May 22, 2012

Now playing at a bar mitzvah near you Jon Bonjovi

Todays New York post as a full story on the bar mitzvah party circuit, including how one girls parents hired Jon Bonjovi to sing at her 13th birthday

Sandler’s older daughter, Carly, had an even fancier party in 2008.

For Carly’s grand entrance, she descended from the ceiling of Cipriani Wall Street harnessed to a wire and dressed in a catsuit.

Then she was serenaded by Jon Bon Jovi for 45 minutes — to the point where she was rolling her eyes at her mother, wondering when the aging rock star would cede the stage back to her and her girlfriends.

“My husband did well that year and he was proud of himself, and he wanted to throw a huge party,” Liza explained.

The stunning blonde was married at the time to mega-wealthy hedge-funder Andrew Sandler. They’ve since split.

Liza wouldn’t disclose her budget for her older daughter’s birthday bash, but a source estimated that party ran into seven figures, easily.

But even those who don’t go to such lengths certainly don’t pinch pennies when it comes to their child’s coming-of-age ritual.

The children spend a year, if not more, studying Hebrew, learning prayers, and preparing to read from the Torah. And while the kid is bent over the books, his parents are bent over their checkbooks.

Then she was serenaded by Jon Bon Jovi for 45 minutes

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