President George W. Bush and family get ready for daughter Jenna's wedding
in Texas.

NBC -

 President George W. Bush has been trying to cajole North Korea to
give up its nuclear weapons and tamp down violence in Iraq and Afghanistan,
but another topic is also on the mind of the leader -wedding bells.
       Eschewing the glamour and media glare of a White House wedding,
daughter Jenna Bush will marry the son of a Virginia politician, Henry Hager,
at a private ceremony with family and friends at the president's Texas ranch
on Saturday evening (May 10).
    The two were engaged last August during a hike in the mountains of
Maine.
    The last White House wedding was in 1971 when President Richard Nixon's
daughter, Tricia, was married in the Rose Garden to Edward Cox.
     Bush has sprinkled references to his twin daughter Jenna's wedding in
most public appearances for the last few months.
    At the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner in
Washington, Bush joked about a recent television campaign ad for presidential
hopeful Hillary Clinton.  He said, "Please excuse me if I am a little
sleepy, at 3 a.m. this morning, the red phone rang. It was the damn wedding
planner."
Gift shops in Washington D.C. and in Crawford, Texas have been stocking up
on wedding memorabilia
    There were mousepads and coffee mugs with Texas maps with theirs
wedding date engraved on them.
    Bush had an altar built of limestone at his 1,600 acre (647 hectares)
ranch for the ceremony, which will be held just before sundown when the
notorious Texas heat subsides.
    The bride and her parents have repeatedly denied being nervous about
the big day, instead expressing excitement.
    The bride will wear an Oscar de la Renta gown with her twin Barbara as
the sole bridesmaid, according to Vogue magazine.
    The White House has tried to keep the media focus away from the twins.
Jenna developed a reputation as a party girl during her college days when she
was arrested for underage drinking.
    Jenna has no great affinity for the press and was once captured in
photo sticking her tongue out at reporters from a presidential limousine. Even
so, she has given several recent interviews to promote a children's book about
reading that she wrote with her mother Laura Bush.
    Hager previously worked as a White House aide and on Bush's
presidential campaign. He is the son of former Virginia Lieutenant Gov. John
Hager who is now the chairman of the Virginia Republican Party.
    The groom is expected to receive his masters degree in business from
the University of Virginia next week, according to media reports.
    The couple plans to live in Baltimore, Maryland where Jenna Bush will
teach and her husband will work for Constellation Energy, the reports said.

    The two were engaged last August during a hike in the mountains of
Maine.