Ron DeSantis admits marrying Casey DeSantis at Disney World was ‘a little ironic’

  • Ron and Casey DeSantis got married Walt Disney World in 2009, Insider first reported.
  • The couple first opened up about their wedding in a Sirius XM Patriot radio interview.
  • Florida’s governor acknowledged that the choice was “somewhat ironic.”

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has spoken publicly for the first time about how he and his wife, Casey DeSantis, exchanged vows during a fairytale wedding at the Walt Disney Resort – only to get into a brutal battle with the family’s favorite. Company 13 years later.

In an interview with Florida First Lady Casey DeSantis, the Republican governor confirmed Insider’s November 2022 report of a wedding that had never been reported before and was not widely known among Florida’s political class.

“In anticipation of what we ended up doing as governor and some of the clashes we had with some of the big institutions in Florida, it’s kind of ironic,” DeSantis said, according to the transcript and recording of the interview. , which will air Monday on SiriusXM Patriot conservative radio.

In an interview, Casey DeSantis acknowledged that the revelation, made on the eve of Election Day, “created a lot of news.” According to her, her parents had the idea to get married at Disney World because they always looked forward to visiting a theme park when she was growing up in Ohio.

And one of the other great things was that they planned a lot for you,” she said of Disney’s wedding proposals. “So I could just show up. And it was really, really fun.”

The comments confirm Insider’s report after interviewing a guest at the wedding that Casey DeSantis “wanted something that was all-encompassing and put together.”

The interview clip does not provide details about the wedding, but Insider previously reported that the DeSantises ceremony took place at the Grand Floridian Wedding Pavilion, a chapel with arched windows overlooking Cinderella’s castle and the Seven Seas Lagoon. The reception was held at Epcot’s Italy Isola Hotel in homage to the couple’s Italian heritage.

When DeSantis ran for re-election in November 2022, he often boasted of his revenge on Disney for opposing his Parental Rights in Education Act, which opponents of the law, such as LGBTQ rights organizations, called “Don’t Say Gay.” He did not mention during his campaign that he had married there.

— Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantisFL) September 26, 2022

DeSantis retaliated against Disney after its leaders said they would work to repeal the Don’t Say Gay Act, removing the company’s self-governing status starting in June 2022. DeSantis is expected to sign another bill within days or weeks that would give him the power to appoint a state board to oversee the resort and theme park.

Disney is Florida’s largest private employer and has been a gay rights advocate since the 1990s.

A controversial school law bans the teaching of sexual orientation and gender identity from kindergarten through third grade, although it also contains vague language that such instruction in high school must be “age or developmentally appropriate.”

Some Florida school boards have shown they do not understand how to follow the law, and critics have said they are concerned that LGBT teachers’ speech will cool off and students will be bullied or handed over to families that do not accept them.

Casey DeSantis shared in an interview with the SiriusXM Patriots that she won’t be taking her three kids to Disney World “until things change a bit,” though she admitted her wedding was a “fun time” and revealed that her parents celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in theme park.

She also spoke about her first date with the future governor, who is widely believed to be considering running for president in 2024.

They met on the training field at the University of North Florida. In a 2018 interview with First Coast News, Casey DeSantis shared that she was practicing hitting and looked over her shoulder to see if she could grab an extra bucket of golf balls. DeSantis stood behind her and thought she was looking at him.

Casey DeSantis said in an interview with the SiriusXM Patriots that she didn’t know DeSantis would go into politics. But since then, Casey DeSantis has become an equal partner, a skilled image maker and a powerful confidante for her husband, Insider told Insider in an article about Florida’s first lady.

“We went out and had a beer,” Casey DeSantis said in an upcoming interview at Beef o’ Brady’s, a family sports restaurant. “That was the first time I met a guy and just followed him in his car to a place where you could have a beer. And actually, it was one of the best conversations I’ve ever had and we had a lot of fun. .”

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