Celebrity: Chelsea Clinton Wedding Day Details

*** President Clinton and Sec. Clinton's only child is getting married July 31st. Check out what she might be wearing for her wedding dress from the Vera Wang and Oscar de la Renta videos.



Vera Wang Calla Lily wedding dress


From Denny: The big buzz is "So what is she wearing?" Chelsea Clinton has played it smart as the only child of a world famous political couple. It's amazing she has been so successful at remaining low profile to date.

Celebrity watchers are all speculating as to who made her dress. It's been rumored to be Oscar de la Renta, but also a contender is designer Vera Wang. Whatever Chelsea wears she will look stunning in it as she is fit from studying dance for so many years. She definitely did not inherit her father's fast food chugging ways.

Featured here are three of the most popular and very elegant wedding dresses from Vera Wang's collection.





Vera Wang Joan wedding dress







Vera Wang Dorothy wedding dress






Check out the leaked wedding day details so far. Chelsea will be married somewhere within two to three hour drive time of New York City. Guests will not be told where to go until the last few days before the wedding. The ceremony will be "tented" as the caterers say, safe from prying camera eyes in a helicopter overhead if the media does manage to figure out the site of the wedding. Let's hope they don't spoil it for the couple and leave them alone on their special day. No word yet as to whether they will be married by a Christian minister or a Jewish rabbi - or both in a joint ceremony.

The guest list is a modest amount, numbered to be 400. Can you imagine being a world famous couple, in politics for decades, and your only child will only allow you to invite up to 400 people? Can you imagine just how many people the Clintons know well? Try trimming down that guest list! The caveat that Chelsea herself decided is that she must personally know each and every guest. She only wants people at her wedding that have a relationship with her, not just her famous parents. There are literally thousands of Clinton friends and many have never spoken to Chelsea, so that should narrow down the list.

Any way you look at it, Sec. Clinton is excited and happy to be making wedding plans for her daughter. Hillary has cleared her busy diplomatic schedule just to give her enough breathing time to prepare for and enjoy her daughter's wedding day. Hillary is a hard-charging and tireless worker. I'd say she's earned her well deserved special time with family this month.



Watch CBS News Videos Online


*** THANKS for visiting, feel welcome to drop a comment or opinion, enjoy bookmarking this post on your favorite social site, a big shout out to awesome current subscribers – and if you are new to this blog, please subscribe in a reader or by email updates!

*** Come by for a visit and check out my other blogs:

The Social Poets
Visual Insights
Beautiful Illustrated Quotations
Poems From A Spiritual Heart
The Healing Waters
The Soul Calendar
Dennys Funny Quotes
Dennys Food and Recipes

Students Now Stand 4 Famous Math Teacher in Stand and Deliver Movie

Actor Edward James Olmos, left, and Teacher Jaime Escalante, right, whose life story was featured in the movie "Stand and Deliver"


From Denny: "Stand and Deliver" is one famous movie from 1988 of one man who stood up against a defeatist attitude educational - and expectational - system to help his students rise out of poverty. He taught them how to rise out of poverty thinking on many levels.

He was their inspirational spiritual coach as much as their math teacher. His students excelled in the nation's toughest college entrance math exam in algebra and calculus. It was previously thought that higher math could not be learned by lower income kids in Los Angeles at Garfield High School. This teacher, who left the lucrative space industry to teach in the projects, proved them all wrong. His kids went on to successful lives because of him.

His name is Jaime Escalante and he is now age 79, suffering from what may be incurable bladder cancer as doctors have given him only a few months to live. His former students are coming to his aid, since the cancer has drained all his financial resources. So far they have raised $19,000.

There is a direct appeal from the famous Hollywood actor, Edward James Olmos, who played the teacher in the movie. To donate to Escalante's Health Fund, go here.

This has long been one of my favorite movies because it is such an extraordinary act of love and dedication from this man for his students. If you have never watched it, please rent it today. You will be inspired and amazed.

Even as ill as he is, Jaime Escalante says he is not giving up. Even though he is weak from the treatments he still pitches his teaching, "I came up with one idea: you don't count how many times you are on the floor. You count how many times you get up." What a strong spirit; what a class act.

Jaime Escalante devoted his life to honoring and cultivating the best in others. A man who gave so much of himself in service to the next generation should not have to worry about bankruptcy in his old age from health care bills. This an example of why we need health care reform today.



Watch CBS News Videos Online


*** THANKS for visiting, come back often, feel welcome to drop a comment or opinion, a big shout out to awesome current subscribers - and if you are new to this blog, please subscribe in a reader or by email updates!