In keeping with tradition, Dr. Howard Krein wanted to seek his girlfriend’s father’s permission before asking Ashley Biden to marry him. So, according to Jill Biden in an interview with Wilmington’s News Journal, Krein jumped on Vice President Biden‘s favorite form of transportation — the Amtrak train — so he could have the conversation with the vice president in Washington. But the 7:30 p.m. train to Washington was delayed, so much in fact that Krein didn’t get to ask the vice president the big question until after 1 a.m. “He asked for Ashley’s hand and of course Joe said yes,” Jill Biden told her hometown paper. Krein then asked Ashley the question on a trip to California and she, too, said yes.
The couple wed Saturday in Delaware, in a joint Jewish-Catholic ceremony, at the same church where Ashley was baptized. The vice president gave her away and both the Biden brothers and their families were part of the 27-person wedding party. “I kept telling Ash, we’ve got to open up the church and practice walking up and down the aisle so I can handle it,” the vice president told People magazine days before the wedding, hoping that he wouldn’t become emotional.
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One wedding detail wasn’t let out of the bag until Saturday — who made Ashley’s dress. Following the likes of Kim Kardashian and Chelsea Clinton, the bride chose Vera Wang. The reception, for the 200 close family and friends, was held at the Bidens lakefront home in Wilmington.
The couple plans to live in Philadelphia, which is, of course, only a short train ride away from Wilmington and Washington.
