It’s official: Chelsea Clinton will marry longtime boyfriend Marc Mezvinsky in the summer of 2010.
The
former first daughter, 29, and her new fiance sent an e-mail to close
friends on Friday announcing their engagement and joking about the
persistent wedding rumors circulating last August.
{mosads}“We didn’t get
married this past summer despite the stories to the contrary,” they
wrote in the e-mail, “but we are looking toward next summer and hope
you all will be there to celebrate with us.”
Clinton and Mezvinsky
have known each other since they were both teenagers living in
Washington, but they didn’t start dating until after they graduated
from Stanford University. Mezvinsky works for bailed-out Wall Street
firm Goldman Sachs, while Clinton is getting her master’s degree at
Columbia University’s School of Public Health.
According to close
family friends, the wedding will likely take place on Martha’s
Vineyard, Mass., where the Clinton family has vacationed nearly every
summer since Chelsea was an adolescent. Expect an A-list political
crowd: In addition to Chelsea’s famous parents, Mezvinsky’s mom and dad
are also political figures: former Rep. Ed Mezvinsky (D-Iowa) and
former Rep. Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinksy (D-Pa.).