Weddings in History
Eleanor & Franklin D. Roosevelt
1905 Eleanor Roosevelt (20) marries Franklin D. Roosevelt (23) later 32nd US President in New York, & given away by her uncle, 26th President Theodore Roosevelt
Alice Walker
1967 "The Color Purple" novelist Alice Walker (23) weds civil rights lawyer Melvyn Leventhal (23) in New York City; divorce in 1976
- 2006 Publicist Lizzie Grubman (35) weds Chris Stern in New York