The beautiful Swiss couple had exchanged vows in a storybook wedding ceremony downhill. Now they have been roasted shots of schnapps and a dapper young artist took the stage.
Hired for only 75 pounds, he regaled the guests with a stream of corny jokes, sang some traditional folk ballads goat-herders, and to achieve a slick, soft-shoe shuffle.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, there is no mention of early career, Sepp Blatter, as a wedding singer on his resume grand - Another long before he became the fabulously rich and untouchable godfather of world football, c How was it stepped up its revenues.
Look around the 75-year president of FIFA yet another corruption scandal scandal this week, somehow clinging to power as the rotten heart of his fiefdom has been exposed, could not help thinking that it has been tap dancing since.
For someone who really loves football, as I do, it was hard to stomach the sight of this conceit, gnome of Zurich-thinking boundaries triumphantly on the podium FIFA Congress - his granddaughter 10 years old, Selena in one arm, an enormous bouquet in the other - after being re-elected unanimously.
He received a bear hug from one of the greatest footballers ever, Franz Beckenbauer (these days that another crony Blatter) and hectored the British delegation to the boycott dare mock election is all the show nauseating.And the more all the time, a question gnawed.
How did this balding, glasses, plump little man, whose style veers between that of a bank manager and a few boring songs zany host Eurovision Song Contest, held in a position of absolute power as it is celebrated by the kings and emirs?
Although Blatter holds court in Zurich, where he maintains an elegant apartment in the most exclusive residential area and works 14 hours a day in the hills FIFA vast fortress, with its football-shaped hedges, elegant rooms and a terrace restaurant, his story does not begin there.
The saga of his vain pursuit of glory, wealth, power - and beautiful young women - is beginning to Visp, a remote, picturesque Alpine town of 6,000 people. Blatter was raised there and always returns, most weekends, to be near his only daughter, Corinne, the wife of a pub owner and his granddaughter - he describes as "my greatest gift. "
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