Celebrity Weddings
evawhite on May 30th, 2008
Give the world a celebrity wedding and all eyes are riveted on every move that the wedding couple makes. The venue, the outfits, the cuisine, the decorations, it all comes under the closest scrutiny and as for the celebrity guest list; well that is perhaps the single more important item on the celebrity wedding agenda, because if the right celebrities don’t attend, then it isn’t really a celebrity wedding is it!?
Actually it was the Jenna Bush wedding which was so uncharacteristically low key that set me thinking. This was one unusual celebrity wedding, being a quiet and private affair far from the madding media glare and the unrelenting public gaze. The reason that this wedding got me thinking is because it was definitely the exception to the rule.
Experts have suggested that the reason for this avid, even greedy appetite that the public has for celebrity weddings has something to do with the fact that the monarchy and nobility is a thing of the past. In the past the subjects used to look up their ruler to provide the pomp and circumstance for the amusement of the common citizen, now in the absence of real royalty, the celebrities have become the modern royalty who fill that void left by erstwhile monarchs or rulers.
Many celebrity weddings turn out to be free for the wedding couple and their families. The media willingly and joyfully picks up the tab in lieu of getting exclusive rights to covering the event. A case in point was the exotic Liz Hurley and Arun Nayar wedding. The two part media circus unfolded with part one staged at a castle in England and part two moving over countries and continents to another castle in Jodhpur, India. Two kinds of religious ceremonies, two sets on celebrity invitees, two castles, practically a paparazzi wet dream! Reportedly Hello magazine picked up the tab for the wedding extravaganza which included a procession of elephants, horses and camels, all elegantly decorated for the festivities in return for exclusively covering the Indian nuptials. The magazine gets what it wants the bridal couple have a free fantasy show and the public have their opportunity to enjoy all it their own voyeuristic fashion! A win-win situation if I ever saw one!
