Bucking tradition, Jenna plans low-key nuptials
USA TODAY, May, 2008 by Maria Puente
Jenna Bush is getting married Saturday, a semi-historic event that America will not get to see. CNN will not be going live to the ceremony. People magazine will not be snapping cover pics. Paparazzi will not be hanging from hovering helicopters.
That's because Jenna, the first presidential child in decades to marry for the first time during her father's term, will not be married at the White House. One of President Bush's twin daughters, Jenna, 26, will marry Virginia Republican scion Henry Hager, 29, in an outdoor wedding at her parents' country retreat near Crawford, Texas, secluded with about 200 of her closest family and friends.
The speaker of the House, ambassadors and lobbyists, justices and lawmakers, princes and potentates -- the usual mob at White House weddings -- they're staying in Washington.
And don't ask for many details; the Bush White House says this is a ...