This is a list of weddings that have taken place at the White House, the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States of America. White House weddings Nineteen couples have had documented weddings in the White House. Nine have been children of presidents, three have been a niece or nephew of the president or first lady, two siblings, two staffers, one granddaughter, one friend and one president. Of the twelve children of incumbent presidents who married during their parent's presidency in locations other than the White House, two had receptions in the executive mansion. Public weddings in the White House, particularly those of the president's children, "have been feel-good occasions for the country and the commander in chief, casting presidents in the sympathetic role of father." President-elect Richard Nixon encouraged his daughter, Julie, and her fiancé, David Eisenhower, grandson of Dwight D. Eisenhower, to postpone their December 1968 wedding at New York's Marble Collegiate Church and instead have it after his inauguration at the White House, but the couple did not wish for the publicity of a White House wedding. Her older sister, Tricia, is the most recent White House bride to be a child of the president. These events are occasionally referred to in the press as "America's 'royal' weddings." List of weddings at the White House 19th century March 29, 1812: Lucy Payne Washington (sister of First Lady Dolley Madison) married Supreme Court Justice Thomas Todd. The first wedding at the White House. March 9, 1820: Maria Hester Monroe (daughter of President James Monroe) married her first cousin, Samuel L. Gouverneur. The first wedding of a child of a president in the White House. February 25, 1828: John Adams II (son of President John Quincy Adams) married his first cousin, Mary Catherine Hellen, in the Blue Room. April 10, 1832: Mary A. Eastin (niece of Rachel Jackson, late wife of President Andrew Jackson) married Lucius J. Polk in the East Room. November 29, 1832: Mary Anne Lewis (daughter of a close friend of President Andrew Jackson) married Alphonse Pageot in the East Room. The first wedding in the White House of an individual not related to the first family. January 31, 1842: Elizabeth Tyler (daughter of President John Tyler) married William Waller in the East Room. May 21, 1874: Nellie Grant (daughter of President Ulysses S. Grant) married Algernon Sartoris in the East Room.