Wow the Opulence! Chelsea's Wedding Reception!

[boston bean]

Was in a tent.

A big white canvass tent!

How DARE she!!!!!!!!!!

Also, I heard they ate mostly veggies, with chicken and fish and if you really wanted a steak you could have one, if you ordered it a head of time!

They really went waaaayyyyyyy overboard on this one, doncha think?

HA!

[tularetom]

1. Geez, let it die a natural death willya

I mean I agree with you, a lot of DU'ers have way overreacted to this non event but the threads of fake outrage have already dwindled to almost nothing.

Why do you want to poke a stick into a hornet's nest?

[boston bean]

2. Were there people here who were fake outraged over it? WOW

Geez, my post was meant for the republican ratfuckers!

[tularetom]

3. Are you kidding?

There were a couple of posters in full class warfare mode over the whole thing.

I think they were building a guillotine between posts.

[PCIntern]

4. DUzy! If we still had them...

[malaise]

5. But not one of them has acknowledged that ABC

was chatting pure crap about a $20M wedding.

[undeterred]

6. Hey, those organic vegetables are expensive!

[nadinbrzezinski]

24. You noticed too

and for the record I wish they spent as much as ABC gossiped. Good for the local economy....

Oh wait, here are the code words... oh I will let old dogs lie.

:hi:

I mean economics and policy is not a strong point... why shinnies are so damn distracting!

[hfojvt]

31. I thought the number was $2.5 million

which was perfectly acceptable to the defenders because it was gonna trickle down to all us envious working folk.

[blondeatlast]

34. One sang his/her last song over this; kind of a trivial thing to die a DU death over, but oh well. n

[whistler162]

7. That was last weeks poutrage... they have been directed to

this weekends poutrage and are doing their fervent best to be POUTRAGED over _________!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

8. And noticeably missing was the reported $250,000 in jewelry that Chelsea was reported

to have been wearing.

[The Backlash Cometh]

9. Beautiful dress.

Let's hope he has more integrity than his father. That's one thing I admired about Chelsea. I never saw her as a materialistic kind of kid. Maybe other people saw her that way too, which is why the tag caught everybody by surprise.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

13. Vera Wang hit another home run. I love her designs. As to

Chelsea, I really don't know who she is but I wish her and Marc the very best.

I will say though, that she made an incredibly radiant bride and there seems to be a light within her that seems honest and true.

[blondeatlast]

35. That smile is real. I've known brides who parcticed their smiles--

gotta make certain there isn't too much teeth, the eyes aren't small and crinkled; etc.

That's spontaneous and sincere; very refreshing.

[NotThisTime]

10. She looks beautiful.... best wishes for the bride and groom

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

12. She looks radiant! A beautiful couple and I said it last night for them,

mazel tov!

[eowyn_of_rohan]

36. the dress could have used a necklace

:hide:

But she looks radiant and lovely and they both look happy - That is what is important

[IndianaGreen]

11. Despite the relative modest opulence of a wedding among the ruling class

those of us in the lower strata of society are still waiting for the much promised recovery.

There are two classes in America: the super rich and everyone else. We are everyone else!

[Hannah Bell]

14. in a tent on the old Astor estate, yes,

http://www.luxist.com/2009/09/27/astor-courts-estate-of-the-day/

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

15. My guess is that they either didn't have to pay to hold the wedding there, or if they did,

they got an incredible break on the price.

The place looks beautiful and Stanford White designed some incredible buildings.


BTW... When ever I think of him, I can't help remembering him as he was portrayed in EL Doctrow's "Ragtime", one of my favorite books of all time.

[Hannah Bell]

18. i think it belongs to a friend of the family.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

19. That's what I thought and forgot to mention! What I do find

interesting is that all along the Hudson River (I live about 40 miles south of Rhinebeck, near the Hudson) were retreats for the Robber Barons, including Astor. Nearby is the Vanderbilt Estate, and Cornelius was another one of that group.

As I place my tinfoil hat on tightly, I muse that there might have been some symbolism in the Clintons choosing that location. When I loosen it up I realize that they most likely liked the "price", the size of the property and for the drop dead gorgeous views. If someone offered it to me for free I'd have my kids get married there in less than a heartbeat. :)

[Withywindle]

43. That really is a gorgeous area.

I went to Bard College for a year so I remember how beautiful it was, including the historic old mansions...class warfare being what it is, it can be hard to admit to feeling the envy and the romanticism. But I did.

