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17 de nov. de 2022 · Tricia Nixon and Edward Finch Cox after they exchanged wedding vows in a White House rose garden ceremony. Kidder also designed dresses for the bridesmaids and the mother of the bride. On...
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The nearly seven-foot wedding cake of newly married Edward and Tricia Cox. National Archives and Records Administration, White House Photo Office collection, WHPO-6594-12. The Ceremony and Reception. Official wedding invitation for the wedding of Tricia Nixon to Edward Cox.
12 de jun. de 2021 · Fifty years after her stunning and well-remembered White House Rose Garden wedding, I spoke exclusively with former first daughter Patricia Nixon Cox to reminisce about that magical day. By Jennifer Boswell Pickens. It’s not surprising that Tricia Nixon Cox still has vivid memories of such a historic and memorable day 50 years ago ...
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Tricia Nixon, 25, and Edward Cox, 24, originally met at a high school dance in 1963, according to the Nixon Foundation; he escorted her to the International Debutante Ball the following year. They dated through college, and in 1970, Cox asked her father for her hand in marriage. But not before she'd had at least one other date, with future U.S. pre...
As the first White House bride to have her ceremony in the Rose Garden, Tricia Nixon was gambling a bit with the weather. "There was a lot of back-and-forth about whether they'd move it inside, but they had a plan for rain," said Pickens. "They kept bringing the chairs in and taking them out." But a brief window of time opened up where it promised ...
Priscilla Kidder, founder of Priscilla of Boston, had gained fame by helping dress Grace Kelly's bridesmaids in 1956, along with designing the wedding gown of Luci Baines Johnson (daughter of President Lyndon Johnson). She was a natural to dress Tricia Nixon, and found a way to be both elegant — the dress was white silk organdy appliquéd with Alenc...
As President Nixon recalled in "The Memoirs of Richard Nixon," the bride emerged from her room between 3 and 4 p.m. that day in her wedding gown and veil, and met up with her mother and sister in the West Hall. Military officers who served as social aides in the White House were holding the 400 guests indoors in case of rain, but a weather report i...
With six tiers, the lemon pound cake was, according to the Chicago Tribune, 350 pounds and big enough (by design) to serve to the press as well as the guests. It was created by White House chef Henry Haller, White House pastry chef Heinz Bender and pastry specialist Maurice Bonté. The ingredients were reasonably simple: sugar, butter, cake flour, l...
Though the ceremony wasn't broadcast live, network specials that were airing later in the day invited the world into the ceremony. According to Pickens, hundreds of journalists were credentialed to cover the wedding and the TV shows attracted 110 million viewers (those numbers include a preview show the night before the wedding). Of course, not all...
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25 de jun. de 1971 · Designer Priscilla Kidder of Priscilla of Boston holds a piece of white silk satin with an inscription in blue thread reading, “Gown by Priscilla of Boston for the White House Wedding of Tricia Nixon to Edward Finch Cox, June 12, 1971.” This piece was sewn into Tricia’s dress as her “something blue.”
Marriage and professional activities. Tricia Nixon, escorted by her father down the aisle at her wedding to Edward Cox in 1971. Tricia Nixon married Harvard Law student Edward F. Cox in a White House Rose Garden ceremony on June 12, 1971. [5]
Tricia Nixon’s Wedding Dress. Tricia Nixon’s wedding ensemble is held in the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California.
