WACO, Texas — If there is anything official Washington likes better than an election, it’s a White House wedding.

Although the nuptials of first daughter Jenna Bush, 26, and 29-year-old Henry Hager, of Virginia, took place May 10 at her father’s Prairie Chapel Ranch, near Crawford, Texas, the event still carries some D.C. star power.

The Western White House is just one of several venues to host a marriage ceremony for a presidential relative over the nation’s 231 years.

Think you know all there is to know about White House weddings? Test your knowledge with this quiz:

1. Which president’s child was the first to wed in the Executive Mansion?

A. Thomas Jefferson

B. James Madison

C. James Monroe

D. Millard Fillmore

2. Who was the first son of a president to tie the knot at the White House?

A. John Adams II

B. Andrew Jackson Jr.

C. Abraham Van Buren

D. Frederick Grant

3. How long was it until the next White House wedding took place?

A. 13 years

B. 24 years

C. 33 years

D. 41 years

4. The first president to marry while in office was:

A. William Henry Harrison

B. John Tyler

C. James K. Polk

D. Martin Van Buren

5. Which White House bride abandoned her American citizenship shortly after her marriage?

A. Polly Jefferson

B. Ellen Wrenshall “Nellie” Grant

C. Sarah Knox Taylor

D. Abigail Fillmore

6. Who was the only president to marry in the White House?

A. Rutherford B. Hayes

B. Chester Alan Arthur

C. Grover Cleveland

D. Benjamin Harrison

7. This White House bride once said of her presidential parent: “My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.”

A. Esther Cleveland

B. Alice Lee Roosevelt

C. Margaret Wilson

D. Margaret Truman 8. Which first daughter received wedding gifts that included “a pear-shaped diamond pendant weighing more than six carats” as well as a sack of potatoes, Bermuda onions and a washtub with six boxes of soap?

A. Alice Lee Roosevelt

B. Helen Taft

C. Margaret Truman

D. Jessie Wilson

9. How long was it until the next White House wedding?

A. 5 months

B. 21 years

C. 43 years

D. 52 years

10. Which bride had her reception at the White House, but not her wedding ceremony?

A. Anna Roosevelt

B. Luci Baines Johnson

C. Lynda Bird Johnson

D. Julie Nixon

11. Which presidential daughter once dated — but didn’t marry — actor George Hamilton?

A. Luci Baines Johnson

B. Lynda Bird Johnson

C. Julie Nixon

D. Susan Ford

12. One daughter of this president married the grandson of another chief executive:

A. Lyndon B. Johnson

B. Richard M. Nixon

C. Gerald R. Ford

D. Jimmy Carter

13. The daughter of this president was the most recent child to have a White House wedding:

A. Lyndon B. Johnson

B. Gerald R. Ford

C. Richard M. Nixon

D. Jimmy Carter

14. President George H. Bush’s daughter got married while her father was in office. Where did the wedding take place?

A. The East Room

B. Kennebunkport, Maine

C. Camp David

D. The Blue Room

Sources: “All the President’s Children” by Doug Wead; FirstLadies.org; Womens History.about.com; WhiteHouse.gov; Library of Congress; American-Presidents.com.

Answers

1. C. James Monroe’s daughter, Maria Hester Monroe, wed Samuel L. Gouverneur on March 9, 1820, in the first White House wedding.

2. A. The second White House wedding took place between John Adams II — grandson of former President John Adams and son of President John Quincy Adams — and his first cousin, Mary Catherine Hellen, on Feb. 25, 1828, in the Elliptical Drawing Room.

3. A. On Jan. 31, 1842, Elizabeth “Lizzie” Tyler, 18, daughter of President John Tyler, married young attorney William N. Waller, an old neighbor from Williamsburg, Va.

4. B. Tyler married his second wife, Julia Gardiner, in 1844 in New York City.

5. B. On May 21, 1874, President Ulysses S. Grant’s only daughter, Ellen Wrenshall “Nellie” Grant, 18, wed a 22-year-old Englishman named Algernon Sartoris in the East Room.

6. C. President Grover Cleveland, 49, married his former ward, 21-year-old Frances Folsom, in a private White House ceremony in the Blue Room on June 2, 1886.

7. B. Twenty-two-year-old Alice Lee Roosevelt, the daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, wed Ohio Congressman Nicholas Longworth, 35, on Feb. 17, 1906, in an East Room ceremony. Alice Roosevelt chose not to share the spotlight with anyone else — no bridesmaids were in attendance.

8. D. On Nov. 25, 1913, President Woodrow Wilson’s second daughter, Jessie Woodrow Wilson, 26, wed Francis Bowes Sayre, 28, in the East Room.

9. A. Eleanor Randolph Wilson, 23, wed a 50-year-old widower and father of six, Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo, in a five-minute Blue Room ceremony before 100 guests on May 7, 1914.

10. B. Luci Baines Johnson married Patrick Nugent, 23, at the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on Aug. 6, 1966.

11. B. Lynda Bird Johnson, who married Marine Capt. Charles Spittal Robb in the East Room of the White House on Dec. 9, 1967.

12. B. Julie Nixon married David Eisenhower, grandson of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, on Dec. 22, 1968, in New York City, a month before her father was sworn into office.

13. C. Tricia Nixon married Harvard law student Edward Finch Cox in a Rose Garden ceremony on June 12, 1971.

14. C. Dorothy Bush wed her second husband, Democratic lobbyist Robert P. Koch, in a private ceremony at Camp David on June 26, 1992 — the only couple to be married at the presidential retreat.