The $1 Million Chelsea Clinton Wedding
The estimated cost of Chelsea Clinton’s wedding this evening is $1 million* and that is a very low estimate.
Obscene, simply obscene.
Talk about failing in the cardinal virtues of prudence and temperance.
With so much suffering and poverty in the world the cost of this wedding is very selfish**.
The wedding itself is a joyful event to celebrate the cleaving of one man and one woman, though the cost that the Clinton’s have incurred are simply imprudent and antitemperant to put it lightly.
Coming from a scion of the Democratic Party that claims to be for the poor, this isn’t unusual. It’s a typical mindset of most Democrats that would rather take other peoples money to redistribute rather than their own for the common good.
How can I say they are selfish if they are spending the money to celebrate a joyful event?
It is selfish because instead of spending the money for the poor they spent it on themselves.
* In comparison Jenna Bush’s wedding only cost $100,000 (still obscene if you ask me).
** Talk about stealing from the poor.
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Agreed, Tito, although God knows the Clintons have the money now to spend. Estimates of their net worth as a couple are anywhere from US $40 million-$100 million!
Actually, I’ve also seen estimates on different news sites pegging the minimum cost of the wedding at US $2 million, and up to $5 million at the high end of the estimates–yikes!
The $5 million figure probably included the dowry. I can’t see anyone accepting Hillary as a mother-in-law for less than $4 million.
I’ve seen estimates as high as US $12 million, but I stuck to the low estimate in fairness.
If the accounting includes the cost of the security detail which follows both Mr. and Mrs. Clinton around, it is less deplorable.
I believe Bill Clinton, because he is a former US president, and his family have lifetime secret service protection.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secret_Service#Former_Presidents_and_First_Ladies
I think my wedding, all said and done, cost around $5k… in 2002 dollars.
The Pope’s visit to England may cost England $15 million US and the Vatican donation to Haiti was only $250,000 and in 2009 the Vatican donation to all poor countries was 20 million.
Let’s not single out the Clinton’s as wasteful or neglecting the poor… because of their wrong abortion position while letting our own habits go unexamined because it is Rome.
I can’t imagine the expenses John Paul II’s visiting habits entailed on people over the years.
What if many of the recipients of the money were teetering on going out of business or unemployment, would this sum still be considered obscene?
test
the Vatican donation to all poor countries was 20 million.
Not taking your figures as stipulated, I would point out that the Church is highly decentralized and the sum of people employed by the Holy See is fewer than 5,000. I think there are around 2,500 employed in the modest diocese in which I reside.
Wow, nice to see someone addressed THE burning issue of the day
Should the $5 million cost estimate be correct, that would place the Clinton nuptials in the top five most expensive celebrity/millioniare weddings of all time. Even if it costs “only” $2 million that puts it in the same league as Tom Cruise-Katie Holmes, Madonna-Guy Ritchie, Liza Minnelli-whatshisname, etc.
Of course, what do you expect from a wedding for 1) an only daughter of 2) a former president AND a current Cabinet official 3) who have lots of friends in Hollywood, D.C., on Wall Street, etc. and 4) whose own wedding was very low key and arranged with only a week’s notice (meaning, Hillary may be trying to give Chelsea the bash she never had).
The cost does include security, because even though Bill, Hillary and Chelsea themselves have Secret Service protection, a lot of their A-list guests probably have personal security details/bodyguards who will also require accomodations.
I agree the Clinton wedding seems rather excessive and one need not spend six or seven figures to have a joyous and memorable wedding. (I did it for less than $5,000 in 1994).
I gotta say though, and I apologize if this comes off as kinda reverse sexist, it’s easy for a guy to say that money spent on a wedding is “selfish” and should have been spent on the poor… one could make the same argument about money spent on classic cars, boats, trucks, or events like the Super Bowl, World Series, Olympic Games, NASCAR races, etc.
Have to say the pope’s visit was uplifting to Catholics around the world. Don’t see how Chelsea’s wedding could bring upon the same spiritual uplifting.
Misspam
Christ thought it was fitting to give the young couple at Cana 120 gallons of wine.
And their names are never mentioned. That’s a lot of wine and it was great quality which in US dollars could well have been $25,000 just for the second stage of the wine drinking.
As for how permanent an uplifting effect of a papal trip has beyond momentary exciitement,.. that would be impossible to document…wouldn’t it?
Good post. My comment is here:
http://commentarius-ioannis.blogspot.com/2010/07/sundays-scripture-readings-20100801.html
The other question: the Clintons have never done anything but government, and they’ve wound up with millions of dollars to blow on a wedding. That points out the flaws of our system better than anything else.
Mark Noonan
“the Clintons have never done anything but government”
What about the speaking fees and book deals they have made? Yes, I realize their public life is the reason they have those speaking and book contracts, but still, it isn’t the government paying those contracts.
If PRIVATE citizens and groups didn’t care to hear them speak, and private book publishing companies weren’t interested in what they had to say, they would never have made the millions they now have.
I’m not saying this because I’m any fan of either Bill or Hillary (far from it), just trying to be factual here.
My wedding in 1962: $30.00 for fabric to make my own dress; less than $100.00 for wedding cake. Flowers, probably $60.00. Stipend for the priest-? Stipend for organist: $30.00. Celebrated 48 years of wedded bliss this year. Let’s see how Chelsea & hubby last, hopefully a lifetime. I’ve played organ for many weddings in the past. My theory: the number of years of duration of the marriage is in inverse proportion to the number of attendants AND the cost. One could almost tell at the rehearsal if the marriage was going to be permanent. Pouty brides-to-be, mothers insisting on this and that. One bride was determined there was going to be NO NOISE out on the street; the church was located on a busy boulevard. No child would dare whimper or cry at her wedding. Well, everything was perfect until the photographer dashed upstairs to take photos as the couple came down the aisle; her tripod knocked the organ plug out of the wall and all the sound went down, and then back up, when she plugged the organ in. Those Hammonds had a way of ruining everything…I reminded her that SHE was to admit to the dastardly deed.
So….
She’s Methodist, and he’s Jewish.
Interesting combo.
I’d say the Jewish will win out.
The bride in the most beautiful and most Christian wedding I have ever witnessed wore a pale yellow dress, with seasonal flowers (from her parents’ fields) in her hair; the groom wore a new business suit. There were no decorations, and the reception was at the house of the brides’ parents. The money not wasted on irrelevancies was used to send the couple on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostella after they finished university.
“I’d say the Jewish will win out.”
I suspect not. Most Jews in American today are ultra-secular. The Jewish in this marriage probably lost out long ago. Not that the Methodist will win out either.
If he only got $4 million for Hilary as a mother in law, I’d say the Clintons got off cheap.
OK everyone, enough of the weak moral relativism arguments of the Papacy vis-a-vis the Clintons. That’s insulting enough when you consider that the Clintons are at best crafty politicians.
Spending $2-5 million on any wedding is beyond ‘hey look at me’ arrogance. It’s pure elitist ghoulish hubris and it’s even funnier coming from those progressive ‘party for the regular people’ types.
Bill Banon, thanks for the laugh for comparing the dollar value of the wine at Cana. Wasn’t it a MIRACLE that Jesus used good ‘ol water as the input resource hence a much lower cost than the ‘high quality wine’? Perhaps they forgot to teach/discuss basic economics at that Netroots Nation liberal blogger conference?
Great stuff!