How John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kept Their Wedding Under Wraps
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Love Story shows the couple’s intimate nuptials on a tiny island. Evading the press was a more complicated endeavor even than depicted onscreen
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Fact Vs. Fiction How John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kept Their Wedding Under Wraps Love Story shows the couple’s intimate nuptials on a tiny island. Evading the press was a more complicated endeavor even than depicted onscreen By Kate Storey Kate Storey Contact Kate Storey on X Contact Kate Storey by Email View all posts by Kate Storey March 5, 2026 As the summer of 1996 wound down, John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette started telling their closest circle the big news. They invited their friends Billy and Kathleen Noonan over to their Hyannis Port home to have a toast using the old glassware John’s parents had been given on a family trip to Ireland. As soon as Billy saw the family crest-inscribed cups, he knew John and Carolyn were about to make a big announcement. He knew they were getting married. John and Billy eventually went up to the house’s widow’s walk — the small balcony where sailors’ wives used to wait, looking out to the Nantucket Sound. John had spent his whole life coming to this house, which backed up to the home where his father had spent his summers as a kid. This little balcony was always a place where his family members could get away from it all — Jackie liked to go up there to sunbathe, and John sometimes went up there with buddies to smoke weed. “Do you think she’s the right one?” John asked Billy, who I spoke with for my book, White House by the Sea , about the Kennedy family’s lives in Hyannis Port. Billy told John he did, and they went back downstairs to join the women. John and Carolyn told the Noonans that all the details about the wedding would have to be kept completely under wraps. Guests wouldn’t even know where it was being held until the very last moment. The media’s interest in the couple was at a fever pitch that summer, and leaked details would surely mean paparazzi lurking outside of their venue. “To pull it off we just have to elude every single journalist in the country,” the Carolyn character (played by Sarah Pid...
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