MANHATTAN — City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is dishing on preparations for her long-awaited spring wedding — but don’t expect a Kardashian-style affair.
While her office has been tight-lipped about her wedding plans, Quinn was happy to gush when radio host John Gambling asked her whether her upcoming nuptials would resemble over-the-top, multimillion-dollar extravaganza between Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries — whose marriage was over within weeks.
“God I hope not! What did that last? 72 days?!†sputtered Quinn, an open lesbian who swore she would not wed until gay marriage was legal in New York. “It would really be a kick in the ass to work so long and hard to get the bill into law and then then to stay for 72 days!â€
“It won’t be like that,†she assured, with a laugh.
Quinn will be marrying her longtime partner, lawyer Kim Catullo, on May 19 in Manhattan, and with less than two months to go, the Speaker’s already-packed schedule is in overdrive, including still hunting for her dress.
“I’m a little bit feeling like I’m 22-years old again, running around, trying excessive numbers of dresses on and things like that,†she told Gambling during a WOR radio appearance Friday morning.
She was on the air to discuss the upcoming introduction of controversial legislation that would boost the minimum wage for workers on certain city-subsidized development projects, but wound up talking wedding prep with the third-generation radio host.
“It’s been great fun picking out dresses for the flower girls and all of that kind of stuff you think of when you’re a little girl, and for some of us, we felt would never get to happen,†Quinn said. “It’s something I think everybody, to some degree or another, kind of wait a long time for."
"But given the particular, unique circumstances about marriage equality in New York and in this country, it’s something Kim and I have particularly waited a long time for."
Quinn’s office has yet to disclose where the speaker will make her vows, but Quinn said she and Catullo are planning a family-centered affair, meaning that her father, Lawrence, who often appears at her side, will likely have a starring role.
“We’re very lucky to have both of our dads. It’s really, it’s going to be a lot of friends and family and a lot of family involved in the event and in the ceremony," she said.
Gambling also asked Quinn about her not-so-secret mayoral ambitions, asking when she intends to officially declare a run.
“I think anybody who’s thinking of running for mayor or any of the city-wide positions in 2012 . . . people are going to wait, I would assume, to kind of officially declare — whatever that means nowadays — until we finish with the next round of elections, of which there are a lot on the local and national level," she said.
