Naomi BidenandPeter Nealtied the knot Saturday morning in a long-anticipated White House wedding, the first in nearly a decade — and the first-ever for a grandchild of a sitting president.
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Naomi, 28, is a graduate of Columbia Law and the eldest daughter of the president’s sonHunter Bidenand Hunter’s ex-wife,Kathleen Buhle.
Neal, 25, who also studied law, interned forHillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and at the White House duringBarack Obama’s presidency.
According to two sources, Naomi and Neal currently live on the third floor of the White House residence — one flight up from the First Family’s main living quarters — and the same placeMichelle Obama’s mother,Marian Robinson, called home for the eight years of her son-in-law’s administration.
The pairannounced their engagementin September 2021, and confirmed earlier this year that they had chosen the White House as their venue. Their nuptials marked the first wedding on the White House grounds since 2013, when presidential photographerPete Souzamarried Patti Lease in the Rose Garden.
Naomi has two sisters, Finnegan and Maisy, as well as two young half-siblings, including a boy born in March 2020named Beau, after her uncle,Beau Biden, who died of brain cancer in 2015 at 46.
President Biden, who turns 80 on Sunday, has talked at length about the close bond he and each of his grandchildren share. Just before Biden was inaugurated, Naomi, who also lives in Washington, D.C., toldToday’sJenna Bush Hagerthat she was excited to know her “Pop” would live only a few miles away.
In a pastinterview withPBS Newshour, Naomi explained that her grandfather is at the center of the close-knit Biden clan.
“We’ve grown up together,” she said. “He’s made sure that every single tradition, every holiday, we’re all together . . . I don’t think there’s been any decision, no matter how big or small, that we haven’t decided as a family.”
source: people.com
