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By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(July 15) -- Given the 500-person guest list for Chelsea Clinton's impending nuptials to Marc Mezvinsky on July 31, it would suit her well to have her wedding at the Astor mansion in Rhinebeck, N.Y., as rumors predict. The century-old mansion, formally referred to as Astor Courts or Ferncliff Casino, is a quintessentially massive and grand product of the Gilded Age. As venues go, it would also draw a clear contrast with the backwoods bonanza that Bristol Palin has in mind for her wedding to Levi Johnston (who reportedly will be wearing camo) on some unidentified date this summer. Below, ...
Chelsea Clinton's July 31 Wedding at Opulent Astor Courts
By Annie Groer - Politics DailyThe closely held details of Chelsea Clinton's wedding have begun to leak out, and the first major morsel may well be the venue. She will marry investment banker Marc Mezvinksy, 31, at Astor Courts, a Beaux-Arts masterpiece overlooking the Hudson River designed in 1902 by famed architect Stanford White for American oligarch John Jacob Astor IV. From the outside, it evokes Louis XIV's Grand Trianon at Versailles. And inside? It's straight out of an Edith Wharton novel. Speculation about everything from Chelsea's wedding gown (Vera Wang? Oscar de la Renta?) to the officiant (a Protestant ...
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