EXETER — Former first lady Stephanie Chafee sat in the back during the Exeter Town Council meeting Monday night, waiting for her agenda item to come up.

When it did, she stood and defended her application for a one-day outdoor entertainment license for Sept. 5, 2020. Her daughter, 2016 Olympic sailor Louisa Chafee, is getting married to David Kutai Weiss, who earned his Ph.D. in geology from Brown University.

The wedding and reception will be at the Wee Hoose Farm — if not a storybook wedding location, then at least a storied one.

The secluded compound off Route 102 (Victory Highway) has been in Stephanie Chafee’s family for generations. She is planning to have 120 to 150 guests, and food prepared by a Connecticut company that caters all over New England and has a liquor license in every state.

There will be a band, hence the outdoor entertainment license. Stephanie Chafee had procured the necessary insurance and found police officers who agreed to watch out for everyone's safety.

What went unsaid at the council meeting Monday is the trouble at the Wee Hoose in 2012, when son Caleb, then 18, had a poorly supervised party that resulted in one teen going to the hospital for suspected alcohol poisoning. Caleb Chafee later pleaded no contest to violating the state's social host law. He was fined $500 and had to do 30 hours of community service. In 2013, the record was expunged.

Council President Cal Ellis thanked Stephanie Chafee for setting a good example by following proper procedure. Town Clerk Lynn Hawkins did the math in her head and told Chafee that she will have to pay $312.70 for advertising the license award three times in the local paper.

The council voted to grant the license.

Stephanie and her husband, former U.S. senator, Rhode Island governor and presidential hopeful Lincoln Chafee, live in Teton Village, Wyoming, a five-square-mile hamlet at the base of the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. It’s near the Idaho line and not far from the unincorporated communities of Moose and West Thumb.

The Chafees have two daughters, Louisa, 28, and Thea, 22. Louisa is a 2014 Brown graduate, having majored in folklore and mythology and written her honors thesis on dragons, according to her biography at teamusa.org.

She and her teammate, Bora Gulari, placed eighth among 20 teams in the 2016 Olympic debut of the Nacra 17 sailing class. She is a three-time sailing All-American.