Last-minute preparations for Microsoft heiress Jennifer Gates’ $ 2 million wedding on her horse ranch in Westchester have reached a climax today.
Workers rolled up hydrangeas and other plants en masse Saturday morning as police cars blocked the highway that led to the sprawling property where the daughter of billionaires Bill and Melinda Gates will make her marriage vows to her professional horse fiancé shortly after 2 p.m.
“I hear you making last-minute preparations over there now,” said Linda Dupree, whose home is on the 25-year-old bride’s land in North Salem. “I thought I heard Michael Buble sing, but maybe it was just a recording. The delivery vans have been coming down the street all morning. “
Choral music was also heard from the horse farm as dozens of caterers in black shirts and pants walked outside the wooden barns and U-Haul and Ryder trucks pulled into the driveway. Silver heaters and lanterns waited to be moved into position.
Final preparations begin on October 16, 2021 when Jennifer Gates, the daughter of Bill and Melinda Gates, prepares to marry Nayel Nassar.BACKGROUND
The wedding dinner and rehearsal for the wedding ceremony took place at the Gates family home at 397 Mills Road. About 25 people at the bridal shower, including Melinda and Bill Gates, attended the evening rehearsal.Paul Martinka for New York Post
The wedding reportedly cost $ 2 million.Elder Ordonez / SplashNews.com
The wedding takes place on Jennifer Gates’ 124-acre, $ 16 million farm in North Salem.Paul Martinka for NY Post
Dupree said the main stage of the wedding, which has been under construction for several days, resembles “a beautiful botanical garden”.
The bride’s parents arrived yesterday at the sprawling $ 16 million horse farm they bought for their eldest daughter after graduating from Stanford University in 2018. It’s the first time the Gates have been seen together since their divorce in August. The couple was married for 27 years.
Photos showed the bride and groom posing for photos on Friday with Bill Gates and other family members on the lush grounds of the horse farm.
The final preparations for the ceremony took place on October 16, 2021.Paul Martinka for NY Post
Gates and Nassar are expected to take their vows shortly after 2 p.m.BACKGROUND
Staff are making final preparations before the $ 2 million ceremony.Elder Ordonez / SplashNews.com
The crews prepared the North Salem farm on October 16, 2021.Elder Ordonez / SplashNews.com
“It’s fantastic,” said Peter Van Raalte, 63, an investor who lives in nearby Briarcliff while cycling the area. “Bill bought this house four years ago. How do you build something so beautiful? You can tell that it is a super high quality construction. Everyone should have a great wedding. “
Jennifer announced her engagement to Nassar, 30, who was born in Chicago and raised in Kuwait and California, in an Instagram post last year. Nassar’s Egyptian parents, Fouad Nasser and Iman Harby, are directors of Diwan Interiors, an architecture firm based in Kuwait.
“Nayel Nassar, you are unique. Absolutely knocked me off my feet last weekend and surprised me at the most significant point about one of our many common passions, ”wrote Gates in the caption.
300 people are expected at the wedding. BACKGROUND
On the morning of October 16, 2021, the crews made final preparations.BACKGROUND
On October 16, 2021, the final preparations were made at the Westchester horse farm. BACKGROUND
Employees have built huge, raised pavilions with floor-to-ceiling glass windows on the $ 16 million land area of 124 acres.BACKGROUND
