The image shows the bride posing with her mother, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and her grandmother, Dorothy Howell Rodham.

The picture shows more of Clinton's ivory strapless gown with a laser-cut organza ballgown skirt and a sparkly belt, which was designed by Vera Wang, and also gives a better look at her mother's dress, a fuchsia gown with floral details by Oscar de la Renta.

A guest at the wedding told People magazine that when the mother of the bride walked down the aisle, "it took your breath away."

"She looked stunning-like a princess. She was beaming," the guest continued.

A friend of the secretary of state added that she was "so thrilled and over the moon about the dress" and her role as mother of the bride.

And another friend of the Clintons told the magazine it was important that Chelsea's grandmother, seen in the photo wearing a grey dress with a sparkly brooch, was included in the big day.

"It was so important to Hillary to share her daughter's day with her own mother. When the three of them are together Hillary isn't the secretary or the senator or the celebrity -- she is her mother's daughter and her daughter's mother."

Chelsea Clinton married Marc Mezvinsky in a much-talked-about ceremony last Saturday in Rhinebeck, N.Y.

Who needs pre-wedding dance lessons from that Arthur Murray guy when you can get choreography from "Dancing With the Stars" pro Maksim Chmerkovskiy instead?

Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky's "sultry" first dance as husband and wife — part of a little wedding celebration that went down Saturday in New York — was not only on-trend, wedding reception wise, but it was choreographed by the ballroom pro, People reports.

"It was an amazing, funny, unexpected dance," a friend of the bride told the mag.

Chmerkovskiy partnered with Erin Andrews in the most recent season of "DWTS" and has in the past danced with Tia Carrere, Laila Ali, Denise Richards, Misty May-Treanor, Willa Ford, Debi Mazar and Mel B, who was the runner-up that cycle.  

— Christie D'Zurilla

Biggest question in the fashion industry who made Chelsea Clinton’s wedding dress? 

The bride-to-be was spotted entering Vera Wang’s New York studio, wearing a big floppy hat, reportedly for a fitting. The mother-of-the-bride, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is also getting ready for the big day. Hillary Clinton is rumored to be wearing Oscar de la Renta.

The cost of the wedding is estimated to include $125,000 to $200,000 for the venue, $750,000 for the catering (by Blue Ribbon Restaurants, St. Regis and Olivier Cheng Catering and Events), $250,000 for the flowers, $40,000 for the music, $35,000 for photography, $30,000 for security, and $15,000 for the wedding dress. 

WWD’s Wednesday, July 28, cover features Chelsea Clinton, obscured by a large floppy hat, arriving at Vera Wang’s midtown showroom in New York City on July 27 to meet her Secretary of State mom, Hillary Rodham Clinton, who was already there. Reportedly, Wang is doing the bridesmaids’ dresses, the flower girls’ dresses, as well as the all-important wedding dress. And supposedly Hillary and Chelsea have met with Wang five to 10 times over the last four months

Rhinebeck has been buzzing for weeks in anticipation of the high-profile nuptials between the former first daughter Chelsea Clinton and her longtime boyfriend, 32-year-old Marc Mezvinski, an investment banker. Extensive preparations have been made, and reports speculate that the wedding costs could total $2 million.

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No details of the wedding itself have leaked, yet, nor have we seen the bride. But we have seen the father of the bride, twice, and the mother of the bride once. They gave a two-second wave to the cameras last night as they alighted from their van for an after-dinner party at the stately Beekman Arms, where many of the wedding guests are staying.

Former President Clinton, wearing a suit jacket and gray pants, had definitely lost weight, per Chelsea’s instructions. By cutting out junk food and exercising more, we were told, he actually lost more than 20 pounds, going five pounds further than his daughter had ordered.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton wore a flowing, floor-length green print dress, her hair was brightly blond and she was grinning broadly.

Mr. Clinton made his first foray into town earlier Friday, having lunch at Gigi Trattoria, a local eatery, where he skipped dessert. Curiosity and celeb fever had built to such a fever pitch here, where hundreds of news media and pseudo-media have been encamped for a week, that Laura Pensiero, who owns Gigi Trattoria, said Mr. Clinton may have made the appearance simply “to let some steam out of the kettle.”

We don’t expect to see the Clintons today, but the crowd is already gathering at the main intersection here in this subdued, old-money town along the Hudson about two hours north of New York City. Tonight, the sky is expected to be set aglow by fireworks after Chelsea and Marc Mezvinsky, who works for a hedge fund, say their “I dos.”

