Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski’s love affair has not been one for the ages. Both Mike and Joe were married to other people when they began working together on MSNBC, and both of their marriages crumbled as their affair consumed them. Mika takes care of Joe like a mother, apparently, and Joe just… I don’t know, yells at her and talks over her. There was always a lot of uncomfortable sexual tension between them, even after it was established that they were a couple. They got engaged in May 2017, and over the Thanksgiving weekend, they got married in Washington. DC. They gave Vanity Fair the exclusive, and VF did a lengthy write-up, which you can read here.

Where they married: At 5:40 p.m. on Saturday evening, Mika Brzezinski hurried out of a black S.U.V. a few dozen yards from the back entrance of the National Archives. An umbrella was popped open for her, and she walked into the historic library in order to get married to her longtime Morning Joe colleague and partner, Joe Scarborough, in front of the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Bill of Rights.

They wanted their wedding to be shrouded in secrecy: Washington was a post-Thanksgiving ghost town: Congress was out of session, the president was in Palm Beach, much of the city’s permanent class was away for the holiday or at home in suburban Maryland or Northern Virginia. Most of the people working for the vendors did not know the identity of the betrothed until Saturday evening, and many of the reservations were made under a friend’s name. The couple did not send out any formal invitations; they made about 14 phone calls to their family members and close friends, and none of the guests knew where the dinner was until Saturday evening.

The bride & groom’s attire: Brzezinski wore a stark-white, tea-length Milly dress, with delicate, polka-dotted lace sleeves that swept into a sweetheart neckline, created by her friend, designer Michelle Smith. Her shoes were custom-made by designer Layla-Joy Williams, who flew to her factory in Brazil with fabric from the dress to make sure the pointy-toed stilettos were just right. Scarborough, for his part, wore a black Zegna suit from his on-air rotation, what he called a Robert Mueller-approved white shirt, and a traditional black wedding tie. He affixed a boutonniere with a white orchid and green sprigs to his lapel.

Why they married at the Archives: “We did an event there more than a year ago and we were just blown away, seeing all these documents and how we felt seeing them,” Brzezinski told me before the ceremony, explaining how they settled on the rotunda in the Archives, with its 70-foot ceilings and those three historic documents framed behind glass, as the place where they wanted to marry. “It makes sense now more than ever, given what we stand for as a couple, what we do for a living, and what we’re worried about as a country.”

On having Elijah Cummings do the service: The couple denied that the decision was intended to suggest possible presidential aspirations for Scarborough, whose name is often invoked in putative 2020 and 2024 conversations. “We didn’t think of that at all,” Brzezinski told me. “But I’m sure people will say that.”

The cake & Mika’s name change: Before 10 o’clock, the couple cut into their 20-layer traditional crepe layer cake, and everyone had trickled out by about 10:45. I realized I had left without asking her the most important question: Was she changing her name, I texted her after everyone had gone home? “Yup,” she replied.

[From Vanity Fair]

So, there you go. I think so much of this is hilarious – they’re making such a big deal about how secret everything HAS TO BE… while they invite VF to document the entire thing. They claim that people are just desperate to know everything about their lives… as they spill all the details to VF without prompts. They claim to be so anti-Trump, but also they let VF know that Trump offered to host their wedding at the White House last year. As for Mika changing her name… ugh. I hate to admit though, I like the name “Scarborough.” It’s pretty and sing-songy. But Mika didn’t change her name for her first marriage, and now she’s changing it for Joe? Hm.

The Morning Joe co-hosts made it official in front of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. “It makes sense now more than ever, given what we stand for as a couple,” says Mika Brzezinski, “and what we’re worried about as a country” https://t.co/BEK6QlSpOk

— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) November 25, 2018

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