The White House will witness another wedding this Saturday. Joe Biden‘s granddaughter Naomi Biden and her longtime boyfriend Peter Neal will tie the knot on November 19, 2022. This is not the first time that a wedding is happening at the White House. But this would be the 19th wedding ceremony to happen at the official residence of the US President.
The latest wedding happens on the South Lawn of the building. This will be the first wedding with a sitting President’s granddaughter walking down the aisle as the bride in the White House. There are so many weddings that happened in the official building. Here’s the history of the weddings that were held at the President’s residence.
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The First White House Wedding
The first documented White House wedding was between Lucy Payne, sister of First Lady Dolley Madison, and Thomas Todd. They tied the knot on March 29, 1812, most likely in the Blue Room. The first daughter who married at the White House was Maria Hester Monroe. She wedded Samuel Lawrence Gouverneur, most likely in the Blue Room. The marriage was on March 9, 1820. Similarly, the first son to tie the knot was John Adams II. He married the niece of the First Lady Louisa Adams, Mary Catherine Hellen in the Blue Room. There were also a few other weddings that took place in the East Room.
The first and only President to marry in the White House is Grover Cleveland. He married Frances Folson in 1886. The most talked about wedding in the history of the White House is the one between Alice Lee Roosevelt and Nicholas Longworth. The wedding happened on February 17, 1906. The newlyweds had cut their cakes with a military sword. Gradually, this became a tradition. President Woodrow Wilson hosted the wedding of his two daughters at the White House in the years 1913 and 1914.
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Most Recent Wedding Ceremonies
In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt hosted the wedding of his assistant Harry Hopkins. The wedding to Louise Gill Macy happened in the Second Floor Oval Room or the President’s study. Another grand wedding at the White House was that of Lynda Bird Johnson and Charles S. Robb. They tied the knot on December 9, 1967, in the East Room.
The first wedding ceremony to happen in the exterior of the White House was the marriage between Tricia Nixon and Edward Finch Cox. The grand event took place in the Rose Garden. Hillary Clinton held her brother Anthony Rodhan’s wedding to Nicole Boxer in the Rose Gardens in 1994. Finally, the most recent wedding was of the Chief Official White House photographer Pete Souza, who married Patti Lease in 2013. The wedding was smaller and private.
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