America's Royal Wedding: (It's Chelsea Clinton's big day - just keep Dad away from the bridesmaids!)

We all remember her as the curly-haired girl who grew up in the White House. But tomorrow a very glamorous Chelsea Clinton marries her long-term boyfriend Marc Mezvinsky in a no-expense-spared ceremony that has America gripped — and will set Daddy back a cool £3 million. Here is our guide to the big occasion.

THE BRIDE Named after the Joni Mitchell song Chelsea Morning, Chelsea has sought a life away from the spotlight. She lives quietly in a Manhattan apartment and is described as casual, modest and friendly (though they are not the first words that spring to mind with her nuptials).
She has blossomed from the gawky corkscrew-curled 12-year-old who entered the White House in 1992 into an assured young woman who has a strong relationship with both parents, even in the storm of her father’s adultery with Monica Lewinsky.
Ferociously bright, Chelsea studied history at the Ivy League Stanford University before taking a masters in International Relations at Oxford — where she reinvented herself with a sleek makeover, being named by Tatler as one of the world’s most eligible females.
In 2003 she returned to New York to work for management consultancy McKinsey & Company, and later a small hedge fund run by one of her father’s major supporters. She’s now studying for a master’s degree in Public Health at New York’s Columbia University.
Despite hitting the campaign trail for her mother’s Presidential bid in 2008, Chelsea has made it clear she has no intention of following in her parents’ political footsteps.

Relations between Bill and Hillary Clinton and Edward Mezvinsky, who was jailed for fraud in 2001, are said to be cool.

THE VENUE
Chelsea and Marc certainly had no shortage of highly attractive offers when it came to choosing their venue.
President Obama offered the White House, while actor Ted Danson, a family friend, suggested his spectacular home and gardens on Martha’s Vineyard.
But the couple finally settled on Astor Courts, the 50-acre former estate of millionaire John Jacob Astor IV nestled on the Hudson river in Rhinebeck, about 90 miles north of New York City.
Around £400,000 has been spent on erecting the marquees, while a further £75,000 has been spent on the tables and crockery.

LET THEM EAT CAKE
Chelsea has ordered a £7,000, five-tier, gluten-free wedding cake.
Rumours abound, but flamboyant designer Ron Ben-Israel is hotly tipped to be the man tasked with the job.
He created the cake for the gay wedding in the film Sex And The City 2.

IF YOU THOUGHT BILL WAS BAD...
The Clintons, of course, barely need an introduction. He was the super cool saxophone-playing President — and she came within a whisker of the Oval Office.
Together they’re the biggest power couple in the world. Rumours of their earnings have hit an eye-popping £70 million.
Hillary — or ‘MOTB (mother-of-the-bride) as she has taken to signing emails to friends — is said to have micro-managed every last detail of the nuptials, and Chelsea has instructed Bill to lose 15lb in order to look the part when he walks her up the aisle.