Editing Martha Washington (section)

=== Courtship and wedding ===
[[File:The Marriage of Washington to Martha Custis by Junius Brutus Stear.jpg|thumb|''The Marriage of Washington to Martha Custis'' by Junius Brutus Stears (1849)]]
By one account Custis met George Washington during the [[Williamsburg, Virginia|Williamsburg]] social season, and they courted over the following months during his leaves from the military.<ref name="gould"/>{{Rp|page=4}} By another, they were introduced by Colonel Chamberlayne, a mutual acquaintance, when they both stayed the night at his home in May 1758.<ref name="boller"/>{{Rp|pages=8–9}} They married on January 6, 1759, at the White House plantation.<ref name="gould"/>{{Rp|page=5}}

The couple honeymooned at the Custis family's White House plantation,<ref name="Bryan"/>{{Rp|page=124}} followed by a stay in Williamsburg where her husband was a representative in the [[House of Burgesses]] before setting up house at his [[Mount Vernon]] estate.<ref name="schneider"/>{{Rp|page=3}} At the time of their wedding, she was one of the wealthiest widows in the [[Thirteen Colonies]].<ref name="beasley">{{Cite book |last=Beasley |first=Maurine H. |url=https://archive.org/details/firstladiespress0000beas |title=First Ladies and the Press: The Unfinished Partnership of the Media Age |publisher=Northwestern University Press |year=2005 |isbn=9780810123120 |pages=27–30}}</ref>{{Rp|page=27}} Their marriage remained happy over the following 40 years, in part because of their similar worldviews.<ref name="gould"/>{{Rp|page=4}} It was a marriage based in mutual respect and shared habits, with both maintaining similar schedules in day-to-day life and both prioritizing family and image over excitement and vice.<ref name="watson"/>{{Rp|page=11}}