While the world mourns the loss of a true steel magnolia, Lady Bird Johnson, it might be fitting to take a look back at a singular Catholic element of her life: the wedding of her daughter Luci in 1966 at Washington’s Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.

Time magazine, helpfully, detailed every breathless moment leading up to the nuptials — even mentioning that Luci didn’t need to be baptized when she converted, since she’d already been christened in the Episcopal church at birth. (Unhappily, the marriage didn’t last; Luci and Patrick Nugent divorced in 1979, and she remarried a Canadian banker.)

Read the article for more. To my knowledge, this “White House wedding” is the first and perhaps only one to take place in a Catholic church.