I found out that there’s been
seventeen weddings in White House. Not
all weddings were from the immediate families. Here’s the list. I find it quite interesting, actually, the
names of the participants. There were a number of weddings held at a different
location with receptions held at the White House. Jenna Bush is the latest of the brides whose
reception was held there.
March 29, 1812
Lucy Payne Washington (Dolley
Madison’s sister)married Thomas Todd on the State Floor, probably in the Blue
Room.
March 9, 1820.
Maria Hester Monroe (daughter
of President and Mrs.James Monroe) married Samuel Lawrence Gouvemeur (Mrs.
Monroe’s nephew) on the State Floor, probably in the Blue Room.
February 25, 1828
John Adams (son of President
and Mrs. John Quincy Adams) married Mary Catherine Hellen (Mrs. Adams’niece) in
the Blue Room.
April 10, 1832
Mary A Eastin (Rachel
Jackson’s niece) married Lucius J. Polk in the East Room.
November 29, 1832
Mary Anne Lewis (daughter of
a close friend of President Andrew Jackson) married Alphonse Pageot in the East
Room.
January 31, 1842
Elizabeth Tyler (daughter of
President and Mrs. John Tyler) married William Waller in the East Room.
May 21, 1874
Nellie Grant (daughter of
President and Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant) married Algernon Sartoris in the East
Room.
Emily Platt (niece of Lucy
Hayes) married Russell Hastings in the Blue Room.
June 2, 1886
President Grover Cleveland married Frances Folsom in the Blue Room.
February 17, 1906
Alice Lee Roosevelt (daughter
of President and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt) married Nicholas Longworth in the
East Room.
November 25, 1913
Jessie Woodrow Wilson
(daughter of President and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson) married Bowes Sayre in the East
Room.
Eleanor Randolph Wilson
(daughter of President and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson) married William Gibbs McAdoo in
the Blue Room.
August 7, 1918
Alice Wilson (niece of
President Woodrow Wilson) married Isaac Stuart McElroy, Jr., in the Blue Room.
July 30, 1942
Harry Hopkins (assistant to
President Franklin D. Roosevelt) married Louise Gill Macy in the Second Floor
Oval Room (then the president’s study).
December 9, 1967
Lynda Bird Johnson (daughter
of President and Mrs. Johnson) married Charles Spittal Robb in the East Room.
June 12, 1971
Tricia Nixon (daughter of
President and Mrs. Richard Nixon) married Edward Finch Cox in the Rose Garden.
Guess who the older woman is? If you guessed Alice Roosevelt, you were correct.
May 28, 1994
Anthony Rodham (brother of
Hillary Rodham Clinton) married Nicole Boxer in the Rose Garden.
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