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Laura Bush Dishes Wedding Details

May 12, 2008 2:46 PM

ABC's Ann Compton reports: At an East Room luncheon for Senate spouses, Laura Bush conceded she scheduled the annual gathering for the Monday after daughter Jenna's wedding, knowing many of the Senate wives would like to hear some of the inside stories of the ceremony which did not include official Washington guests. 

Mrs. Bush did share a bit of previously unreported news about an 11th hour emergency -- although local weather forecasts in Texas did not confirm, the Crawford area may have been struck by a tornado hours before the wedding.

"We are tired. But it was really terrific," Mrs. Bush told the Senate wives Monday. "I thought you all -- one of the reasons I thought it would be fun to have this lunch right after the wedding is for me to be able to tell you a few things about the wedding.

"It was just perfect. It was exactly the way Jenna wanted it. She was absolutely beautiful. If you've seen any of the pictures, you can tell how pretty she was. And the ranch was absolutely beautiful. We had wildflowers blooming. They weren't quite at the peak, but there were lots of flowers blooming everywhere, and it was so green and pretty. "

"And we did have a little -- one setback on Friday night. While we were off in another town at the rehearsal dinner there was a tornado. So we had all the -- all the catering ovens were turned over and the sides were ripped off the tent. But everyone worked wildly and you couldn't even tell the next night. It was just perfect, everything was great.

"We had -- I know you all have heard that the President had this beautiful limestone cross built on this peninsula in our lake, and that's where they got married, in front of this limestone cross that is the same limestone that our house is built from. So that was very perfect. And just as they said their vows, the sun dropped and the moon came up. So it was really, really lovely, and the way we wanted it to be," Mrs. Bush continued.

"You know that Henry asked Jenna to marry him at the very first place you can see the sun -- sunrise in the United States, at the top of Cadillac Mountain in Maine, and got her up real early to hike up to the top of this mountain. She said she was very grumpily hiking up, and her legs were cold, everything. And then they were there for sunrise. So that was great that they were -- got to get married at moonrise."

"So we had a really wonderful time. It was a great weekend of family and friends. It was all of George's brothers and sister and their family, Barbara and Jenna's cousins that they're both very close to, and my mother -- and then, mainly, friends of the couple, which made it really fun. So there was a lot of wild dancing until 3:00 a.m."

Mrs. Bush added to the laughing audience:

"But I can assure you none of us, of the older people, made it that long."

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