Pierre Karl Pladeau, Julie Snyder to wed in Quebec City
Wedding between Quebec billionaire, millionaire to feature $20 wines, vegetarian menu
Saturday will be the social event of the summer in Quebec, and it will feature agroom on a bicycle, 400 guests and a wine list featuring wines under $20 only.
These are a few of the details that have been unveiled for the wedding of Parti Qubcois leader Pierre Karl Pladeau and TV host and producer Julie Snyder.
"I call it the royal wedding. It's beginning to feel like that," said Lise Ravary, a columnist and blogger for the Journal de Montral.
Ceremony in 1663 building
The ceremony, which will take place Saturday, will be held inside a historic building in Quebec City.
"It's going to be held in a place called the Muse de l'Amrique francophone, which is inside the old seminary of Quebec City, which was built in 1663 by Monseigneur Laval ...There's a chapel in there. It's not a consecrated chapel anymore so it's not a religious wedding it's a civil wedding," she said.
Quebec City Mayor Rgis Labeaume will be the officiant at the ceremony for the long-time common law partners, who have two children together.
'What are they trying to say?'
Pladeau is expected to make a unique entrance.
"He is going to arrive to the ceremony on a tandem bike a bicycle built for two with his son Thomas," said Ravary.
The 400 guests will be served a vegetarian menu, and Quebec wines with price tags under $20 a bottle.
"What are they trying to say with this? That they are ordinary folks? He is a billionaire and she's a millionaire, and they're serving a $16 wine to make a statement?" Ravary said.
"I don't know if they're trying to send a message... With Pierre Karl Pladeau and Julie Snyder, you never really know when the personal becomes political and when the political becomes personal."
The event is expected tobe a who's who ofQuebec pop culture and politics.
All of the PQ caucus is expected to be in attendance.
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