Daughter expected to recover from her broken heel injury in time for an A-list wedding set for July.
As a doting ‘FOTB’ (father of the bride) former US president Bill Clinton expects to feel “proud, grateful, wistful”, and may be even a little weepy when his only child Chelsea walks down the aisle this summer.
According to media reports, Chelsea, 30, is set to marry her childhood friend Marc Mezvinsky, an investment banker, in an A-list wedding in July. The pair have dad’s blessing.
“I like and I admire my prospective son-in-law,” Clinton told Jenna Bush Hager, former Republican president George W Bush’s daughter, during an interview on NBC’s Today show on Tuesday. “I feel grateful that they have been such close friends for half of Chelsea’s life. I look forward to what they do together, and I’m happy about that.”
Asked if he has been a part of the strenuous wedding planning, Clinton said he helps pay the bills.
“You sound like my dad,” Hager said, smiling.
Clinton then added that he was pitching in with the finer details.
“I participate,” said Clinton. “Chelsea has been good enough to include me in the decisions they’re making in how to do it, so I love that.”
Clinton, 63, said he knows the wedding will make him emotional. “I just hope I can keep it together until I walk her down the aisle and do the handoff,” Clinton said. “Like your dad was telling me when he did it with you, you know it proves you’ve done what you were supposed to do, but it doesn’t make it entirely easy.”
Clinton said the wedding day would make him remember how fast his daughter had grown up. “I’ll be thinking about the day she was born, I’ll be thinking about the first day of school.”
Hillary Clinton had earlier joked that the Middle East peace is just as hard as negotiating her daughter’s upcoming wedding.
The wedding plans are in full throttle even though the bride-to-be recently hurt her foot.
Chelsea has been hobbling around Manhattan in a medical boot and crutches after breaking her heel two weeks ago.
The New York Post reports that she’ll be off the crutches in time for the July wedding.
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