Jenna Bush's wedding a secret service

President Bush spent months joking about being a father of the bride, but yesterday he was downright wistful about giving his daughter Jenna away to her longtime beau.

"Our little girl, Jenna, married a really good guy, Henry Hager," Bush said, standing next to his wife, Laura, at an airport in Waco, Texas, where he boarded Air Force One for his flight back to Washington. "The wedding was spectacular. It's just - it's all we could have hoped for."

Unlike other first family weddings that have been broadcast live, the Bushes didn't share their daughter's nuptials with the nation. The day after, however, they briefly shared their joy. "The weather cooperated nicely," Bush said about the wedding at his 1,600-acre Texas ranch. "Just as the vows were exchanged, the sun set over our lake, and it was just a special day and a wonderful day, and we're mighty blessed."

A reporter asked the president if he had been up late partying. Bush winked, then turned toward the plane, ignoring a second question about whether the wedding had given the slumping US economy a boost. In recent days, the White House has dribbled out details about the bride's dress, the ring, the wedding attire, and pre-wedding events. It was part of a carefully orchestrated communications strategy to disclose bits of information, but keep the wedding from becoming a media circus.

Yesterday, the White House released 11 photos of the affair at Bush's Prairie Chapel Ranch. Former President George H.W. Bush, who did a reading during the ceremony with former first lady Barbara Bush, moseyed back to the press section of the plane, but wouldn't dish. He said he dutifully replied "Yes sir!" when he was told not to disclose details. (AP)

You won't find the time Jodi Baldwin spent on the Boston set of "The Lonely Maiden" among her impressive list of credits. That's because the 28-year-old wardrobe and set pro was volunteering as a way to launch her nonprofit effort, the Film and Entertainment Recycling Initiative, which she set up to facilitate greener film and TV productions in the area. "On Friday when people would open up their paychecks - and in our business they aren't small paychecks - they would ask me what I brought in from the recycling, and it would be like $9," said Baldwin, who's currently working as a costume supervisor for "The Proposal," which stars Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock. A University of Rhode Island alum, Baldwin says the idea to start the recycling program gradually came to her. "I was working on 'Empire Falls' in Maine and loading up my truck with cardboard when we were done filming," said Baldwin. "But it was really on the set of 'Underdog' in Rhode Island. I was a costumer and working with wardrobe for background [actors], and there's just so much stuff being generated behind the scenes." In between her 14-hour days on "The Proposal," Baldwin's been handling the office recycling for Ricky Gervais's "This Side of the Truth" in Lowell and is in talks with Disney about doing the same for "The Surrogates." "It's common sense to me," she told us yesterday as she was en route to a recycling pickup. "But when it makes economic sense, all the sets will be doing it."

Mary Wilson (above), an original member of the Supremes, got the 1,300 people at the Boston Medical Center gala dancing at the Seaport World Trade Center. Saturday night's swinging soiree raised a whopping $2.1 million for the hospital.

The life story of Chris Paciello, the Miami nightclub maven whose New York criminal past came back to haunt him, is being made in a feature film. At a swish party at Set in Miami, it was announced that Emmy Award-winner Alan Taylor will direct "Unmade Man," which is based on former police reporter Michele McPhee's book "Mob Over Miami." McPhee now patrols the night airwaves with a weeknight chat show on WTKK-FM, (96.9). "I finally feel like it's going to happen," McPhee told us yesterday from Miami. "A lot of people have been talked about for this project, Mark Wahlberg, Leonardo DiCaprio . . . Eric Bana." Casting will take place over the summer with filming expected to start in the fall. Paciello was often spotted in the press entertaining A-List ladies like Jennifer Lopez, Madonna, and Niki Taylor. He was arrested and later jailed for robbery in which a New York woman was murdered.

Liv Tyler is bouncing back from her split from rocker husband Royston Langdon, her dad, Aerosmith's Steven Tyler told Us magazine. "Liv is doing great," Tyler said at the 4th Musicares Map Fund benefit in Hollywood over the weekend. The actress, 30, is the daughter of the Aerosmith frontman and former Playboy Playmate Bebe Buell. A rep for the couple confirmed to the magazine they were separating on May 8. Liv married the Arckid rocker, 36 in 2003 and they have a son, Milo, 3. "They remain good friends and devoted parents to their son Milo and are requesting that their family's privacy be respected at this time," the rep told Us.

A mighty one

Boxing champ John "The Quiet Man" Ruiz lived up to his nickname at the Centro Latino fund-raiser at Anthony's of Malden the other night. Ruiz signed autographs and posed for pictures but offered few words at the event held to raise money for the Chelsea-based human services and education center that serves more than 5,000 Latinos and immigrants.

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