You plan a small wedding, register for a few gifts and try to kept it all pretty low-key. Might work for your average bride, but not for a U.S. senator.
Maine’s Sen. Susan Collins, 59, will tie the knot next week with consultant Thomas Daffron, 73. The couple announced their engagement in February and tried to keep details about the wedding private. Nice try! Even jaded reporters were all over one of the rare happy stories coming out of this Senate.
In June, Collins was the guest of honor at what we’re calling the Most Powerful Bachelorette Party Ever: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hosted a women-only dinner for the moderate Republican at Clinton’s D.C. home, inviting all 17 female senators and former Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Clinton and Collins served in the Senate for seven years together and both sat on the Senate Armed Services Committee.
The press learned more homey details from the couple’s wedding registries at Sur La Table, Williams-Sonoma and Crate & Barrel. The two bought a house on Capitol Hill last year and registered for mostly inexpensive household items: candles, a lemon-yellow hand mixer, queen-size sheets, reports Maine’s Sun Journal. (Most gifts are already spoken for, but you can still buy the cookie dough scoop for $12.95.)
“There are people from her roots and from her childhood and from Maine who are going to want to buy her gifts, and then there’s people like Hillary Clinton who want to buy her gifts and their means are very different,” Maine wedding planner Amber Small told the paper. “She’s not playing a Kim Kardashian, where everything is $3,000 for an ashtray.”
This will be Collins’s first marriage, Daffron’s second. The small family wedding is scheduled for Sat., Aug. 11 somewhere in Maine; the exact location has not been disclosed. The two met as staffers to then-Sen. Bill Cohen and have been dating for two years. No word on whether the first-time bride will wear a traditional long white gown.
But the couple will take a honeymoon. Collins, who has never missed a Senate vote, cast her 5,000th consecutive in July. The wedding and honeymoon were timed for the August recess so she won’t break her Ripken-like streak.
I wish them a happy and loving life together.
Lets put politics aside for a moment and wish her a happy marriage. I am a democrat but she works hard a what she believes in. Good luck Susan!
Susan and Thomas :) we wish you the best. Enjoy that honeymoon and know you are well appreciated.
i agree, she works very hard,,,,,,, for your party.. i agree with dan,, why is this news? who cares
Apparently you care enough to have read the article and commented on it!
lol,, nope to the article, and yes to the comment
that is because she acts like a democrat, just look at her latest tax vote. she might as well switch party
Same here from a fellow Dem.
Why is this even news?
Er, she’s our only current senator?
Only Senator? Every state has two…
I understand that she is one of Maine’s RINO senators, but again, why is the fact that she is getting married even news.
It’s more news-worthy than some of the stuff here…why not?
Get off her case!
I believe Susietrys to keep a lot of her decisions under the radar. Just a thought.
100% pure Liberal.
Ain’t that the TRUTH!
Don’t tell me they are living in sin! And a “Republican”! I’m shocked I tell you, Shocked!
You shock easily!
When do they surgically remove Joe Leiberman from Susan Collins!
I hope it is before the wedding otherwise it could get a little crowded!
You only see democrats wishing someone well, when the recipient walks, talks and acts like a democrat. democrats need to be defeated; period. No compromise; defeated. The country is being ruined by the worst thug terrorist democrat ever to walk the face of this planet and he’s being helped by every democrat thug in congress.
And every democrat thug on every news comment section of every media outlet in the country! Right, Dlbrt?
Using this happy occasion for political comments is tasteless and inappropriate. Whatever your political views are, I think its abundantly clear that Sen. Collins is an intelligent, hard working, ethical, and likeable person. Wish her well, and reserve political commentary for political occasions.
Senator, I do wish you and your husband the very best! Comgratulations and may life be good to you both.
let’s see somewhere in Maine. Where is she from?
She is from Caribou, where her family stills lives and owns a major business. My guess is that the wedding may take place somewhere near the Caribou area.
bingo
How about we all, especially the media, give Susan a break and let her have her wedding in peace. She is certainly deserving of this one day of her life out of the public scrutiny.
My invitation must have gotten lost in the mail. Wait, maybe it is just slow getting here. No cookie dough scoop from me.
Congrats to Susan Collins, if you marry on the 11th. of Aug. its my Birthday..lol
Congrats to Susan Collins if you Marry on the 11th. of august its my Birthday..lol
My guess is Cold Stream Lake in Enfield. That’s where her cottage is.
I wondered about Cariou or something in the Carbou area given sh eis from there, her family still lives there and runs a business and she owns property there…