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that alone was a massive thing to handle. There were
seven hundred press, approximately, that covered it,
and we only had four hundred guests, so the press out-
numbered the guests two to one. Now these were not
just reporters, of course, they were technicians and
the various kinds of people that really are support
people to the press. But we issued almost seven
hundred credentials, a little over seven hundred
credentials to cover that wedding. And it was a
massive undertaking and a great deal of coordinating.
We were removing press here and there.
And, of course, Tricia wanted to maintain, and
rightfully so, a certain amount of privacy to the
wedding, and so we had to restrict coverage of the
actual ceremony itself. And, I have to say, the press
did understand and were most cooperative about the
whole thing. But I think we had something like
thirteen different pools of reporters. And there would
be, you know, six to ten reporters, and what we were
trying to do was give everybody an opportunity to
actually see some part of the wedding. So we really
had to schedule it out on a minute to minute basis as
to how long each aspect of the wedding would last, and
how many reporters and photographers could be in the
room, or in the garden, or wherever the devil it was.
And I had to provide an escort service to move the
pools, a number of them, and, oh, my God! What a
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