Obama golf game forces soldiers to change wedding site
Pro tip for wedding planners: You might want to avoid golf courses when President Obama is in town.
That's the lesson that Natalie Heimel and Edward Mallue Jr., both captains in the Army, learned this weekend, after their wedding in Hawaii was forced to move locations due to a presidential round of golf, according to Bloomberg:
The new venue was supposedly even better. And the president called and apologized, reportedly making the happy couple's day. All's well that ends well?
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