Someone even likened the New York nuptials to America's "royal wedding," which would have been the antithesis of the young woman's raising. Whatever they did wrong, the Clintons did something right in rearing Chelsea.

We haven't heard much about her since she was a shy schoolgirl living in the White House. She hasn't been arrested for drunk driving, or romanced a movie star, or been a tabloid cover girl. She finished school, started to work and now has married a young man she's known for years.

Chelsea Clinton's  Private Life

The point is this: When running against the Clintons, Republicans always bragged about their stand for "family values." It was always a vague, nebulous -- some would say hypocritical -- term, but we voters knew what was meant. It harkened to Bill Clinton's womanizing and Hillary's feminism. We somehow were supposed to think Republicans had cornered the market on morality.

Guess again. The unlikely Larry Flynt made that point clear during the white hot heat of the Monica Lewinsky affair. For every Democratic skirt-chaser, he found three Republicans with loose zippers. Seems that no one political party had cornered the market on straying spouses.

As a hellbent political and professional couple, the Clintons have stumbled more than once. But from all evidence, they were on the same page about Chelsea. They fought for her privacy like tigers on the road to the White House, during a presidency kept on tender-hooks by political enemies, throughout a terribly public airing of dirty marital laundry. When an adult Chelsea campaigned for her mother during the failed Hillary presidential campaign, we were almost surprised.

Family values are different for each and every family. That's why they are called "family" values. They aren't decided by a single religion, a majority vote or one political party out to exploit mistakes of the other.

In choosing public lives for themselves, Bill and Hillary invited into their lives intense scrutiny, zealous critics and both sides of the coin stamped by fame. Some would say they thrive on it.

They had the decency, however, to protect Chelsea till she could choose a course for herself. How easy it might be for a Clinton daughter to run for office, write a best-selling book, travel the world meeting princes and trailing paparazzi. So far, at least, she's chosen a much more sensible route. As first daughter, even with protective parents, perhaps she had enough publicity to last a lifetime.

I think the abiding image this nation might have of Chelsea Clinton will have nothing to do with a fairy-tale wedding or with the peripheral hubbub like pepperoni pizzas with meat that spelled out "I Do." I think, instead, it will be the photograph of a much younger Chelsea, walking between her parents, holding both their hands, on their way to try to patch up an ailing family. Something about the young woman's body language exuded love and determination and, yes, hope.

Every marriage has problems, every family its struggles. Chelsea and her new husband no doubt will have their share of trials, self-induced and otherwise.

Something tells me that life has given Chelsea a leg up in the coping department, however. I think the family values she grew up with -- yes, while living with Bill and Hillary -- will serve her well.

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 “Dancing With The Stars” pro Maksim Chmerkovskiy has just seen his popularity quadruple as reports emerged that he choreographed the first dance of the new couple after Chelsea Clinton’s gala wedding on Saturday. Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Erin Andrews were finalists on the latest season of the celebrity dance show on ABC. Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky danced their first dance as a married couple to the song ‘Feeling Good’.

Maksim Chmerkovskiy, however, has maintained his silence on the matter. He said that the wedding was kept very personal and private and he respects their privacy. He was also asked by a website how Chelsea Clinton was as a dancer. He quickly diverted the question and asked for the next one. Apart from the star dancer, Chelsea Clinton was seen having the best professionals at her disposal on the big day. Designer Vera Wang was seen fluffing up her gown after walked up the aisle with her father. Tim Blane, who is known to be a friend of the couple had also entertained guests with a performance at the rehearsal dinner.

Maksim Chmerkovskiy is the owner of four dancing studios in New York City area. The 30-year-old dancer became a well known face after he appeared in the second season of “Dancing With The Stars”. On the show, he has been paired with the likes of Denise Richards and Mel B in earlier seasons. It was with sports reporter Erin Andrews, that Maksim Chmerkovskiy found success and finished 3rd in the competition.

Like so many aspects of Chelsea Clinton's spectacular wedding Saturday, the cake was remarkable.

The nine-tier vanilla cake, filled with dark chocolate mousse, frosted in white fondant, and decorated with 1,000 edible sugar flowers, was also gluten-free.

That's because the former first daughter is allergic to the gluten found in most cakes and breads.

The creation was a triumph for Frances and Maarten Steenman of La Tulipe Desserts in New York's Westchester County. The Steenmans, who have owned and run their business for nearly 12 years, specialize in all kinds of exquisite tarts, pies, cookies, and of course cakes, not just those that are gluten-free.

Some media outlets speculated that the wedding cake was also dairy-free because the bride is a vegetarian of long standing. But Frances Steenman said that was not the case.

"Instead of flour, we used a special brown rice blend that contains no barley, rye, oats, or wheat," she said. "But no, it was not a vegan cake."

Gluten-free baking is not easy, said Monica Glass, pastry chef at 10Arts on the Avenue of the Arts here in Philadelphia. Glass also has a gluten allergy, so she knows the difficulties firsthand.

"A lot of gluten-free recipes are more dense, but you need a recipe that's moist enough to be tasty," Glass said.

At a wedding ceremony, all eyes are on the bride, but at a reception, the cake takes center stage. So it has to look good.

"But taste," Glass says, "is foremost."

The popular bridal website TheKnot.com estimated the cost of the Clinton cake at over $11,000. But Steenman said that too was incorrect.

"I can't speak to the price directly, but what the media speculated was not true."

"We work with all budgets and all kinds of dietary requests due to allergies or religion," Steenman said, "so we were definitely qualified to do this."

And how did they transport their 500-pound masterpiece from the bakery in Mount Kisco to Astor Courts, the beaux-arts mansion built for John Jacob Astor IV, about 50 miles away?

"There was a lot of engineering behind it, and a lot of practice," said Steenman, whose husband Maarten does the designing and baking.

"Throughout the years," she said, transporting cakes "has always been the most stress for pastry chefs."

"You can't possibly travel with a cake that big stacked up," said Steenman, so she assembled it on-site and left.

She said she did not know whether her cake was the only dessert option, or whether some of the 400 guests took pieces home. But she did say with certainty that there was no sheet cake in the kitchen that was served to guests instead of the real thing, a fairly common custom at some weddings.

And, she said, the couple definitely did not want a cake topper.

Steenman said she was hoping the bride and groom saved the top layer of the cake to eat on their first anniversary. That's a tradition that Steenman said she finds especially delightful.

Knockoffs of the bridal gowns (yes, Clinton wore one Vera Wang gown for the ceremony and another for the reception) are probably already in the works. Would Steenman do a knockoff of Chelsea's cake if a bride requested it?

"No, I would not duplicate the cake," she said. "Every bride deserves a special cake of her own."

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.”