This weekend, there will be another wedding in the White House, but no details have been released.
Naomi Biden, the oldest granddaughter of President Joe Biden, will wed Peter Neal on the South Lawn on Saturday.
It’s just the 19th occasion in history that a wedding has taken place in the executive residence, and it’s the first reception at the White House since 2013.
Naomi Biden, a 28-year-old lawyer, wrote in April, “Peter and I are incredibly thankful to my Nana and Pop for the chance to celebrate our wedding inside the White House.” “We are eager to make our commitment to one another and for the future official.”
The ex-wife of Hunter Biden, Kathleen Buhle, gave birth to Naomi Biden. She is politically engaged, constantly commenting on social media about topics like abortion rights and gun control, as well as frequently criticizing Republican lawmakers.
Neal proposed in September 2021 close to his boyhood home in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, according to information from the first lady’s office. The pair originally met years ago after being introduced by friends. Naomi Biden, an associate at the legal firm Arnold & Porter, and Neal, a student at Georgetown University, are both lawyers.
Biden often discusses his bond with his grandkids and claims to chat with them every day. In 2019, Naomi Biden arranged a gathering of the family, and the grandchildren pushed Biden to challenge Donald Trump.
Many of the specifics have not been discussed by the White House. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre responded that they are respecting the couple’s request that the event be closed to the news media when questioned by ABC News White House Correspondent MaryAlice Parks on Friday about why journalists are not permitted to cover some of the wedding, as has been permitted in the past.
The president and first lady will be able to attend the wedding of their first grandchild because these are two young people who have chosen they want to spend the rest of their lives together, she added. However, the marriage of Naomi Biden and Peter is a secret one, so here’s the fact.
On Saturday, the ceremony will start at 11 a.m. ET. It will be followed by a luncheon for the wedding party and an evening celebration.
The White House previously announced that the Biden family will pay for the celebration, as is common for first families and other events at the White House.
Prior to the celebrations, trucks were spotted arriving to the South Lawn on Friday, and there were decorations there as well.
We all want to congratulate them since it is such a happy moment, Jean-Pierre added. “This is their desire, and we should be delighted for them as they take this very significant step in their life.
This month has seen a number of other high-profile political weddings. Last weekend, Tiffany Trump, the president’s youngest child, was married at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.
The history of White House weddings spans more than 200 years.
According to the White House Historical Association, Naomi Biden and Peter Neal are joining 18 previous couples who have tied the wedding at the White House.
According to Sarah Fling, a historian with the White House Historical Association, marriages in the White House date back more than 200 years to 1812. In that year, Lucy Washington, the sister of Dolley Madison, wed Thomas Todd in the executive residence.
According to Fling, a presidential granddaughter’s wedding took place in the White House for the first time this past weekend.
“The vast majority of these marriages in the White House have involved close relatives. Otherwise, there has only ever been one case of a close family friend getting married, and then there have been two White House employee weddings,” Fling added.
The most recent instance of this occurred in 2013, when Pete Souza, the photographer for Barack Obama’s White House, wed Patti Lease in a modest ceremony in the Rose Garden.
President George W. Bush and Jenna Bush are seen in this White House handout picture posing for a photographer before her wedding to Henry Hager on May 10, 2008, at Prairie Chapel Ranch close to…
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The celebration for Jenna Bush and her husband Henry Hager had just concluded before that. The two enjoyed a celebration in the White House a month after they were legally married in a ceremony at the Bush family estate in Crawford, Texas.
When Anthony Rodham and Nicole Boxer were married at the White House in 1994, it brought together two political families. Boxer is the daughter of then-California Sen. Barbara Boxer, and Rodham is the brother of Hillary Clinton, the first lady at the time.
On June 12, 1971, President Richard Nixon escorted his daughter Tricia to the Rose Garden for their wedding to Edward Finch Cox.
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Tricia Nixon, the daughter of President Richard Nixon, wed Edward Finch Cox in the Rose Garden in 1971, marking the most recent presidential daughter wedding.
According to Fling, the wedding was the first outdoor ceremony to be held in the Rose Garden at the White House. “The first outdoor wedding was nearly wrecked by rain. Fortunately, the sun came out just in time for the occasion since it was a foggy June day.
The wedding on Saturday will take place under heated tents on the South Lawn on one of the coldest November days ever, with temperatures forecast to be in the 30s and 40s.