The prospect of seeing the Clintons and any other celebrities has gripped residents, who uniformly describe “Chelsea’s weekend” as a “royal” event. Up to 500 people are expected to attend, and many of them wandered out of the Beekman last night in their evening finery to get a drink at Gigi Trattoria.

“I’m star-struck!” said Melodie Molinare, 50, the postmaster of Rhinebeck, as she stood on the packed street corner, held back by wooden police barricades. “I want to see them. I don’t have to touch them. I want to see Chelsea in her dress.”

Among those spotted going into the Beekman Friday included Madeleine Albright, the former secretary of state, with Vernon Jordan, the well-known Democratic power broker. (Mr. Jordan is not a well-recognized figure up here, and one man in the crowd across the street identified him as Hamilton Jordan, the late top aide to Jimmy Carter. Another identified him as Warren Buffett.)

One man in the crowd confidently identified another guest as Steve Madden, the shoe designer, who quickly raced inside the inn from a van. We have not been able to confirm that. 

He also identified another guest as Kobe Bryant, but we were told Mr. Bryant is not attending.

The vast majority of guests looked to be in their late 20s or 30s, perhaps college and work friends of the bride and groom. Perhaps they will be celebrities some day, but for now they can rest comfortably in their anonymity. They seemed to be a mixture of Arkansas and the hedge fund world. One blonde in a ballooning yellow dress walked across the street to the gawkfest and took pictures of the locals, then had her picture taken with them, then posed with a bemused and very patient state trooper.

“We don’t know who we’re looking at,” one bystander complained. “My God, they all look like they’re in their 20s. They’re kids! Seriously, I want to see Oprah.”

Onlookers clearly had varied definitions of celebrity. While one local was excited about spotting Terry McAuliffe, the celebrity spotting was less exciting for Rachel Squillante who lives in Manhattan but returned home to Rhinebeck for the weekend to catch a glimpse of some stars. Ms. Squillante, 24, and a friend had heard that Jennifer Lopez was in town. But the only big name guest they saw was Ms. Albright whom Ms. Squillante’s friend didn’t know.

Oprah Winfrey, Barbra Streisand, John Major and Steven Spielberg are said to not be coming. Still, several locals insisted that Ms. Winfrey had been spotted at the Holy Cow, a nearby ice cream shop, on Friday.

The anticipation in the crowd last night reached such a frenzy that when state troopers lined up between the gawkers and the guests, a woman from an Italian television station yelled to one of the troopers to move. “We can’t see!” she said. He smiled.

Arlene Newman drove with two friends from Castleton, a small town near Albany, to get a glimpse of the former president and the bride. After eating dinner, they waited more than two hours across from the Beekman Arms hoping to spot them.

“We heard Bill was here today,” Ms. Newman said. “We love him. My mom is in a nursing home. She loves him. We wish them well. It’s royalty. It’s our royalty.” She added that until now Ms. Clinton had succeeded in keeping her life private. “They left her alone,” she said. “They didn’t hound her like Princess Diana.”
As Ms. Newman’s friends chatted about how beautiful Chelsea Clinton had become since her youth and reminisced how she led her parents across the White House lawn following the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Ms. Newman agreed. “Aye, yi, yi. I hope she has lots of babies.”

Earlier in the evening, a handful of local business owners raised some sparkling wine at the Blue Cashew Kitchen supply to toast the vows of Marc and Chelsea. Ms. Pensiero said that at lunch yesterday, Mr. Clinton arrived at her restaurant with his half-brother, Roger, and a half-dozen guests whom she believed were friends and relatives. She said the former president greeted guests, shook hands with the kitchen’s workers and filled the restaurant with so much “electricity in the air” that “nobody had much of an appetite.” She said that she thanked Mr. Clinton for having lunch there and “he thanked me for putting up with the chaos.” Ms. Pensiero’s catering business had already been busy all week delivering roughly 200 meals a day to different businesses working on wedding preparations.

Other businesses already had benefited from the boost in business. Maureen Missner, whose shop Paper Trail is believed to be helping to prepare the gift bags, talked about how different the feel of this wedding was compared to last year when the actor Griffin Dunne held his wedding in the area and local residents spotted celebrities like Hugh Jackman.

She said that comparing it to Mr. Dunne’s wedding put these festivities into perspective. “This is not a star-studded wedding,” said Ms. Missner. “This is clearly about the bride and groom.”