LITTLE ROCK — CHELSEA’S BIG DAY:
New details are trickling in about the impending wedding nuptials of Arkansas’ and the nation’s former first daughter - Chelsea Clinton to Marc Mezvinsky.
Surely you remember her mom and dad, Bill and Hillary?
New York magazine has the scoop on the July 31 ceremony, supposedly not on Martha’s Vineyard but somewhere in New York instead.
“The wedding planner will contact each guest directly a week in advance and let them know where it is,” says a fundraiser, who speculated that the Hamptons are out because the L.I.E. [Long Island Expressway] can be a very long road. The smart money, then, is somewhere upstate, possibly in Westchester or DutchessCounty - most likely on property owned by a Clinton supporter. “You really see who their closest friends are in this list,” says an insider. “It’s not a celebrity-driven wedding.”
The Huffington Post reports:
“Former DNC [Democratic National Convention] chairman Terry McAuliffe may have been helping out with the location’s selection. ... According to ‘bride-side sources’ only 400 people will be invited - including donors, campaign, State Department, and Clinton Foundation staff, foreign dignitaries, and both Clinton and Obama White House officials, but Chelsea says she must personally know every guest.”
The Huffington Post adds that the word on the street is that Chelsea will wear adress by Oscar de la Renta.
Hmmmm ... will be interesting to see exactly how many Arkies land invites.
EDUCATION BY DESIGN:
Rising star and multiple award-winning interior designer Tobi Fairley of Little Rock will launch a series of “Design Camps” in July. During the sessions, those interested in design can visit her studio and take hands-on classes in design principles and decorating. The first one kicks off in July.
MONEY TALKS:
According to a Razorback football blog - hogville.net - Brittany Hightower waited 15 hours in line at Wal-Mart to buy her new iPhone 4G last Thursday.
But when an NFL lineman and Camden native, Stacy Andrews, who didn’t want to stand in line himself, offered her two grand, cash, for her phone, she took him up on his offer.
So now Hightower can eventually buy a new phone and still have a healthy hunk of green left over in her wallet.
HIGH NOTE:
Michael Warrick, an 11th-grader at Mills High School and a cellist in the Arkansas Youth Symphony, has landed a spot on the American Honors Orchestra and last week visited New York, where he appeared on the CBS morning news show Saturday. The orchestra also played a special performance in Carnegie Hall that evening.
Paper Trails appears Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Contact Linda Caillouet at (501) 399-3636 or at lcaillouet@arkansasonline.com.
Arkansas, Pages 7 on 06/28/2010