Bride hopes Jenna's day doesn't interfere with hers

Austin Pravda ^ | May 10, 2008 | Erin Quinn

[cweese]

Groom, many guests of one wedding will be on call for another - that of the president's daughter

Saturday, May 10, 2008

WEST — Nora Bartosh has been waiting for her wedding, scheduled for today, for the past six years. Now, the 34-year-old West drugstore clerk is worried that a president's daughter could steal her groom and thus her special day.

The groom, all eight groomsmen and about 150 of the guests work in McLennan County law enforcement. That leaves Bartosh hoping that everything goes smoothly in and around President Bush's Crawford-area ranch today as first daughter Jenna says her vows. If it doesn't, most of Bartosh's wedding party in the town about 18 miles north of Waco could be called out on business.

The groom has been "relaxed and calm about it," she said. "I'm the one freaking out. I am worried. I'm a lot worried."

And there's reason to do so.

"Whenever the Secret Service request our assistance, we are there," said Chief Deputy Randy Plemons of the McLennan County sheriff's department, who was invited to Bartosh's wedding. "So we always have enough staff on hand. Everybody's on call, of course."

But Bartosh isn't rescheduling. Let Jenna Bush do the rescheduling, she joked.

[KarinG1]

I like your nickname for the Statesman. It is quite appropriate.

[SnarlinCubBear]

The “press” are idjits. Idjits with a cause. Idjits with a cause to continually undermine a great president who has been trying to save their a$$es for the last 8 years. Idjits!

[RGSpincich]

I cannot believe that a girl would pass up the opportunity to get married in the White House.

Unless they have moved the White House out of DC lately, I can understand it perfectly. Jenna is under no grand illusion that happiness includes fairytale weddings in a town that has butchered her father.

[Inspectorette]

If Jenna Bush had her wedding at the White House the liberal scum media would be complaining that she was spending tax payers money on an ostentatious wedding.

You are absolutely right. Not to mention, every ragtag protest group would be out in full force in front of the White House, i.e., Code Pink, and all the other loonies. Jenna's day would be ruined.

[LottieDah]

Exactly. There is enough stress on a bride. Who needs to borrow trouble.

[GOYAKLA]

Also, what are all the “Comodeians” going to do after Bush retires to the farm? I do understand now why “The Chin, Leno “ leaving.

[LottieDah]

They are probably having this extravagant wedding courtesy of very pinko, Bush-hater in the area.

[murron]

I don’t think she appreciates the historic significance of getting married in the White House. It wouldn’t have had to be a super big wedding. She still could have kept it small. But there may have been security concerns as well. In this time of terrorism, her wedding would have been a prime target for some sort of terrorist act. With it being way out in Crawford, it’s easier to secure the area. But I, too, believe she’ll have regrets years from now.

But just think if the Hildebeast would be elected president. Then Chelsea could be a White House bride. I’ll bet that’s why she hasn’t gotten married yet, thinking that she would get that chance in the near future. Can you imagine how the MSM would have just fawned over her? I hope we never see THAT day arrive!

[Mercat]

It says here:
The average unmarried female
Basically insecure
Due to some long frustration may react
With psychosomatic symptoms
Difficult to endure
Affecting the upper resperatory tract.

In other words, just from waiting around for that plain little band of gold
A person can develop a cold.

You can spray her wherever you figure there’s streptococci lurk
You can give her a shot for whatever’s she’s got, but it just won’t work
If she’s tired of getting the fish eye from the hotel clerk
A person can develop a cold.

It says here:
The female remaining single
Just in the legal sense
Shows a neurotic tendancy, see note: (looks at note
Chronic organic symptoms
Toxic or hypertense
Involving the eye, the ear, the nose, and throat.

In other words, just from worrying if the wedding is on or off
A person can develop a cough.

You can feed her all day with the vitamin A and the bromofizz
But the medicine never gets anywhere near where the trouble is.
If she’s getting a kind of name for herself, and the name ain’t his
A person can develop a cough.

And furthur more, just from stalling, and stalling,
And stalling the wedding trip
A person can develop la grippe.

When they get on that train to Niagara
And she can hear church bells chime
The compartment is air conditioned
And the mood sublime
Then they get off at Saratoga for the fourteenth time!
A person can develop la grippe,
La grippe.
La post nasal drip.
With the wheezes
And the sneezes
And a sinus that’s really a pip!

From a lack of community property
And a feeling she’s getting to old
A person can develop a bad, bad cold!
(ADELAIDE sneezes)

[trimom]

Yeah, right. Who the heck schedules their wedding six YEARS in advance?

I agree! We told both of our kids that an engagement longer than a year is a delaying tactic. If you aren't headed down the aisle, there's no need to be engaged.

[television is just wrong]

I am disappointed there is no white house wedding.

It is not up to anyone else but Jenna and her fiance where the wedding will be held.

[Mila]

"The whiner is already married. She eloped in 2002. Now all of a sudden she wants a big wedding. This woman is a moron."

I don't think that it's all of a sudden. The article says that they were married on May 10, 2002 and that they planned to have a big wedding the next time the date fell on a Saturday. Her husband being a sheriff's deputy that might be called to duty if there was some difficulty in Crawford, just makes for a little human interest story. At least that's how I took it.

[mass55th]

"Her husband being a sheriff's deputy that might be called to duty if there was some difficulty in Crawford, just makes for a little human interest story. "

A human interest story would simply be that she and Jenna were sharing the same wedding date, not a story that makes it sound like Jenna's plans were getting in the way of her plans. And believe me, if her husband got the day off to get married, about the only way he'd be called in, would be if he was the only Sheriff left on the force.

[Mila]

"And believe me, if her husband got the day off to get married, about the only way he'd be called in, would be if he was the only Sheriff left on the force.

That's a good point.

[Xenalyte]

Having a big white wedding when you are already married - in this couple’s case, six YEARS ago - is a huge etiquette no-no and is extremely tacky.

[Richard Kimball]

This was a Waco Trib writer that got picked up by the Austin paper. She's kind of a featurette reporter, and the Trib is trying to make her kind of a newspaper star:

There are a series of articles about the wedding. In a couple of them she's angling for an invite. I'm sure it's a big deal to her, as the Bush's are keeping this wedding very low-key, and she'd love to get picked up with a national story covering the wedding. Anyway, the pieces are done as "humor" but it's clear she was hoping someone at the Western WH would give her a press invite. I guess she didn't get one, as the last one was this snarky piece. Quinn's articles are sometimes amusing, but it's kind of like "Lester's Possum Park." She doesn't really realize why people laugh.