I know you've all been glued to the New York Times live blog of Chelsea Clinton's wedding. But seriously, people -- who would ever get their celebrity gossip from a respected American newspaper? For that, we have to cross the Atlantic, where the Brits really know their tabloids. We turn to the Daily Mail for the inside scoop.
Let's see...the $3M pricetag for the wedding. The John Jacob Astor venue. The $1M engagement ring. The groom's father is a criminal. Yeah, yeah, yeah -- get to the good stuff. Ah, now we're talking: the food.
The wedding cake
LET THEM EAT CAKE
Chelsea has ordered a £7,000, five-tier, gluten-free wedding cake.
Rumours abound, but flamboyant designer Ron Ben-Israel is hotly tipped to be the man tasked with the job.
He created the cake for the gay wedding in the film Sex And The City 2.
It's great that gluten-free is really starting to take off. But a seven thousand pound cake? Seems a bit excessive to me -- that's three and a half tons. Also, I didn't see Sex and the City 2 (I'm waiting for it to come out on VHS), but if the cake is half as fabulous as the Sex in the City gourmet cupcakes, it's going to be quite a fabulous cake.
She's a vegan
WHADDYA MEAN IT'S VEGAN!
Despite her father’s famous predilection for fast food, Chelsea has been a vegan for more than a decade and has instructed society caterer Olivier Cheng to provide vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free dishes for the wedding feast.
Who knew? I wonder how Bill feels about this.
Happily for Bill, there will still be much to please those of a carnivorous bent, with grass-fed, organic beef also on the menu.
Phew. Can you imagine meat-lovers from Little Rock, Arkansas arriving at a 100% vegan wedding filled with Manhattanites? Now that would have been a spectacle. Bill lost 20 pounds for the wedding -- looks pretty good.
May the newlyweds live happily ever after and please forgive my foray into celebrity food gossip. The End.
