With just two days to go for Chelsea Clinton's marriage, U.S. President Barack Obama is yet to receive an invitation to the “Wedding of the Decade” and may have to learn “gate-crashing” skills if he wants to make it to the big ticket event here.
In a rare appearance on a daytime television talk show, Mr. Obama said he had not been given an invitation to the wedding of the daughter of the former President, Bill Clinton, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
“I was not invited to the wedding because I think Hillary and Bill, properly, want to keep this thing for Chelsea and her soon-to-be husband,” said Mr. Obama on ABC's The View. “You don't want two Presidents at one wedding. All the secret service, guests going through [metal detectors], all the gifts being torn apart,” he quipped.
“Wedding of the decade”
30-year-old Chelsea will marry investment banker Marc Mezvinsky on Saturday in Rhinebeck, New York, in a ceremony which, U.S. media say, is estimated to cost up to five million dollars. According to The Hudson Valley News , talk show queen Barbara Streisand, filmmaker Steven Spielberg and media mogul Ted Turner are likely to attend the event.
