15 Ageless And Romantic Photographs of US Presidents on Their Wedding Day

Not very many people have seen wedding photographs of Presidents simply because they only enter the public spotlight when entering office. For our earliest Presidents of course that wasn’t all the case simply because they were leaders from the very start like George Washington who was the Father of the nation. As an article portraying the wedding photographs of US Presidents, it would be highly interesting to see our nation’s leaders on their special day. While most of the US presidents were married once, quite a few of them married twice or thrice. Such photographs also give you some insight on weddings of those times.

1George and Martha Washington

George Washington served as the first president of the USA from 1798 to 1797. Although letters suggest that he was in love with Sally Fairfax, he married Martha Dandridge Custis who was a wealthy widow. Both George and Martha made a good couple as Martha was both gracious and an intelligent administrator who managed a planter’s estate. The couple never had any children of their own but raised Martha’s three children from her first marriage. The painting of their wedding was done by Junius Brutus Stears in 1849 who cleverly recreated the wedding scene of 6th January 1759. 

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2Rutherford and Lucy Hayes

President Rutherford was requested by his mother to court his wife Lucy Hayes years earlier than their marriage but he refused thinking her to be too young. He instead courted other women. After four years he gave in to his mother and began seeing Lucy. After an engagement in 1851, they were married on 30th December 1852. 

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3Grover Cleveland and Frances Folsom

Grover Cleveland was a bachelor when he became President. His sister Rose acted as a hostess for his guests. Cleveland fell in love with Frances Folsom, the daughter of his friend while she was studying in Wells College. With permission from her mother, Cleveland began writing her and they were finally married on June 2nd, 1886. The wedding took place in the Blue room of the White House. Incidentally at 21, Frances Folsom Cleveland was the youngest first lady in history and known to be the most beautiful. This is an artwork of the wedding. 

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4 Herbert Hoover and Lou Henry

Herbert Hoover was pursuing an engineering career in Australia when he cabled a marriage proposal to Lou Henry who had just graduated from Stanford. Herbert Hoover and Lou Henry were married on February 10, 1899 in Monterey California. They were both 24 years old. Although Lou was a Quaker; the couple was married in a civil ceremony by a Roman Catholic priest, Father Ramon Mestress from the Cathedral of San Carlos Borromeo. 

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5Dwight Eisenhower and Mamie Doud

The 34th president of the United States, Eisenhower graduated from West Point in 1915. When he was stationed in Texas, he met his future wife Mamie Doud. He proposed to her on Valentine’s Day which she happily accepted. They were married in the home of Mamie’s parents in Denver Colorado on July 1st 2016 just before the USA entered World War I.

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