Originally published Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 12:00 AM
"I do," done Crawford style
So close and yet so far: Tiny Crawford is sort of like a bridesmaid at arm's length from Jenna Bush's wedding today. All of the action will...
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Here comes the quiz
Although the wedding and most of its details have been kept under wraps, tidbits have slipped out. Test your wedding IQ.1. How many bridesmaids will be in Jenna Bush's wedding?
2. Who was the last child of a president to get married while their father was still in office?
3. How many children of presidents have been married during their father's presidency?
4. How many weddings of presidents' children have been held while their father was in office?
5. Who was the only president to be married at the White House?
6. Who designed Jenna Bush's dress?
7. How many children of presidents have chosen to be married at the White House?
8. Who is Jenna Bush's maid of honor?
9. Who was the only child to get married in the Rose Garden while her father was president?
10. Whose wedding in 1966 featured a 300-pound cake?
11. Who was the only son of a president married at the White House?
Answers below
Quiz answers
1. 14. These women are not called bridesmaids, but members of the "house party."2. Dorothy Bush, the daughter of President George H.W. Bush. After divorcing her first husband, Dorothy was quietly married for the second time on June 26, 1992, at Camp David, Md.
3. 21. Jenna Bush is the 22nd.
4. 22. Jenna Bush is 23. Elliot Roosevelt, son of President Franklin Roosevelt, married two times while his father was in office.
5. President Cleveland. Presidents Tyler and Wilson also were married during their presidencies, but their weddings were held elsewhere.
6. Oscar de la Renta.
7. Nine. The first was Maria Hester Monroe, 17, on March 9, 1820.
8. Her twin sister, Barbara Bush.
9. Tricia Nixon married Edward Cox in an elaborate Rose Garden ceremony in 1971 that boosted the popularity of her father, President Nixon.
10. Luci Baines Johnson, the younger daughter of President Johnson, was married to Patrick Nugent at the National Shrine of Immaculate Conception in Washington but had a reception at the White House that included a 300-pound cake decorated with swans.
11. John Adams II, son of John Quincy Adams.
Source: "All the President's Children" by Doug Wead
CRAWFORD, Texas — So close and yet so far: Tiny Crawford is sort of like a bridesmaid at arm's length from Jenna Bush's wedding today.
All of the action will be at President Bush's 1,600-acre ranch seven miles outside the one-stoplight town.
Friday night's rehearsal dinner was even farther away, 54 miles from the ranch in a town called Salado, meaning the more than 200 Bush family and friends invited to the nuptials might never even set foot downtown Crawford.
"It's a private ceremony. It's an exciting time for the Bush family," White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said Friday. "They're all beginning to converge here in Texas and in Crawford and I know the president and Mrs. Bush are really looking forward to this weekend."
The bride, first lady Laura Bush and daughter Barbara weren't even in Crawford most of Friday. Early in the day, the three attended a bridal lunch for family and friends at an inn in Salado, more than an hour's drive south of Crawford. They stayed the day in the small tourist village, founded before the Civil War, getting ready for the evening events. The president made his way solo to Salado.
There the parents of the groom, Henry Hager, hosted the rehearsal dinner for members of the family and the wedding party at the Old Salado Springs Celebration Center in the heart of the town filled with coffee shops, western-style stores, antiques, eateries and clothing shops.
Later, all of the wedding guests were invited to what was billed a "Texas-sized celebration" at the Salado Silver Spur Theater in the village, once a stagecoach stop.
With no hotels in Crawford, local residents are more likely to welcome tourists who just want to say they were in Crawford when Jenna Bush married her longtime boyfriend.
It wasn't until late this week that the downtown began to show signs of the event, which will end up in presidential history books.
A white banner with red wedding bells on either side of "Congratulations Jenna and Henry" stretches across a local storefront.
A few doors down, a white wedding veil adorns an 18-foot metal sculpture of an angel, a gift to Crawford in 2004.
Some businesses, such as The Yellow Rose, are doing a brisk business selling coffee mugs with the couple's photo inside a red heart.
Down the street, a life-size cardboard cutout of a much-younger Bush greets patrons at The Red Bull Gift and Gallery. There, visitors can buy $3 Jenna and Henry key rings, a $10 mouse pad emblazoned with the smiling couple or a mug with the same photo and date of their marriage.
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