> When talking in public expect the public to respond.

I'm confused - how exactly was anything they did talking in public?

> We chose a remote location (Big Sur), invited no press, and did our best to conceal that location from the press. We didn’t court attention — quite the opposite, we asked guests to check their cell phones and cameras at the door and we didn’t sell our photos to tabloids.

I'm not suggesting that anybody doesn't have the right to express their opinion so much as I am lamenting that people's opinions are so childish and petty.

> lamenting that people's opinions are so childish and petty.

Fair enough. Perhaps I'm overly cynical and jaded but lamenting that is like lamenting rain is wet.

I can dream of a better world at least.

I mostly (at least try to) ascribe to the Thomas Jefferson ideal of "if it neither breaks my leg, nor picks my pocket, then it matters not to me" style of involvement with other people's business.

Aside from that, I worry about the growing perception of a media/government encouraged class war, which feeds mostly on people's completely unjustified jealousy.

I feel the same way, and I think you conflated my comment with a lot of other people being angry and caring a lot about this. I didn't even explicitly criticize the cost or extravagance, and you've read a lot into that. My point was mostly about the dissonance between his own framing of the event as a "natural" "sanctuary", and the rather un-natural reality of it. If he had said "we just wanted an all-out, spare no expense, Disneyland wedding," I would have moved right along. I thought it would be interesting to discuss, but I don't really care what he does, especially since he did make an effort to be socially responsible about it.

Fair enough. For what it's worth, my own value judgements only allowed me to complain, but I couldn't quite get far enough along in even my own vitriol to actually downvote your comment.

Apologies for unfairly representing your message. Perhaps I, too, was oversensitive to the subject - though not being a rich white guy with a history of opulent marriages, I don't know what specifically I reacted to.