[LibertyLover]

16. What a lovely house that is

I used to live in Bergen County, New Jersey and sometimes on a Saturday my mom and I would drive on the east side of the Hudson, up Rt. 9 to see some of the historic sites like FDR's home. There are several lovely old homes along the route that are open to visitors in Westchester and Duchess counties. I hope Chelsea and Mark are very happy.

[K8-EEE]

17. I don't remember any Repukes complaining about Rush's FOURTH wedding

All the RWers are out pout-ragin' that Jenna's wedding cost $100,000. And they know that HOW? And Chelsea's cost a gazillion billion million, how do they know? Bunch of pout-raged phonies.

[jmowreader]

23. Now it's time for some pout-rage of my own...

There is no damn way Jenna Bush's wedding cost $100,000. There's no way...

Well, maybe there is: if the two garbage cans full of Coors Light were really made out of platinum, they might have spent $100,000. But seriously, guys, you can get a wedding cake at Walmart for a couple hundred bucks, a big tray full of Vienna sausages in barbecue sauce is pretty cheap and people like it, and as for a dress Jenna probably followed in the footsteps of her mom and went through the White House looking for a curtain the right color.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

26. The eventual Bristol Palin wedding will cost 27 bucks

Whomever she marries.

[Erose999]

42. Depends on whether the Palins go with buckshot or slugs. And whether they spring the extra coin

for High Life instead of Natty Light.

[jmowreader]

47. When I think of a Bristol Palin wedding...

I am always reminded of an old Army cadence they probably won't let you sing anymore, "The Prettiest Girl." One of the lines says, "the wedding was a formal one, her daddy had a white shotgun." (The cadence is about getting a drunk girl pregnant, which might explain why they won't let you sing it anymore. They DEFINITELY quit letting us sing the stanza that said 'I put it in, I pulled it out, it felt so good I had to shout.' And trust me, as dirty cadence goes that one was MILD. We had some seriously rank ones.)

[K8-EEE]

32. LOL!!!! n/t

[FooshIt]

20. two million dollars is more than I've had in my whole life combined

a lot more. for one party.

[jesus_of_suburbia]

27. any proof it cost 2 million dollars?

No?


I didn't think so.

[FooshIt]

33. they spent half a mil on flowers - link below

http://www.kiplinger.com/news/article.php/clinton-wedding-cost-up-to-5-million-how-much-is-19917022.html">link

[blondeatlast]

37. Quoting the New York Daily News. Riiiiiight... and I do mean very RIIIIGHT...

and very Murdoch.

:eyes:

[FooshIt]

40. is abc news a good enough link? they put it at up to 6 million

http://abcnews.go.com/US/chelsea-clintons-wedding-marc-mezvinsky-flowers-fireworks-security/story?id=11286546">source

do you have any info that contradicts this?

[blondeatlast]

44. Still pure speculation, but you keep fighting, bless your heart. nt

[FooshIt]

45. so nothing at all. thanks for playing

[Renew Deal]

28. Get over it.

[Skidmore]

21. Keerist, this thread is as stupid and worthless and the ones

that gush over the event. Enough already.

[Liberal_in_LA]

22. enought with the DU nannies. One more thread doesn't hurt anything

[Hassin Bin Sober]

25. Enough with the anti-nanny nazis. One nanny post doesn't hurt anything.

:silly:

[eowyn_of_rohan]

38. wait - it is the nannies who are the nazis

[unkachuck]

29. however much it cost....

....it was a lot more than me, or anyone around me, could ever possibly afford....

....and anyone who could afford to throw a bash like that, doesn't need to be representing me, my friends or our interests in any capacity....they ain't one of us....

[hfojvt]

30. I guess the tent proves it only cost $14.95

plus shipping and handling

[NeedleCast]

39. STILL don't care

About this non-issue.

If I declare you the winner of this issue that doesn't even brush up against important will you stop posting about it?

[lpbk2713]

41. First class all the way ...

[tjwash]

46. Meh...a hedge fund manager marrying and investment banker. Screw 'em both.