For a vice president’s daughter, Sarah Gore had a low-key wedding on Sunday in Carpinteria, Calif. But second weddings tend to be more modest affairs, and Sarah, 35, like her parents and her big sisters Kristin and Karenna, is a veteran of a failed marriage. She married Santa Barbara real-estate agent Patrick Maiani this weekend under a pine near a coffee shop, having previously wed tech investor Bill Lee, in 2007.
Here are some other daughters of presidents and vice presidents who had splashy weddings.
2012: Ashley Biden
Ashley, 30, a social worker and daughter of veep Joe Biden, married 45-year-old Philadelphia plastic surgeon Dr. Howard Krein in St. Joseph on the Brandywine Church in Greenville, Del., the same church where she was baptized.
2008: Jenna Bush
Jenna, 26, wed Henry Hager, a 30-year-old former Karl Rove intern-turned-energy executive, at the ranch of her dad, President George W. Bush, in Crawford, Texas.
1997: Karenna Gore and Andrew Schiff
Clad in Vera Wang, the veep’s oldest daughter, then 23, married New York physician Andrew Schiff at Washington National Cathedral. Aretha Franklin sang at the reception and Life magazine came along to photograph the bride. She and Schiff split in 2010.
1992: Dorothy Bush
The second wedding for President George H.W. Bush’s daughter “Doro,” 32, took place at Camp David, the only time a president’s daughter chose that option for her nuptials. She married a Democrat, Robert P. “Bobby” Koch, 31, a lobbyist for the Wine Institute and former aide to House Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt.
1971: Tricia Nixon
Perhaps the splashiest presidential daughter’s wedding was 25-year-old Patricia’s marriage to Harvard Law student Edward Cox (later a Manhattan lawyer and chairman of the New York Republican State Committee) in the only such ceremony to take place in the White House Rose Garden.
1968: Julie Nixon
Shortly after her father was elected president, the 20-year-old married into another political family when she wed David Eisenhower, Dwight Eisenhower’s grandson, who was then a student at Amherst College, in a 15-minute ceremony at the Marble Collegiate Church in Manhattan, where future “Love Boat” star and Rep. Fred Grandy served as best man. Both Julie and David, who became a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, would go on to write books. He was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1987 for a book about his grandfather at war.
1967: Lynda Bird Johnson
At 23, Lynda married dashing Marine Corps officer Chuck Robb — later governor of Virginia and a scandal-plagued senator from that state — in the East Room of the White House. Now 70, she is the oldest living child of a US president.
1966: Luci Baines Johnson
Just 19, Luci married Air National Guardsman Patrick J. Nugent before 700 guests and 55 million television viewers at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. The couple later had four children, but split in 1979 and had their marriage annulled.
1914: Eleanor “Nellie” Wilson
At 24, Eleanor married her father Woodrow’s 50-year-old Treasury secretary, William McAdoo, at the White House. She divorced McAdoo in 1934 and would go on to write a biography of her father.
1913: Jessie Wilson
The 26-year-old daughter of Woodrow Wilson married Francis Sayre, a lawyer who would work as the assistant to the president of Williams College, also at the White House. She would die at age 45 after abdominal surgery.
1906: Alice Roosevelt
Teddy’s 22-year-old wild child would later become famed for the saying, “If you haven’t got anything good to say about anybody, come sit next to me.” She married Republican Congressman and future House Speaker Nicholas Longworth at the White House before 1,000 guests while wearing her signature blue, which was so associated with the young fashion icon that it was dubbed “Alice blue.”