# White House Wedding in the Offing?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-wedding-in-the-offing/721089>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 29, 2015, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-wedding-in-the-offing/721089 "2015-05-29T03:00:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-wedding-in-the-offing/721089/61 "2015-06-05T17:39:26Z")

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Hillary Clinton and Senator Boxer should remind the parties involved of what happened to the last couple that got married at the White House.

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**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-wedding-in-the-offing/721089/62 "2015-06-05T17:50:10Z")

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> [@puzzlegal](#):
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> Earnest money for marriage sounds very similar to “evidence he can support her” to me.

More like “I am giving you this thing of value to show you that I am serious about my promise.” From there follows the popular belief/custom that if a man breaks the engagement, she keeps the ring. If she breaks it, she gives the ring back.

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**Author:** ![Mr\_Quatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bc8723/32.png) [@Mr\_Quatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Quatro)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-wedding-in-the-offing/721089/63 "2015-06-05T18:24:22Z")

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I don’t know about the cows, but the sheep and the goats could really help out on the national debt by reducing the cost of maintaining the White House grounds and possibly even the Washington monument too could use the sheep and the goats.

This will require further investigating though … I would be glad to request a $100,000 dollar grant to study the effects of sheep and goats working together on the same property. 😃

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2015, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-wedding-in-the-offing/721089/64 "2015-06-06T00:45:57Z")

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Well, there’s certainly precedent for it: [http://www.whitehousehistory.org/history/white-house-facts-trivia/facts-wilson-sheep-world-war-one.html](http://www.whitehousehistory.org/history/white-house-facts-trivia/facts-wilson-sheep-world-war-one.html)

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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2015, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-wedding-in-the-offing/721089/65 "2015-06-06T00:50:13Z")

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> [@carnut](#):
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> But both engagement rings and livestock evolved as a way for a man to prove he could support a wife.

> [@MrDibble](#):
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> You’re still not getting the essential difference between the two…

It can be hell trying to wear a cow on your finger.

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