White House Weddings & Receptions, From Naomi Biden to Tricia Nixon

White House Weddings & Receptions, From Naomi Biden to Tricia Nixon – WSJ

Naomi Biden & Peter Neal (Nov. 19, 2022)

President Joe Biden’s granddaughter will be the first presidential grandchild to marry at the White House when she ties the knot with fiancé Mr. Neal on Saturday.

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Jenna Bush & Henry Hager (June 21, 2008 reception)

Though the couple held their wedding ceremony on the Bush family ranch in Crawford, Texas, pictured here, they followed it up with a White House reception for 600 people later that summer.

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Nicole Boxer & Anthony Rodham (May 28, 1994)

Then-14-year-old first daughter Chelsea Clinton was a bridesmaid at the wedding of her uncle Tony, first lady Hillary Clinton’s brother, to the daughter of then-Sen. Barbara Boxer (D., Calif.).

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Tricia Nixon & Edward Cox (June 12, 1971)

After clouds and rain threatened the ceremony, the father of the bride, President Richard Nixon, asked the Air Force for weather updates to find the best window.

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Luci Baines Johnson & Patrick Nugent (Aug. 6, 1966)

After a Catholic wedding ceremony at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, 400 guests went to the White House for the formal reception of President Lyndon Johnson’s daughter, featuring a towering, 300-pound cake.

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Lynda Johnson & Charles Robb (Dec. 9, 1967)

Elder Johnson daughter Lynda chose to have her ceremony in the East Room only one year later. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, a fellow White House bride, was one of the guests.

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Eleanor Randolph Wilson & William Gibbs McAdoo (May 7, 1914)

Eleanor Randolph Wilson, daughter of President Woodrow Wilson, married Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo in the Blue Room.

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Jessie Woodrow Wilson & Francis Bowes Sayre (Nov. 25, 1913)

Jessie Woodrow Wilson, another daughter of President Wilson, married Francis Bowes Sayre in the East Room.

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Alice Roosevelt & Nicholas Longworth (Feb. 17, 1906)

President Teddy Roosevelt with his eldest, Alice, on the day of her wedding to Rep. Longworth, Republican of Ohio and later Speaker of the House.

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