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First Lady: Friday’s Storm Nearly Wrecked Saturday’s Wedding
The powerful storm Friday that pummeled parts of Central Texas including the president’s ranch near Crawford threatened to disrupt plans for Saturday’s wedding of first daughter Jenna Bush and Henry Hager.
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(White House photo by Shealah Craighead)
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(May 12, 2008)--First Lady Laura Bush said Monday the storms that spawned violent tornadoes over the weekend slammed into President Bush's Central Texas ranch and threatened to disrupt wedding plans for Jenna Bush and Henry Hager.
She says that while family members and the wedding party were in Salado at the rehearsal dinner, all the catering ovens were turned over and the sides were ripped off the tent erected for the reception after the wedding ceremony.
But she says that by Saturday night, you couldn't even tell there had been any damage.
About 200 invited guests attended the private outdoor wedding ceremony.
Mrs. Bush said Monday the ranch was beautiful and the wildflowers were blooming.
Meanwhile Monday, more details emerged about the Friday night events in Salado, which were planned under a cloak of secrecy so impenetrable that not even the owners of the businesses where the rehearsal dinner and party were held knew who the guests actually were until they arrived.
Arrangements were made under names other than Bush and Hager.
More than 40 students from Belton High School’s march band agreed to play at a mystery event Friday.
They didn’t find out until they’d turned over their cell phones and were about to board a bus that the mystery event was the rehearsal dinner.
The bride-to-be asked Belton High School Principal Kathy Cook through a mutual friend if the band would surprise her fiancé by playing “Happy Birthday.”
Friday was Hager’s 30th birthday.
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I agree with you "ME", I was all for Bush until he tried to get that illegal Mexican out of prison for raping and murdering those two 15 year old girls! The wedding is over good luck, move on. There are more important stories that need commenting on. I'm through with this!
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Thank you Fred for reminding some of these morons that President Bush "IS" still our president! I posted before that Jenna had the country wedding like the Texas girl she is and she was a beautiful bride! And the Belton Marching Band will have something exciting to remember for the rest of their lives. I hope if the ugly fools on here ever have a daughter marry, they just go to the JP!
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To the person who calls themself "Me": The rights afforded by the First Ammendment of the US Constitution only extend so far. Do you recall ever learning that it is a federal crime to make death threats against the President of the United States of America? I am not saying that your comment is this type of threat, but I would venture to say that somebody who is responsible for the security of the President, yes the Secret Service, just might have already taken notice of your comment and is quite possibly keeping a watchful eye on you. And I for one, think they should. Free Speech -- Yes and I will defend your right to it everyday, but only within the confines of the law.
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