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Hager told her fellow Today Show cohosts that it was a \"very secret wedding a little bit like my elusive sister\" and that it was \"just family in a place that means family love.\"

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Happy tears, heart exploding as I watched this beautiful girl get married in the place that means love and family. I’m so proud to be this beauties sister. ????????

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She also said that part of the reason why the couple chose to get married on the Bush compound in Maine was so that their grandfather, former President George H.W. Bush, could attend.

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Poppy and Poppy! Magical memories of a beautiful night. ????

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Hager gave a speech during the reception, singing her sister's praises.

\"I just told her and everybody how much she means to me but I ended with a letter that my grandfather wrote to my grandmother because I searched all the romantics and Shakespeare just wasn't doing it,\" Hager said in a phone interview on Today.

The photographer, Paul Morse, posted three photos from the ceremony, one showing how the couple was showered with white flower petals as they walked down the aisle after the ceremony.

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So honored to photograph the wedding of Barbara Bush and Craig Coyne at Walkers Point in Kennebunkport, Maine. @barbaritabush @verawanggang . . . #southernbride #southernwedding #southernweddings #southernweddingphotographer #nolaweddingphotographer #weddingphotography #weddingphotojournalist #paulmorsephotography #luxuryweddingplanner?#destinationweddings #destinationweddingplanner #destinationweddingphotographers #destinationweddingphotography ?#neworleansweddingphotographer #neworleanswedding #neworleansweddings #nolawedding #neworleansbride #southernwedding #funwedding #tietheknot

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The wedding ceremony was a true family affair, with the bride's aunt Dorothy Bush Koch officiating.

Barbara Bush wore a custom ivory silk Vera Wang gown. She told People that she kept with tradition by wearing a bracelet that her grandfather gave her grandmother Barbara, who died in April, as her \"something borrowed\" and a pair of earrings from her sister Jenna as her \"something blue.\"

\"PHOTO:
Courtesy Paul Morse
PHOTO: Barbara Pierce Bush married Craig Louis Coyne in a private family ceremony at Walker's Point in Kennebunkport, Maine, Oct. 7, 2018.
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The groom is a screenwriter and the married couple will live in New York City, as does her sister Jenna and her family.

\"We’ve been excited to do such a small wedding with just our family,\" Barbara Bush told People.

\"PHOTO:
Courtesy Allison V. Smith
PHOTO: Barbara Pierce Bush, right, married Craig Louis Coyne in a private family ceremony at Walker’s Point in Kennebunkport, Maine, Oct. 7, 2018.
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