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

Brief History of White House Weddings
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Amy Carter, 1996
Amy met her husband while she was an employee at an Atlanta bookstore where he was the manager. Her wedding, outside of Plains, Ga., was as stubbornly low-key as she was. Amy refused to let her father Jimmy Carter give her away and baked her own cake for the reception, and the couple drove off in a car with a pro-choice bumper sticker.

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