President Donald Trump and first girl Melania Trump are celebrating a milestone anniversary on Jan. 22, 2025. The day marks the couple’s twentieth wedding ceremony anniversary.
In 2005, properly earlier than real-estate developer Trump turned the forty fifth and now the forty seventh president of the US, he married his fiancé, mannequin Melania Knauss, at a 350-guest wedding ceremony ceremony on the Episcopal Church of Bethesda-By-the-Sea in Palm Seashore, Florida. The couple met in 1998 at a celebration in New York Metropolis.
Their wedding ceremony was adopted by a star-studded reception at his Mar-a-Lago property.
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The luxurious wedding ceremony was described on the time as match for royalty — from the spectacular robe Melania Trump wore to the immaculately embellished reception at Trump’s personal membership.
The long run first girl wore a $100,000 Christian Dior wedding ceremony robe. It consisted of a 13-foot prepare and a 16-foot-long veil coated in beading that reportedly took over 500 hours of hand stitching to create, in accordance with printed accounts of the occasion in The Palm Seashore Put up and The Palm Seashore Each day Information on the time.
The couple is proven celebrating with mates on New 12 months’s Eve earlier than they had been married on Jan. 22, 2005. (Davidoff Studios/Getty Pictures)
The Donald J. Trump ballroom at Mar-a-Lago was reportedly adorned with 10,000 flowers for the event.
Cooks served caviar and Cristal champagne was out there for 500 friends.
In an account in Jan. 2005, The Palm Seashore Each day Information stated the dinner included “beggar’s purses stuffed with caviar, tenderloin finished to a flip, miniature wedding ceremony desserts and the best Cristal poured into a kind of magical glasses that’s by no means, ever empty.”
On Jan. 21, 2005, in West Palm Seashore, Melania Knauss is seen leaving the Episcopal Church of Bethesda by-the-Sea after her wedding ceremony rehearsal with Donald Trump on Friday afternoon. The 2 had been married on the church on Saturday evening (Greg Lovett/West Palm Seashore-USA TODAY NETWORK). (Greg Lovett/USA As we speak/Imagn)
On Jan. 22, 2005, a employee might be seen inserting flowers across the entrance of the Bethesda-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church the place Trump married Melania Knauss in Palm Seashore, Florida. (Steve Mitchell/USA As we speak/Imagn)
The inside of the church at Bethesda-by-the-Sea in West Palm Seashore is proven on Jan. 18, 2005. The Trump nuptials came about on Jan. 22, 2005. (Jeffrey Langlois/USA As we speak/Imagn)
The report went on, “Lengthy tables for 20 stuffed the ballroom, with its gleaming chandeliers and intensive gold leaf. Designer Preston Bailey set the tables in cream and gold, from linens and china to flatware.
“Monumental candelabrae had been wrapped high to backside in white orchids and roses,” the account continued. “A stage on the east finish of the room held the Michael Rose Orchestra.
“This was not your typical wedding ceremony reception,” the society column in 2005 continued.
Melania Trump waves after marrying Donald Trump at The Episcopal Church of Bethesda by-the-Sea in West Palm Seashore, on Jan. 22, 2005. (Jeffrey Langlois/Palm Seashore Each day Information/Imagn)
Writing in her latest bestselling memoir, “Melania,” the primary girl stated of her wedding ceremony day, “Though my wedding ceremony was grand in scale … what I felt in my coronary heart was what each different bride feels on her special occasion. The stress to make sure every part went easily was actually actual, however finally, my major focus was celebrating Donald and my love and dedication, surrounded by my family members.”
In attendance on the ceremony had been members of the media, Hollywood stars and plenty of others.
Group portrait of, from left, the Trumps and TV hosts Pleasure and Regis Philbin as they pose collectively on the Mar-a-Lago property, Palm Seashore, Florida, 2005. (Davidoff Studios/Getty Pictures)
Additionally current for the grand event had been award-winning musicians Paul Anka, Billy Joel and Donna Summer season — plus main political figures resembling Invoice and Hillary Clinton.
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The Trumps, in fact, would go on to have their son, Barron William Trump — President Trump’s fifth and youngest little one — who was born on March 20, 2006, in New York Metropolis.
President Trump and first girl Melania Trump are proven on the president’s first inauguration day strolling the parade route on Pennsylvania Avenue forward of his first time period as chief government. Son Barron Trump is at left. (Evan Vucci/USA As we speak Community)
The Trumps at their first inauguration festivities. Melania Trump offered the Hervé Pierre-designed robe she wore throughout President Trump’s first inauguration in Jan. 2017 to the Smithsonian. The vanilla silk crepe off-the-shoulder robe with a slit skirt and ruffled accent trim from neckline to hem is now displayed prominently within the First Women exhibition. (Reuters)
Barron Trump is eighteen years outdated right this moment. He’s a school scholar this yr at New York College, at its NYU Stern Faculty of Enterprise.
He performed a key function in his father’s successful a second White Home time period, in accordance with many.
President Donald Trump and first girl Melania Trump place their arms on their chests throughout a “Salute to America” occasion on the South Garden of the White Home, Saturday, July 4, 2020, in Washington. (AP Picture/Patrick Semansky)
Melania Trump seems at son Barron Trump after President Trump delivered his acceptance speech for the Republican presidential nomination on the South Garden of the White Home on Aug. 27, 2020, in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Pictures)
Morgan & Morgan founder John Morgan stated on Fox Information in Nov. 2024 that Barron Trump’s insistence that his dad go on “The Joe Rogan Expertise” and different in style podcasts was vital to beating Vice President Kamala Harris within the presidential election.
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“It seems that Barron Trump, who seems like a runway mannequin, was telling his father, ‘You might want to go on podcasts, that you must go on Joe Rogan,'” he stated.
Barron Trump arrives on the inauguration of his father within the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Donald Trump took workplace as forty seventh president of the US for his second time period. (Chip Somodevilla/Pool by way of Getty Pictures)
Barron Trump gestures as he’s acknowledged throughout an indoor inauguration parade at Capital One Area on Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Pictures)
After a packed day of inauguration occasions on Monday, President Trump arrived that night on the Commander-in-Chief Ball shortly after 10 p.m. ET.
He shared his first dance together with his first girl – his first of three ball appearances that evening.
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Shortly after the band performed “Individuals, We,” Trump was launched by an emcee on the Walter Washington Conference Middle in Mount Vernon Sq..
The Trumps dazzled friends on the inaugural balls on Monday night. (Joe Raedle/Getty Pictures)
The presidential couple on the dance ground on Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Joe Raedle/Getty Pictures)
President Trump and Melania Trump attend the Commander-In-Chief inaugural ball on the Walter E. Washington Conference Middle in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, 2025. (JIM WATSON/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
The balls comply with a totally packed day of occasions that included President Trump’s formal swearing-in ceremony, an inaugural parade at Capital One Area, an Oval Workplace signing ceremony and rather more.
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Jeffrey Clark, Charles Creitz and Alec Schemmel, all of Fox Information Digital, contributed reporting.
