Could Clintons Ruin Other Bride's Wedding?
What to do if Chelsea Clinton, Marc Mezvinsky Rhinebeck wedding is same weekend.
July 26, 2010— -- It's a bride's nightmare: You spend two years planning a wedding only to find out that the former president's only daughter is getting married a few miles away.
Road closures, paparazzi and possibly military helicopters flying overhead could ruin your perfect day.
For Emn Haddad-Friedman and Alex Bero, that nightmare has become a reality.
The pair of 28-year-olds booked a wedding site in New York's Hudson Valley two years ago. Little did they know that Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky would choose the nearby village of Rhinebeck to tie the knot the same weekend.
"I know she's not doing it on purpose," Haddad-Friedman, a Brooklyn-based schoolteacher told Yahoo Shine the other day. "But Chelsea Clinton has taken what was supposed to be a special day for me [and] turned it into hell."
The big issue is that Haddad-Friedman and Bero are getting married north of Rhinebeck in Germantown and their reception is taking place south of Rhinebeck in Staatsburg.
Guests driving down Route 9 from the ceremony to the reception normally would pass right through what is going to be the Clinton-Mezvinsky wedding circus.
Village Mayor James Reardon said there are going to be road closures surrounding the event "but nothing major."
He said guests at Haddad-Friedman and Bero's wedding will be able to get between the two towns with minor detours.
"I think her concerns are completely unfounded," Reardon told ABC News. "You are going to go a few miles out of your way, but I don't know why she is saying this is going to mess up her wedding plans, because it's not."
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