Thursday, September 8, 2011

Michelle Rhee and Kevin Johnson kept their wedding under the radar - The Reliable Source - The Washington Post

Michelle Rhee and Kevin Johnson kept their wedding under the radar - The Reliable Source - The Washington Post:

Michelle Rhee and Kevin Johnson kept their wedding under the radar


Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson and his now wife, Michelle Rhee, in Sun Valley, Idaho, last summer. (Bloomberg via Getty Images/ Matthew Staver)

You have to hand it to Michelle Rhee and Kevin Johnson: They pulled off the low-key wedding they wanted.

The former D.C. schools chancellor, 41, and the Sacramento mayor, 45, tied the knot in front of about 40 friends Saturday at a Tennessee mountain resort — almost a year after they canceled a more lavish ceremony that drew too much media attention for their liking.

This time, the much-watched power couple kept it under the radar: Even the mayor’s top aides were unaware until he showed up at City Hall on Tuesday wearing a wedding ring, according to the Sacramento Bee, which broke the news of the nuptials.

“The key to it was we did it very quickly,” Rhee told us Wednesday, on