> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Wedding Rewind: White House Weddings - URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/wedding-rewind-white-house-weddings/ - Published: 2020-10-27T15:44:28.000Z - Updated: 2022-04-09T17:27:08.000Z - Author: Jessica - Tags: #wp, #wp-gallery, #slideshow, #Import 2026-10-07 08:09 ## President Grover Cleveland and Frances Folsom, 1886 ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2020/10/shutterstock_editorial_10275864a-1603745143.jpg) Mandatory Credit: Photo by Everett/Shutterstock (10275864a) Front Page of Frank Leslies Illustrated Newspaper, June 12, 1886\. The wedding at the White House, June 2nd--the Mothers Kiss, runs the caption of the full page picture of the wedding of President Grover Cleveland and 22 year old Frances Folsom Historical Collection Behold! Here's some coverage of the wedding of President Grover Cleveland and Frances Folsom, a union to be much side-eyed! He was 49, her Dad's friend, and the executor of her father's estate, and had, per Wiki, "supervised her upbringing." (It's hard to say how closely this was done given that he was a man and lived in another state in the 1800s; I cannot imagine he was really that involved in the day-to-day.) She was 21! That's highly questionable and kind of gross, but Wiki assures me that the public was fine with it! (I assume a lot of WOMEN gave each other Meaningful Looks about this, however.) Anyway, they had five kids, she was apparently very popular, and once Cleveland kicked it, she married an archeology professor and then told everyone she didn't think women were smart enough to vote. Stuff it, Frances! ## President Roosevelt and Mr and Mrs Longworth, 1906 ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2020/10/GettyImages-463974581-1603745090.jpg) President Roosevelt and Mr and Mrs Longworth, 1906, (1908). President Theodore Roosevelt (right), with his daughter Alice and his son-in-law Nicholas Longworth on the occasion of their marriage. Illustration from The Story of the White House, by Esther Singleton, Volume II, (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1908). (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images) Voila! It's Teddy Roosevelt (on the right), with his daughter Alice and her new husband, Nicholas Longworth. That gown is blue -- it was her signature color -- her train is resplendent, and [she led a VERY interesting life](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%5FRoosevelt%5FLongworth?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io), and sounds like she was a hoot and a handful who was born before her time. (For example, she once campaigned against her own husband here and had a child who was not his. She was banned from several White Houses! She is the person who coined the phrase, "if you can't say anything nice, come sit by me." DEFINITELY read her linked Wikipedia page.) ## 1967 ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2020/10/shutterstock_editorial_10307547a-1603745164.jpg) Mandatory Credit: Photo by Everett/Shutterstock (10307547a) Alice Roosevelt Longworth with Capt. Charles Robb and Lynda Johnson at their White House wedding. Dec. 12, 1967\. 82 year old Alice was married in White House in 1906, when her father Theodore Roosevelt was President. Historical Collection And here she is, sixty-one years later, at the wedding of LBJ's daughter Lynda to Capt. Charles Robb. (She also attended Tricia Nixon's wedding.) She once allegedly said she wore wide-brimmed hats so that LBJ couldn't kiss her and INDEED! Here is the proof. ## Eleanor Randolph Wilson, 1914 ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2020/10/shutterstock_editorial_10277307a-1603745154.jpg) Mandatory Credit: Photo by Everett/Shutterstock (10277307a) Eleanor Randolph Wilson (1889-1967), Woodrow Wilsons youngest daughter, in her wedding gown. She wed Wilsons Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo at the White House on May 7, 1914\. Historical Collection Information Caption shares that Eleanor here was Woodrow Wilson's youngest daughter, who married his 50 year old Secretary of the Treasury, William Gibbs McAdoo. This look has TRULY a lot of tulle, as was the manner of the time. Her Wiki is very bare bones, especially compared to Alice's, which could be a novel; [the photo of her featured is lovely, though](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor%5FWilson%5FMcAdoo?