Getting Married in America: A Wedding for Every Budget
09 August 2010
Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky, her longtime boyfriend, at their wedding on July 31 in Rhinebeck, New York
KATHERINE COLE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Katherine Cole.
MARIO RITTER: And I'm Mario Ritter. This week -- weddings in America.
(MUSIC: "Halleujah Chorus" / Handel's "Messiah")
KATHERINE COLE: A very special wedding took place on July thirty-first in a small town in New York State. Chelsea Clinton married Marc Mezvinsky.
Chelsea is the daughter of former President Bill Clinton and the current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Marc is the son of two former Democratic members of Congress -- Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky and Edward Mezvinsky.
The Clintons tried to keep the wedding top secret. Guests were not told where the wedding was to be held until a week before the event.
But word leaked out that it was to take place in the town of Rhinebeck, about a two-hour drive from New York City.
People and businesses in the town who were involved in the wedding were not permitted to talk about it. Reporters were not permitted to go near the wedding. Planes and news helicopters were not permitted to fly over it.
About four hundred people reportedly attended the wedding. It was held in a huge tent on the grounds of a famous house called Astor Courts overlooking the Hudson River.
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