Chelsea's Big Day: A Brief History of White House Weddings

Brief History of White House Weddings
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FDR Jr., 1937
The family's golden boy, Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. married Ethel DuPont, the first of his five wives, in 1937 in Delaware. The news of the couple's engagement sparked controversy, as DuPont was an heiress to one of the nation's prominent Republican families. The ceremony was hailed as the "wedding of the decade."

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