Gingrich Is Married for Third Time
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and onetime congressional aide Callista Bisek were married Friday night in a private ceremony in a hotel courtyard.
About 150 friends and relatives attended the ceremony under a tent at the Morrison House hotel in this Washington suburb.
Gingrich, in tails, walked into the small courtyard to the strains of Pachelbel’s Canon played by a string quintet. Bisek wore a white, strapless dress with short train. The four bridesmaids, one of whom moments earlier had sung “Ave Maria,” wore black gowns and held small rose bouquets.
The service was conducted by former House chaplain the Rev. James Ford. Gingrich’s half-brother, Randy McPherson, and a friend of Bisek, Mary Jo Kamish, served as best man and maid of honor. Gingrich’s half-sister, Candace, also was in attendance, clad in a hot-pink suit.
It was the third marriage for Gingrich, 57, and the first for his 34-year-old bride. Gingrich was divorced from his second wife, Marianne, in December 1999 after 18 years of marriage. He divorced his first wife, Jackie, his high school geometry teacher, after 19 years.
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