Copyright © 2008-2009 Timothy Horrigan
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I do feel the need to pass this little item on, in the
meantime. It sounds like a joke but it was true. Jenna Bush (now
known as "Jenna Hager") did indeed offer Ellen Degenres
the use of her parent's ranch for her upcoming nuptials. This
happened on May 22, 2008 during the taping for the May
28 edition of the "Ellen Show" The media (and
myself) have been jumping all over the marriage angle of this
appearance, even though the main reason Jenna and her mom were on
the show was to promote their new blockbuster children's book, the
instant classic Read
All About It! Ellen has announced that she will be marrying her girlfriend Portia DeRossi, now that gay marriage is legal in California (though not Texas.).
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These are all official White House photos (although I tweaked the color settings, etc.) There are unlikely to be any unofficial photos because all cellphones and cameras were confiscated before the guests were allowed to go to the events. The guests were family and friends: the highest ranking politicians (aside from the two President George Bushes) were Jenna's Uncle Jeb and Henry's mentor Lord Karl Rove. The officiant at the lakeside ceremony (held in fromt of a spooky limestone cross) was a Black minister from Houston named Pastor Kirbyjon Caldwell, who is an old family friend. I will be gradually editing the page over the next few days to reflect the fact that the wedding did in fact happen as planned. There were nasty thunderstorms and tornadoes all over the south central U.S. on May 10, 2008, but they missed Crawford, Texas. |
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oops, my bad, wrong busses... |
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these are the right busses!
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At least two blogs have used wedding-related material they scrounged up from my site, which is cool.
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[May
10, 2008; 10:30pm EDT] So far the official picture has apparently not
been released. We do know a few details, however. The ceremony was
performed by a longtime Bush family friend, Rev.
Kirbyjon H. Caldwell of the Windsor
Village United Methodist Church in Houston— who
ironically is a Barack
Obama supporter. The father-daughter dance at the
reception was the old Joe Cocker song "You Are So Beautiful"
performed by the Tyrone
Smith Revue. The couples first dance was Taj Mahal's "Lovin'
in My Baby's Eyes. " ("Super T" heads a wedding band
with a 70s funk and blues flavor to it.) And we know the weather was
fine in Crawford, even though there were severe thunderstorms not far
away in the Temple area (which is where most of the guests are
staying.) The ceremony was performed in front of a limestone altar
with a attached three-ton cross which Bush
II designed himself. No word on whether he
and Lord Chamberlain Cheney will be using it for any ceremonials of a
somewhat more esoteric nature at some point in the future. The
reception was held under tents set up for the occasion.
Jenna's wedding date came at a time when Emperor Bush's subjects are short of bread (in every sense of the word "bread") and she has refused to put on a circus (although the security precautions— and the wedding itself— will be highly expensive.) It will in fact be a wedding of the sort which Liberal Democrats tend to favor: strenuously casual, held at an gratuitously inconvenient venue (the President's ranch is in a remote area of South Central Texas and the Princess in fact actually grew up in Austin), and it will be linked to irrelevant causes (in this case, wildflowers and literacy) which are supposed to be of special significance to the couple.
The literacy may seem ironic because the Emperor is a man of limited book learnin'— but the Princess and the Empress are both elementary reading teachers.
The wildflowers are the theme of the wedding. Apparently, Empress Laura has been keeping herself busy all these years by planting wildflowers on the ranch in Crawford. The dresses for the "house party" (i..e., what folks in the other 49 states would refer to as the "bridesmaids") are also wildflower-colored. (In Texas, the "bridesmaid" is what non-Texans would refer to by the term "maid of honor." Jenna's bridesmaid will be the other twin, Barbara.) The designer Lela Rose released the following sketch of some of the house party dresses:
Jenna's wedding gown is known to be by Oscar de la Renta, but it is being safeguarded by Lord Chamberlain Cheney in an undisclosed location.
The wedding will supposedly take place off camera, and will be a relatively casual outdoor affair, held in the early evening to protect the 200 or so guests from the Texas sun (which gets hot even though the Emperor does not believe in Global Warming.) At least one photo will be officially released, and I will doubtless post it (or them) here somewhere. The ranch is seven miles from the tiny town of Crawford, and few if any guests will in fact see the town itself.
The rehearsal dinner actually and other pre-wedding day celebrations actually took place over 50 miles away in the pre-Civil War town of Salado,Texas at the Stagecoach Inn:
May 10 Associated Press story, beginning "So close and yet so far: Tiny Crawford is sort of like a bridesmaid at arm's length from Jenna Bush's wedding Saturday."
The Princess is ostensibly a deeply private person: however, she
has been crisscrossing the country for the past year promoting her
own book Ana's
Story: A Journey of Hope
After the wedding Jenna & Henry will be moving to a row house which Henry bought for $440,000 on the south side of Baltimore, not far from the Baltimore Ravens' stadium which is currently known as " M&T Bank Stadium ". The house's assessed value is $296,780. The exact address is 1345 South Charles Street; Baltimore MD 21230.
Here are a few pictures which have surfaced from the preparations for the wedding:
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Although the liberal media like to paint young Republicans as stodgy and unfashionable. Henry and Jenna are way more hip than that boring old Chelsea Clinton— as proven by these next two pictures.
Here is Sir Henry in Boston with his ex-boss Lord Rove and other friends. The red Speedos represent the fact that the Republicans aren't counting any state as being "Blue"— not even the Bluest of all states, Massachusetts.
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And here is Jenna with her close friend John Waters, the film-maker and author who is now her neighbor in Baltimore:
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[May 8, 2008] I have created a separate page (this page, duh!)
about Jenna Bush's wedding to Henry Chase Hager, on May 10, 2008,
even though I am not entirely why I should bother. The first week of
May I got a lot of hits, thanks to the wedding and to the hype for
the book Read
All About It! I got over 2,500 hits that week with no— "no"
as in zero, nada, bupkus, rien, not even one, not any, ningún,
zilch— Adsense clickthroughs, and only a handful of clickthroughs
to the various other pages on my web site, although a few folks did
click on links to news stories, etc.
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