Chelsea Clinton's lavish, star-studded wedding ceremony will cost between $3 million and $5 million

Joe Dziemianowicz New York Daily News 07/26/2010 20:16

Chelsea Clinton will wed fiance Marc Mezinsky in a lavish ceremony estimated to cost at least $3 million dollars. That's what it takes to get Oprah as a guest.

Here comes the bride. There goes the cash. On Saturday Chelsea Clinton is set to marry her investment-banker boyfriend Marc Mezvinsky at a posh private estate 90 miles north of Manhattan. The hotly anticipated, highly secretive affair has been called the Wedding of the Decade and of the Century.

Extravagant and notable events like that don't come cheap.

Experts in all things nuptial ballpark the cost of Bill and Hillary Clinton's little girl's big day at anywhere from $3 million to $5 million.

That's a lotta lettuce. And wedding cake.

"I don't think we've seen a wedding with this much attention since Patricia Nixon," says Donnie Brown, a wedding planner featured in "Whose Wedding Is It Anyway?" on the Style Network.

"This will definitely be the biggest wedding of the year."

At the more conservative cost of $3 million, that's a half-million behind Liza Minnelli and David Gest and a cool $1 million ahead of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes.

But this is different from your garden-variety superstar wedding, experts concur. This union includes world leaders and, well, Oprah.

"It's bigger and more important than a celebrity wedding," according to celebrity event planner Diann Valentine. "It will certainly be the most influential of setting trends. If anything becomes public knowledge it will immediately set a trend."