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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 33

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