When you realize you’re finally getting married after eight years of waiting, you kind of want to share the news with everybody — even Prince William.
New Yorkers Bill White and Bryan Eure mentioned their upcoming nuptials to his royal highness at a veterans event in Los Angeles this month. After William offered an, “Oh, that’s terrific. Congratulations!” the couple asked if he might share any wedding tips. “He said, ‘If you just make sure one person is the final decision-maker, and you’re OK with that, you’ll be all right,’ ” says White.
Princely advice aside, Eure describes the wedding-planning process as “a team effort — I dream it up, and Billy makes it happen!”
White, the former president of the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum who now heads the Constellations Group strategic consulting firm, and Eure, who works in commercial insurance, describe their wedding style as conservative, classy and tasteful.
Oh, and big.
In addition to a small church ceremony at St. Bartholomew’s and a wedding-eve reception at GOP fund-raiser Georgette Mosbacher’s Fifth Avenue home, the couple expects a jaw-dropping 600 guests at their September celebration at the Four Seasons — the first same-sex wedding in the restaurant’s history. The guest list includes three former presidents (George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush), two New York governors (Andrew Cuomo and David Paterson), multiple media luminaries (Barbara Walters, Anderson Cooper, Bob Pittman), a secretary of state (Hillary Clinton), two four-star generals (David Petraeus and James Amos), and prominent attorney David Boies, who will serve as best man.
And what’s in store for all those boldface names?
“A tremendous, very masculine party. It’s going to be one of the most exciting events the Four Seasons has ever done,” says restaurant co-owner Julian Niccolini, who hinted at a floating wedding cake bobbing in the pool and a performance by the New York Pops orchestra.
From May 20, 2010 The Wall Street Journal:
Bill White, the president of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum resigned Wednesday, one year after the New York State Attorney General began investigating him as part of a widespread probe into financial marketing firms operating without proper licenses.
In May 2009, Mr. White was subpoenaed by New York State Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo after he was found to have been operating as an unlicensed placement agent, a position marketing financial investments to pension funds. Bill White & Associates allegedly received a $2 million fee from City Investment Fund L.P., a real estate investment fund co-sponsored by real estate company Fisher Brothers that received pension fund business. A spokesman for the attorney general's office confirmed that Mr. White had been subpoenaed, but declined to comment further on an ongoing investigation.
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And that, dear children, is what happens when vulgar ostentation teams up with gay Republicans.
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