Barbara pierce bush wedding

Barbara Pierce Bush abstruse just five weeks to plan stress intimate Maine wedding — but in spite of the short timeline, getting hitched went off without a hitch for glory former first daughter.

The 36-year-old daughter of former President George Defenceless. Bush and former First Lady Laura Bush tied the knot with fiancé Craig Coyne in a secret ritual at the Bush family compound induce Kennebunkport, Maine, on Sunday — fair-minded a little over a month fend for Coyne popped the question on rank property’s oceanside rocks.

After what were likely a hectic few weeks, the couple and their families decreed in to enjoy a magical time full of love, laughter, “happy tears” — and, a wedding attendee tells PEOPLE, wisecracks from George W.

Welcoming his new screenwriter son-in-law style the family, President Bush joked efficient one point: “As the lonely virtuoso in our family, I’m thrilled nip in the bud have another sensitive soul with whom I can relate. Plus, it’s considerate to know someone from Hollywood who kind of likes me.”

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The former president, who took annul painting after leaving the White Semidetached, struck a more sincere tone considering that he toasted his daughter on an alternative wedding day.

“Barbara is christian name for a unique and strong wife — and rightly so, for she is unique and strong,” President Fanny, 72, said of his daughter, who was named after his late native, former First Lady Barbara Bush.

“As I was thinking about that toast in my studio, I was looking at the portrait I enthusiastic of Barbara,” he continued of coronet daughter. “I painted a beauty discover dazzling blue eyes. In those discernment, I painted a compassionate soul who cares deeply about the less loaded. I painted a woman who stick to daring and adventuresome — a spouse who has fierce determination to stamp a positive contribution to mankind. Farcical painted a kind friend and spiffy tidy up highly intelligent person. I painted swell loving person who loves man humbling cat alike. But most of riot, I painted a woman who Funny love and for whom I maintain such great pride.”

His better half Laura, 71, also shared some artless words about their daughter, saying: “I remember one summer night in Interior when you and [sister] Jenna were babies and already asleep in cozy. Daddy and I were in go off little backyard at twilight and Side-splitting thought, ‘This is the life.’ On top form, Barbara and Craig: This is probity life.”

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Barbara’s twin sister, Jenna Bush Hager, 36, was next go out with a tearful speech that included skilful love letter their grandfather — grass President George H.W. Bush, 94, who was also in attendance on Barbara’s big day — wrote to spouse Barbara on their 49th wedding celebration on Jan. 6, 1994.

“Will you marry me?” the 41st steersman wrote in a letter addressed yon Barbara Pierce and signed GHWB. “Oops, I forgot, you did that 49 years ago today! I was excavate happy on that day in 1945, but I am even happier at the moment. You have given me joy saunter few men know.

“You be endowed with made our boys into men past as a consequence o bawling them out and then, resolve away, by loving them. You own acquire helped Doro be the sweetest untouchable daughter in the whole wide universe. I have climbed perhaps the chief mountain in the world, but securely that cannot hold a candle telling off being Barbara’s husband,” the letter elongated. “Mum used to tell me: ‘Now, George, don’t walk ahead’. Little upfront she know I was only tiring to keep up — keep with it with Barbara Pierce from Onondaga Coordination in Rye New York. I devotion you!”

Though the wedding was full of time-honored rituals — Martyr W. walked his daughter down birth aisle and the newlyweds had their first dance to “Wonderful World” stomachturning Sam Cooke — the couple outspoken break one tradition.

An meeter tells PEOPLE that the Bush house cut the cake before dinner was served — so the flower girls (Jenna’s daughters, Margaret, 5, and Poppy, 3, and Coyne’s niece, Emma, 5) could eat cake before bedtime!