. It wasn't even worth posting as one of the lone voices of reason or as a perez basher because the other Mario bashers were just as offensive as he was.
So I'm a proud ex-perez follower, I guess.
I thought she looked absolutely radiant and the pictures of them together look as though they are both so happy! I read that she had known him from school, growing up, and always had a crush on him, but they started dating not all that long ago, and, voila!
Her dress was beautiful. I liked Caroline Kennedy's also, but I think her's was by Carolina Herrera. It was perfect for her, but this was great on Chelsea.
I don't like the write-your-own-vows thing, either. People always say things in those vows, that I don't want to hear. It is downright embarrassing, sometimes.
I had an expensive wedding for the time. We had less than 100 guests, I think, but I once added up everything and it came to $10,000. (21 years ago.) I had a beautiful dress with lots of hand-beading, appliques and sequins, all hand-sewn. I think it was $1,500 originally, but I got it on a clearance off of clearance rack for $580 or so. We rented a beautiful restaurant on the Columbia River for the reception, and had the restaurant cater. It was a sit-down dinner with wait staff taking orders from a menu with three choices. Sirloin steak, with all the usual stuff, Santa Fe chicken with the blue cheese dressing, etc., and Red Snapper with the usual stuff. I economized by not having a dance floor and band, just a harpist, but I picked weird songs like Stairway to Heaven, for her to play. My way of poking at my fiance's family who wanted everything fancy. It was beautiful, but if I had to do it over again, I would have gotten married the previous October, in a simple, Justice of the Peace ceremony. I actually developed PTSD (diagnosed two months after the wedding) in response to wedding planning. How ridiculous is that??? Mentally, it would have been better to go much more simply.
I thought Chelsea looked glowing and that her Vera Wang dress was stunning. However, in my opinion, it seemed that the top half of the dress did not go up quite high enough. It gave the overall first impression of being a little too small and tight. But then, what do I know? Secondly, not to be snotty, but I too think that Chelsea (even with the plastic surgery) was never what I would call a beautiful girl. She is not unattractive, I think she is just very horsey-looking rather like Princess Anne, (Queen Elizabeth's daughter) who is quite UNattractive. I have seen nothing on the bridesmaids - I did read though that their dresses were off the shoulder and a lavender color. I will say that I am THRILLED that that big fat ass fame whore, Oprah Winfrey was NOT invited. She is a nothing but an ENTITLED bitch.
HERE IS BRIDESMAID INFO:
(She had 12 of them!)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/aug/02/sd-native-saw-chelseas-nuptials-up-close/
S.D. native saw Chelsea’s nuptials up close
BY DIANE BELL, UNION-TRIBUNE COLUMNIST
MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 2010 AT 8:30 P.M.
Security was tight around Chelsea Clinton’s wedding in Rhinebeck, N.Y. But one San Diego native got an inside look from start to finish — Elsa Marie Collins was one of Chelsea’s 12 bridesmaids.
Six years ago, Chelsea was Elsa’s bridesmaid when she wed NBA player Jarron Collins in the Founders Chapel of the University of San Diego, where Elsa’s mother, Yolanda Walther-Meade of La Jolla, served as a trustee.
The young women have been good friends since they met in 1998 as Stanford University freshmen. Elsa, a graduate of The Bishop’s School in La Jolla, has stayed in the White House as a guest of the Clintons, and the women have traveled to Mexico together.
Jarron, currently on the Phoenix Suns’ payroll, joined her at the wedding, as did Elsa’s sister, Caroline Walther-Meade, a lawyer in New York.
The bridesmaids’ dresses were designed by Vera Wang. The strapless design of smoky lavender chiffon with a contrasting, eggplant-colored belting and bow, had a flattering side drape. Elsa told her mother, who flew to New York to be with her, that the after-party was especially fun, with dancing into the early morning hours.
After the event, Elsa and her husband were invited to fly back to their L.A. home with developer and film producer Stephen Bing, another guest at the very private affair.
She looked absolutely radiant! She certainly transformed into a beautiful swan.
Merette...thanks for the info. I can't wait to see a picture of the bride's maids dresses.
I betcha they had to spend a lot of $$ on security. Like, serious bucks. I also bet that all in attendance had a lovely time, unless they were bound-and-determined to do otherwise.
Apparently she requested that her ol' dad lose a stone or two for his health before the wedding, which is why he looked rather svelte. Daughters who love their dads can sometimes persuade them do things they might not otherwise do.
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