Upstate N.Y. Hamlet Buzzing Over Chelsea Clinton Wedding

(July 4) -- Residents and business owners in Rhinebeck, N.Y., are buzzing with the news that their quaint, upstate New York hamlet will host the wedding of former first daughter Chelsea Clinton, reports said.

Though local caterers and hotel workers have remained quiet, the manager of Rhinebeck's historic Beekman Arms Inn confirmed his hotel was booked solid during the reported weekend of Chelsea's wedding -- July 31st -- at the historic and very private Astor Courts estate nearby.

"There's this insane buzz. It's the talk of the town," Gianny Andreini, 33, who works at the Rhinebeck Smoke Shop, told the New York Daily News. "You can't walk down the street without someone asking about Chelsea's wedding."

Speaking on Polish television yesterday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said her daughter's upcoming nuptials to longtime family friend Marc Mezvinsky are constantly on her mind.

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Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky will marry at the end of July.

"It truly is the most important thing in my life right now," she said.

The "I do's" also seem to be quite exciting in Rhinebeck, located 60 miles north of New York City, where Chelsea is a graduate student at Columbia University and her fiance is an investment banker. Local residents said Astor Courts is an ideal location for the high-profile wedding, which will likely send throngs of paparazzi chasing shots of the newlyweds and their reported 400 guests.

According to the Daily News, the estate was home to John Jacob Astor, who died in the Titanic in 1912. It's situated at the end of a long, unmarked road and protected behind gates that would be strictly blocked to photographers.

"We are historic, scenic and offer the family the privacy and seclusion that they wouldn't be able to find anywhere else," town resident Doug Warren, 52, told the newspaper.