Bidens Will Host a White House Wedding Reception for Their Granddaughter

WASHINGTON — President Biden and Jill Biden, the primary woman, plan to host a marriage reception this fall on the White Home for his or her eldest granddaughter, Naomi Biden, who is ready to marry her longtime boyfriend.

The couple, who met after they have been arrange by buddies 4 years in the past in New York Metropolis and who now stay in Washington, are within the preliminary planning phases and haven’t introduced a location for his or her marriage ceremony ceremony.

However the announcement of the reception arrange the primary marriage ceremony celebration of a presidential member of the family on the White Home in additional than a decade. On Monday afternoon, Ms. Biden, 28, wrote on Twitter that she and her fiancé, Peter Neal, 24, have been “endlessly grateful to my Nana and Pop for the chance to have fun our marriage ceremony on the White Home.”

Elizabeth Alexander, the communications director for Dr. Biden, stated in an electronic mail that the reception could be held on Nov. 19. However even the friends, it appears, must watch for extra particulars: The couple has not despatched out save the dates but.

“The primary household, the couple and their dad and mom are nonetheless within the planning phases of all the marriage ceremony festivities and look ahead to asserting additional particulars within the coming months,” Ms. Alexander wrote in an electronic mail.

Ms. Biden is the daughter of Hunter Biden and Kathleen Buhle, who divorced in 2017, and is a lawyer in Washington, her hometown. Mr. Neal is from Jackson Gap, Wyo., and is the son of Drs. Mary C. Neal and William C. Neal of Jackson Gap. He’s in his remaining semester of legislation faculty on the College of Pennsylvania. Mr. Neal proposed in Jackson Gap on Sept. 4, 2021.

White Home weddings — and receptions — held amongst presidential relations have been comparatively uncommon.

The final reception was held in June 2008 to have fun the marriage of Jenna Bush to Henry Hager after the 2 married a month earlier on President George W. Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas.

The final marriage ceremony ceremony of a presidential member of the family was in June 1971, when Tricia Nixon, the daughter of President Richard M. Nixon and Pat Nixon, married Edward Finch Cox within the Rose Backyard.

Altogether, 9 youngsters of American presidents and one president himself, Grover Cleveland in 1886, have wed on the White Home.

The primary marriage ceremony ceremony on file was in March 1812, when Lucy Payne Washington, the sister of Dolley Madison, the primary woman, married Thomas Todd, a Supreme Court docket justice.