It's Also About Bill and Hillary: Update on the Wedding Watch

OK! I have some 'splaining to do since I had said I would not be spotlighting this wedding since it is about Chelsea and Marc. As it happens, it is also about our lovely, intrepid, and, right now, nervous but excited, SOS and her attractive, charismatic country squire, the ex-POTUS. So with this disclaimer in place, I offer the following.

A couple of articles today contrasted the wedding of Bill and Hillary Clinton 35 years ago with the wedding they have planned for their only child this Saturday. Bill and Hillary, like many of us who married in those days, had a simple wedding with a home reception. I married two days before Christmas and wanted to wear my trusty peacoat, but my mom was having none of that and packed me off to the department store where I bought a belted kelly green coat that I never wore again. Our reception was held at the humble home of my parents. Like Bill and Hillary, we did not depart on a honeymoon. We went home - to his, and also now my, apartment. My sister's wedding was a replica of mine, but they did go to Bermuda afterwards.


Early this morning, my dear friend, who goes here by the handle Pcfs, shared today's NYT Op-Ed, The Kids Are All Right by Gail Collins, which is lovely, touching, and charming. I had just seen Jenna Bush Hager on the Today Show with sweet wishes for Chelsea. It is true! The kids are all right.

The article below also contrasts the two weddings.

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Chelsea And Hillary: A Tale Of Two Weddings

Multimillion-Dollar Affair A Stark Contrast To 1975 Nuptials

POSTED: 6:49 am PDT July 29, 2010

UPDATED: 8:53 am PDT July 29, 2010

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- Chelsea Clinton's multimillion-dollar wedding in New York state this weekend is a stark contract to her parents' nuptials, which took place in their living room before eight guests.Former President Bill Clinton married Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in their Fayetteville home more than 30 years ago, Fort Smith TV station KHBS reported.

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Much is being made of the cost. But the Clintons are not asking the public to cover anything. They are covering the cost of the extra security, along with the regular wedding stuff. And who would begrudge them this vicarious participation in an all-out wedding the likes of which they, in their salad days did not afford themselves? Only a real Grinch! Given their unswerving patriotism and selfless service to this country and to humanity, they more than deserve this gift to their little girl and her intended as well as to themselves because once the nuptials are over, and dad dances with his little girl, Bill Clinton certainly deserves to take his beautiful, accomplished, sweet bride in his arms and waltz her to the stars, finally, at a REAL wedding reception!

The weather forecast is perfect. All the best to Chelsea and Marc, as well as to our handsome Mr. President and his (and our) most exquisite Mme. Secretary.