The $15,000 Toilets at Chelsea Clinton's Wedding

By Jane McEntegart
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Sure, everybody poops, but does everybody poop in style?

I've been on holiday, so I spent the last week sleeping in, playing StarCraft II and reading trashy magazines, which included plenty of column inches devoted to Chelsea Clinton's wedding. The nuptials supposedly cost just over $5 million and Chelsea's dress was a beautiful Vera Wang creation with a price tag of more than $25,000.

The wedding was extravagant and I'm sure all the itty-bitty details of place cards and morning-after brunches are captivatingly interesting, but the part I got most excited about were the high-tech porta-loos.

Oh yes, if you attended the former first daughter's wedding, you got to pee in style in one of the fanciest porta-loos around. Decked out with flushing porcelain toilets and urinals, stereos, lights and hot water (and probably hand towels too), these aren't impressive as far as regular bathrooms go (where are the telephones and flat screens?). But where porta-loos are concerned, these are pretty high-tech and definitely not the same bog roll deficient porta-loos we've all come across at some point or another in our lives.

How much do these cost? TMZ reports that the Clintons forked out about $15,000 for between four and six of the trailers. I'm adding this to the list for when I become rich and famous and, eventually, a lady of leisure.

Source: TMZ via Gizmodo

Jane McEntegart

Jane McEntegart works in marketing communications at Intel and was previously Manager of Content Marketing at ASUS North America. Before that, she worked for more than seven years at Tom's Guide and Tom's Hardware, holding such roles as Contributing Editor and Senior News Editor and writing about everything from smartphones to tablets and games consoles.

61 Comments Comment from the forums
  • cp8427
    Let's hope taxpayers aren't flipping the bill for this one.
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  • Assmar
    Have you ever been inside a porta-potty? Worth every penny.
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  • Onus
    What a waste. No pun intended.
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  • milktea
    Let me sit in one of these porta-potty and play with my smartphone. :D
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  • el33t
    Had they spent that
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  • icepick314
    "about $15,000 for between four and six of the trailers."

    so it's between $2500 to $3750 each....

    not bad when you look at it that way.....
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  • el33t
    Had they spent those money in Africa to combat hunger rather than to buy toilet seats, it would have been much fruitful....
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  • HavoCnMe
    Why does it seem like the world is coming to the end? Because, everybody is spending ridiculous amounts of money for crap.
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  • FLanighan
    Who's Chelsea Clinton?
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  • if they had spent it on africa they would have fed some people for a few weeks who would have then died.... doesnt seem so fruitfull to me
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