Naomi Biden’s nuptials will be just the 19th wedding to take place at the White House in 222 years, and only the second since the turn of the century
hosted the wedding of White House photographer Pete Souza in the Rose Garden in 2013. Souza’s wedding to Patti Lease was the last time a wedding took place at the White House.Former White House Photographer Pete Souza on Serving Two Presidents and Trolling a Third
The wedding, broadcast to millions in the television era, was so elaborate that it stunned even previous White House brides like Alice Roosevelt Longworth, who wed there in 1906. When a TIME reporter asked her if the day brought back memories for her, she said, “‘No, it doesn’t bring back one goddamned memory. I was married before the days of Hollywood. This is quite a production.’”
In some ways, a White House wedding reflects the style of a presidency. Luci Johnson was married in the largest Roman Catholic church in the Western Hemisphere—in a ceremony to which, as Comedienne Edie Adams said, “only the immediate country was invited.” Tricia’s wedding will obey a Nixonian instinct for the via media. It will be neither the largest nor smallest: a simple spectacular.
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