Breaking News: Jenna Bush sets a wedding date

President Bush's daughter Jenna and her fiance, Henry Hager, have set May 10 as their wedding date, according to a report late tonight on the People magazine website.

Despite speculation about a grand White House wedding, fueled in part by her mother saying it would be "a lot of fun," the couple will be married on her parents' 1,600-acre ranch near Crawford, Texas, People reported. That will ensure the kind of privacy for the wedding and reception that both Jenna and her twin sister, Barbara, have craved during much of their parents' and grandparents' public political lives.

"It's going to be a small wedding," an unnamed source told the magazine. She's already selected her bridesmaids. A White House official would not confirm the People report.

The 26-year-old Bush and 29-year-old Hager became engaged Aug. 15 when he proposed on a Maine mountaintop at sunrise, after a month of secret planning among family members and Hager's formally asking the president and Laura Bush for permission.

A former Commerce Department staffer and aide to political strategist Karl Rove, Hager is in his final year in the MBA program at the University of Virginia.

Bush, like her mother, is an elementary school teacher and has returned to her Washington classroom after a leave of absence to serve as a UNICEF intern. Her experiences in Latin America led to a book, "Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope," published last September. She is working on another book with her mother to encourage youths to read.

-- Andrew Malcolm

Comments

[D. Lane]

This is so refreshing. I just knew Jenna would not opt for a lavish WH wedding - she's a REAL person....as opposed to Chelsea Clinton, who is probably already planning an extravagant WH wedding (if she ever finds anyone willing to marry her, that is).

George and Laura did a great job with their kids...something to be proud of!

[Stubenville]

So it's kind of like being in Paris and choosing to go to McDonalds instead of Taillevent. Just more proof of what lowbrow yahoos the entire Bush clan really are.

[yvette]

D. Lane why did you have to go there?? How can you say George and Laura did a great job with their kids??? Remember when they were in the bar drinking under age?? Forgot that one did ya!! Remember when Jenna poked her tonge at photographers while riding in the Presidentail limo. So please don't pass judgement, everyone has skeletons in their closets, including you!! But you are probably a Republican, always passing judgement and thinking you are better than anyone else.

[Maus]

That's my wedding date too!!!

(And how's that worked out for you?)

[KA]

Best wishes and Good For Jenna. The Bush's may as well plan a lavish wedding, he sure as hell has not done anything with the economy or the country...it is all downhill now, so have fun George, while the rest of us pay for this hiking gas!

[Dickie Doo]

The drinking age in this country are garbage. I drank when I was underage and, if you were lucky, you may have been with me, Yvette, dancing, singing and having a few laughs. Lighten up, sweetheart.

Best wishes to Jenna and hubbie. She's a great girl from a great family. I have 3 daughters who, I hope, have as much decency and joie de vivre as Jen.

[CS7401]

You guys are such haters. Must be nice being miserable all the time...complaining about George Bush all the time. Blaming him for *everything* under the sun. But that is your life. Being miserable and unhappy is like cancer. Eventually it will destroy you. So, get a grip! I'm happy for Jenna! Good for her! :)

[Judy]

Happy that a small wedding is being planned. In this time of war and sinking economy, and with all that the President has done to put our country on the downslide it would be unconscienable for them to put on a lavish and costly event.

[KF]

Any relation to President Bush will get negative comments. Good luck to her and her husband; he certainly has a road filled with potential problems unless his life can approach that of the Bush family in some small way.

She does seem like a good person with some spunk and cute too. Drinking to the level that she is reported to have indulged, under a microscope every moment in college and at a time when her father was being called routinely "Hitler" etc. ... well that only shows that actually she has very little in her personal history that could be written about.

Both parties exploit the children of Presidents in crude ways that reflect what politics is actually about and it is not morals! It is about power and force and a sublimated aggression towards the opposite pole politically. In essence, socialism is a bloody angry personal vedette, liberty is a forgiving creative life force; although the Bush's can not claim fully the latter, at least they are informed by it.