For the first time in more than a decade, a wedding will take place at the governor’s mansion in Maryland.
Massive white tents were assembled on the front lawn of Government House in Annapolis where 150 guests were to celebrate the nuptials of Gov. Larry Hogan’s daughter on Saturday.
Julie Kim and Taesoo Kim, both in their early 30s, are the first couple to wed at the mansion since 2002, when then-Gov. Parris Glendening married Jennifer Crawford, a former deputy chief of staff, in a brief ceremony.
In 1971, then-Gov. Marvin Mandel gave away his daughter, Ellen, during a wedding at Government House.
Julie Kim is one of Yumi Hogan’s three daughters from her first marriage. Gov. Hogan refers to his wife’s daughters as his daughters, and they call him Dad.
Doug Mayer, a spokesman for Hogan, said the governor will give Kim away and the pair will dance to Tim McGraw’s “Live Like You Were Dying,” a song that became a favorite of the governor during his bout with cancer last year.
Mayer said the Hogan family will pay for the cost of the wedding. The couple, whose shared last name is a common Korean surname, met each other while working overseas in Japan. Both graduated from the University of Michigan and still live in that state.
Hogan has another family wedding coming up in a couple of weeks. After a trade mission in Israel, he will stop in Italy for the wedding of Tim Hogan, his half-brother. The governor will return to Maryland on Oct. 2.
