Jenna Bush says 'I do'
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Jenna Bush says 'I do'
From Elaine Quijano
CNN White House Correspondent
CRAWFORD, Texas (CNN) -- First daughter Jenna Bush and Henry Hager,
the son of a well-connected Virginia Republican, said "I do" Saturday
on President Bush's 1,600-acre ranch near Crawford, Texas.
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Jenna Bush married Henry Hager during a ceremony Saturday on the Bush
family ranch in Texas.
The president and the bride picked "You Are So Beautiful" for their
father-daughter dance, band leader Tyrone Smith of Nashville, Tenn.
told The Associated Press. Smith and his 10-piece party band, The
Tyrone Smith Revue, was asked to do "Lovin' in My Baby's Eyes" by Taj
Mahal for the newlyweds' first dance.
Smith, who witnessed the wedding ceremony, told AP afterward the groom
was dressed in a dark blue suit with powder-blue tie and the bride
wore a "very simple and elegant" white dress, but did not wear a veil.
Smith said Jenna Bush's paternal grandparents, President George H.W.
Bush and Barbara Bush, spoke during the wedding, though he could not
hear their comments.
The AP re****ted the festivities began Friday with a bridal lunch,
rehearsal dinner and post-rehearsal dinner celebration in Salado, a
tiny tourist village, which used to be a stagecoach stop. Jenna, her
sister and the first lady were in Salado, more than an hour's drive
south of Crawford, all day Friday and the president arrived in the
evening by motorcade.
"I had to face some very difficult spending decisions, and I've had to
conduct sensitive diplomacy. That's called planning for a wedding,"
Bush told the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce on March 12.
The plans had been largely under wraps, but they called for gathering
by a lake in front of an altar and 4-foot-high cross made from Texas
limestone.
"This is the time when the wildflowers are all blooming. And I think
it will be a very, very lovely wedding, and it will be very like Jenna
and Henry," first lady Laura Bush recently said.
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