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io), and [her New York Times obit is a much more robust read](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/04/07/90316224.html?pageNumber=37&ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io), and informed me that she was often on best-dressed lists. This dress does feel as if it were quite au courant at the time., and to me her bouquet is perfect. Anyway, she and the groom divorced in 1935 and he apparently IMMMMMEDIATELY turned around and married a twenty-six year-old nurse six weeks later. He was 72! Calm down, McAdoo! ## Luci Baines Johnson, 1966 ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2020/10/GettyImages-515497910-1603745102-scaled.jpg) (Original Caption) Mr. and Mrs. Pat Nugent with their wedding cake at the White House as President and Mrs. Johnson look on during the reception following Luci's wedding, August 6th. Let's zip ahead to the 60s! Luci Johnson -- LBJ and Lady Bird's younger daughter -- got married in a Catholic ceremony in a church (she converted to wed this dude), but the reception was at the White House, so to my mind it counts. This is a very large cake! Their wedding was televised, and [had massive coverage in Life Magazine](https://books.google.com/books?id=qlUEAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=luci+johnson+wedding+life+magazine&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TLipVPHvDoqmNq6hhLAG&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAw&ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io#v=onepage&q&f=false). (It's on the cover, but you have to scroll a bit to get to the wedding coverage itself. Pretend you live in olden times and are using the microfiche machine. Her bridesmaids look like cult members to me, but I rather like her dress.) ## Lynda Bird Johnson and Charles S. Robb, 1967 ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2020/10/shutterstock_editorial_6012618a-1603745119.jpg) Mandatory Credit: Photo by AP/Shutterstock (6012618a) Johnson Robb Newlyweds Marine Corps Capt. Charles S. Robb and Lynda Bird Johnson pose with their parents in the Yellow Oval Room in the White House in Washington, D.C. on . Standing from left to right are, first lady Lady Bird Johnson, President Lyndon B. Johnson, the bride-groom, James S. Robb and Mrs. Robb WHITE HOUSE WEDDING JOHNSON ROBB, WASHINGTON, USA The Johnson administration did not leave the American people wanting for weddings. (Which was probably good for PR -- Americans in general enjoy eyeballing a wedding.) From left to right we've got: Lady Bird Johnson, President Lyndon B. Johnson, the bride, the groom, and the groom's parents. Truly, Mrs Robb's look here takes it for me. The glasses! Meanwhile, I might hate Lynda Bird's dress, which is by Geoffrey Beene, and I DEFINITELY think her bouquet is way too small. Truly fun fact: She dated George Hamilton prior to this. ## Tricia Nixon and Edward Cox, 1971 ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2020/10/shutterstock_editorial_10308168a-1603745178.jpg) Mandatory Credit: Photo by Everett/Shutterstock (10308168a) Mr. and Mrs. Edward Finch Cox at their White House wedding in the Rose Garden. First daughter Patricia Nixon was married on June 12, 1971\. Historical Collection Tricia Nixon's bouquet is ALSO tiny. But her dress has aged very well -- [she also got the cover of Life](https://www.abebooks.co.uk/Life-Magazine-June-1971-Tricia-Nixon/30333900053/bd?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io#&gid=1&pid=1) and you can really see it there -- and this was the first wedding held in the Rose Garden. Julie Nixon, her sister, got married to David Eisenhower in a tiny private ceremony right after Nixon was elected, and you can read all about that [in this really interesting Washington Post piece](https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2018/12/22/julie-nixon-married-david-eisenhower-years-ago-refused-white-house-ceremony/?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io). She and Tricia seem to have often been at odds, because when I was looking for details about this dress (designed by "Priscilla," who also did Luci Baines Johnson's dress, and who was apparently a thing for society brides in the '60s), I stumbled on a piece where Julie called Tricia "the Howard Hughes of the White House," which is A BURN. ## Tricia Nixon and Edward Cox, 1971 ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2020/10/shutterstock_editorial_7333980b-1603745131.jpg) Mandatory Credit: Photo by AP/Shutterstock (7333980b) President Richard Nixon applauds as his daughter Tricia and her husband Edward Finch Cox, cut a giant wedding cake at the White House Edward and Tricia Cox Wedding Behold this GIANT CAKE! The New York Times reported that [it was a pound cake and that when they tried its recipe, it was a disaster](https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/dining/wedding-cake-recipe-tricia-nixon-cox.html?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io). (It's a funny piece; they apparently kept trying to get it right and kept failing.) Big finish! [Wedding Rewind: White House WeddingsAs our thoughts turn to the residents of 1600 Pennsylvannia Ave.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/bf/b9/bfb99790-924d-4e41-a7e6-5e3c6e04fe57/content/images/static-gofugyourself-com/uploads/2020/10/gettyimages-463974581-1603745549.jpg)](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/white-house-weddings-10-2020/)