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(Downloaded from Us Magazine)
Perhaps it is not fair to criticize Chelsea's choice of a wedding gown (and groom), and I should just let her live her life to the best of her ability. As I wrote earlier, the groom is the son of a convicted politician. That is hardly the groom's fault (or Chelsea's). Still, the reason she is in the limelight is because of her infamous parents. And, who can ignore her husband's notorious family background? Perhaps they were destined to meet and wed.
I couldn't help make these notes as I followed her wedding story. I headed the list with the title:
Wedding Mishaps
a. The most relevant news to me was that the wedding was "interfaith," with both a Methodist Minister and a Rabbi presiding over the ceremony. Will Chelsea convert to Judaism, as is customary for non-Jewish brides? Will her children be Jewish? Will they become a modern, atheist/pagan family with their own "creative," created rituals encompassing some Jewish, some Christian, and some "other" elements, as was the wedding?
b. During the ceremony, Chelsea dropped her husband-to-be's ring.
c. The wind flipped a page of the Minister's prayer book, leading him to forget some of the words. Chelsea was able to remind him of them, and the ceremony continued.
d. Chelsea, innocently enough, chose a poem which served as a code for British spies.
e. The National Post wrote a long article on the poem titled "Deadly Wedding Poems." The newspaper's sardonic take was that the poem deals with death (even if we ignore its cryptic elements).In contrast, here is what Jenna Bush wore at her wedding.
f. I have written a negative review of her wedding dress, from the choice of the designer to the dress itself. Even the celebrity-adulating television show Entertainment Tonight used some unflattering words like: "raw-edged tussles," "asymmetrical bodice" to describe the dress.
g. Of course, the under-reported political news of the whole wedding is that her husband's father, Ed Mezvinsky, is a convicted felon, who served time in prison. Here is a quote from Politics Daily about Mezvinksy Sr.:Marc Mezvinsky is the son of two former members of Congress. His mother, Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky (D-Pa.), served one term (1992-1994) and his father, Edward M. Mezvinsky (D-Iowa), served two (1973-1977.) Ed Mezvinsky pleaded guilty in 2002 to swindling dozens of investors out of $10 million and served five years in prison. He was released in April 2008, but remains on federal probation and still owes almost $9.4 million in restitution to his victims.
