We Want A White House Wedding!

Hey, I just realized that the odds are looking good for a wedding at the White House during the next five or six years. If the First Twins don't get engaged soon, maybe Cate or Chelsea or Meghan or Jackie will serve up the glam and glitz of a presidential wedding.

Here's the scoop on weddings in the past (the photo, courtesy of Miss Shari, is of a garbage can covered with clippings describing Tricia's wedding that was sent to the Nixon family and is now in the Nixon Museum ... nice gift, eh?):

There have been 17 weddings at the White House. Although three presidents were married while in office, only one -- Grover Cleveland -- was married at the White House, June 2, 1886, in the Blue Room.

Eight daughters had White House weddings -- Maria Monroe (1820), Elizabeth Tyler (1842), Nellie Grant (1874), Alice Roosevelt (1906), Jessie Wilson (1913), Eleanor Wilson (1914), Lynda Bird Johnson (1967), and Tricia Nixon (1971) -- but one only son -- John Adams, son of President and Mrs. John Quincy Adams (1828).

Four weddings for members of the families of first ladies -- one sister, one brother, and two nieces. One presidential niece, one daughter of a presidential friend and one presidential assistant make up the final three weddings.