Posts from: July 2010

Bryan Rafanelli, owner of Rafanelli Events and event-planner extraordinaire, has a long list of clients that includes nonprofits such as the American Red Cross and Boston Public Library; deep-pocketed corporations like Ralph Lauren and Louis Vuitton; and wealthy individuals like Red Sox owner John Henry.

Rafanelli’s most recent clients? The Clintons.

The Boston-based event planner was chosen by Bill and Hillary Clinton to oversee the super-secret nuptials of their only daughter, Chelsea Clinton, who married her investment banker beau Marc Mezvinsky on July 31.

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There’s busy, and then there’s Bryan Rafanelli.

The Boston-based event planner chosen by Bill and Hillary Clinton to oversee the super-secret nuptials of their only child, Chelsea, isn’t returning calls. Even if the former president and his wife, the secretary of state, hadn’t imposed a news blackout, Rafanelli has been unavailable for weeks, engrossed in the details of a wedding that’s drawing interest around the world.

The former first daughter is expected to marry her investment banker beau, Marc Mezvinsky, in upstate New York on Saturday. The wedding, rumored to cost as much as $2 million, has cast a bright light on the 48-year-old Rafanelli, whose reputation for orchestrating sumptuous parties has won him high-profile admirers from Boston to Washington to Palm Beach.

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Why haggle with caterers and feud with fussy florists when Rafanelli can battle on your behalf? Masterminding major corporate events and intimate nuptials alike, these planners pride themselves on thinking of couples as a brand, so everything – from flowers to linens to floor plans – reflects their unique tastes,” Rafanelli’s Emily Lalone says.

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