PALM BEACH — Ivana Zelnicek Winklemayr Trump Mazzuchelli added another bauble to her marital charm bracelet Saturday at a wedding where men were asked to wear white and didn't, women were asked not to wear white and did, a news helicopter drowned out the exchange of vows and the bridegroom's choice of music for his processional was the theme from Rocky.
But no matter. The businesswoman-author, 59, and Rossano Rubicondi, 35, are married, as the bridegroom declared before kissing his bride, "Finally!"
The Hon. Maryanne Trump Barry, the bride's former sister-in-law, performed the civil ceremony, which was delayed an hour because the day's 90-plus degree temperatures lingered well past the scheduled 5 p.m. start time for the outdoor ceremony at The Mar-a-Lago Club.
But the visual spectacle was worth it. Twenty-three bridesmaids, each in a different pastel shade – except pink or yellow, reserved for the bride and her maid of honor – and accompanied by groomsmen dressed in head-to-toe white, made their way down the curving "Swan Stairs" and took their place under a towering canopy of orchids and roses.
Then the bridegroom, arms raised over his head, bounded down the stairs to the theme from Rocky – an unconscious acknowledgment of the couple's legendarily contumacious relationship, perhaps – and waited for his bride to enter.
Enter she did, in an exquisite gown that in the shifting light appeared sometimes gold and sometimes pink.
In their accented English, both agreed to take each other "for better and worst" and the slightly excitable groom repeated "but a small token" as "a small butt token" during the exchange of rings.
"Not so small, really," the judge noted, referring, it is fervently hoped, to the ring rather than anybody's butt token.
After a ceremonial flyover courtesy of Delta Air Lines, Judge Barry declared the couple legally wed and the 300-plus guests – by now dehydrated, heat-stricken or severely sunburned – burst into applause and followed the happy couple into the reception room named for the bride's second husband.
Only in America.
Among the guests at the ceremony were singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka; Janice Combs – mother of music mogul P. Diddy – in a striking coral hooded dress; actress Brigitte Neilsen, the ex-wife of Sylvester Stallone, and don't we wonder how she liked the bridegroom's choice of music; David Koch, the seventh-richest man in the United States and the owner, apparently, of not a single white jacket; the bride's ex-husband Donald Trump, also apparently bereft of a white jacket; Kathy and Rick Hilton, who will forever be known as the folks who gave us Paris; and sex expert Dr. Ruth Westheimer.
Since this would be the bride's fourth wedding night, it can be assumed that the good doctor's presence was not at all in a professional capacity.
