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Tiny Crawford relegated to supporting role for Jenna Bush wedding
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CRAWFORD, Texas: So close and yet so far: Tiny Crawford is sort of
like a bridesmaid at arm's length from Jenna Bush's wedding Saturday.
All of the action is at President George W. Bush's 1,600-acre
(648-hectare) ranch seven playing cards promotional (11 kilometers) outside this
one-stoplight town.
The more than 200 Bush family and friends invited to the nuptials
might never even set foot downtown.
"It's a private ceremony. It's an exciting time for the Bush family,"
White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said Friday. "They're all
beginning to converge here promo playing cards Texas and in Crawford and I know the
president and Mrs. Bush are really looking forward to this weekend."
With no hotels in town, local Crawford residents are more likely to
welcome tourists who just want to say they were here when Jenna
married her longtime boyfriend, Henry Hager.
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The locals don't seem to mind playing a supporting role.
"It's amazing how many people just want to be in the area," said
Marilyn Judy, president of the Crawford Chamber of Commerce. She
recounted a call from a woman in Dallas, a two-hour drive
from Crawford.
"I asked 'Oh, are you going to be going to the wedding?'" Judy asked.
The woman replied: "No, I just want to be in town when
it's happening.'"
It wasn't until late this week that the downtown began to show signs
of the event, which will end up in presidential bridge size playing cards books.
A white banner with red wedding bells on either side of
"Congratulations customized playing cards and Henry" now stretches across a
local storefront.
A few doors down, a white wedding veil adorns an 18-foot metal
sculpture of an angel, a gift to Crawford in 2004. The rusty emo style a side-view silhouette of an angel, is titled "Freedom's Angel of
Steadfast Love." It was created by Lei Hennessy-Owen of Jennerstown,
Pennsylvania, and given to the city after Bush's re-election.
For July Fourth, the U.S.'s Independence Day, the angel is decorated
in red, white and blue. She holds a wreath during the holidays. For
the wedding, Judy put a bouquet of white flowers in her hands and
sewed her a veil that flutters in the warm breeze.
"We were trying to think of ways to give something for people to look
at when they came to town — ways to welcome people to Crawford," she
said. streetwear fashion thought we'd have the angel dressed as a bride."
Some businesses, like The Yellow Rose, are doing a brisk business
selling independent fashion mugs with the couple's photo inside a red heart.
Down the street, poker cards life-size cardboard cutout of a much-younger Bush
greets patrons at The Red Bull Gift and Gallery. There you can buy $3
(€1.94) Jenna and Henry key rings, a $10 (€6.5) mouse pad emblazoned
with the smiling couple, or a mug with the same photo and date of
their marriage.
The wedding display also features cream-colored ceramic trinkets in
the shape of Texas painted with "J + H." Jenna's book "Ana's Story: A
Journey of Hope" about a single mother in Latin America with AIDS, and
"Read All About It!" a book she wrote with the first auto insurance are peddled
near packets of Texas wildflower seeds and license plates imprinted
with "Cowgirl."
Jamie Burgess, manager of The Red Bull, says people often stop
downtown just to ask how to get to the ranch.
Burgess says she tells them that the road leading to the ranch is
barricaded far from the entrance to Bush's property. She says those
who aren't deterred reply: "We may just try going anyway."
Burgess doesn't argue, even though she knows that if they get too
close, they'll find themselves face-to-face with the Secret Service or
a Texas state trooper.
chinese lessons chicago Citrano in nearby McGregor, about six miles (about 10
kilometers) from Crawford, also runs a souvenir business selling
Western White House gifts. She spent two days making a independent style cake
learn chinese chicago buttercream frosting to serve Saturday to patrons of her
husband's Coffee Shop and Cafe. The three-tiered white cake, with
lemony filling and raspberry sauce to drizzle on top, is decorated
with two Secret Service agents protecting a White House that adorns
the top. She said local residents aren't upset about homeowners insurance being
invited, but she's convinced there are plenty of people interested in
the details. In the weeks leading up to the wedding, the hits on her
business web site have topped 30,000 a week.
"I got one call from somebody in Britain and this morning, one from
Sweden," she said.
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