Posted on 09/03/2019 8:05:21 PM PDT by simpson96
The 1953 wedding of Jacqueline Bouvier and then-Sen. John F. Kennedy was so perfect it is still being talked about more than 65 years later. As recently as 2017, gossip website The List was still calling it the most beautiful wedding ever. It was a fairy tale worthy of the legendary couple who would preside over Camelot.
But for Ann Lowe, who designed the bridal gown, it was a nightmare. First, the wedding dress was destroyed 10 days before the ceremony. Then the 24-year-old bride, who did not really like the gown in the first place, snubbed her.
Asked who made the dress, a viral tweet remembered this week, Jackie simply responded a colored dressmaker.(snip)
By that point, Lowe had been working with the Bouviers for years, and she had a friendly relationship with 24-year-old Jackie, she later said. But it was not really Jackies show. The grooms father the famously domineering Joseph Kennedy was involved in every detail of wedding planning, including the dress,(snip)
Lowe does not seem to have held a grudge about it, though. By 1964, she was telling the Saturday Evening Post how sweet Jackie Kennedy, by then a widow and former first lady, had been to her.(snip)
By the mid-1960s, she was tens of thousands of dollars in debt and in trouble with the IRS.
Then, an anonymous friend paid her back taxes, cutting her debts in half. Lowe suspected the anonymous friend was Jackie.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
I was the same age as you also on Long Island. My parents were republicans and had voted for Nixon. There was something very special about those Camelot years.
Well I sorta liked this wedding story & photos.
https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/maid-of-honor-t-rex-costume-sister-wedding
Theres Youtube videos of her speeches. Every third or fourth word is “you know”.
“The grooms father the famously domineering Joseph Kennedy was involved in every detail of wedding planning, including the dress,(snip)”
Joe had planned for his oldest son, Joe Jr, to be President. That unraveled when Joe Jr was killed in World War 2. Jack was next in line and Joe was determined that Jack would be President.
Jackie was a young woman who was from an acceptable family, had gone to acceptable schools and had the necessary pedigree to be acceptable to Joe.
Joe Kennedy planned everything from Jack and Jackies courtship to the wedding and may have even required proof that the marriage had been consummated. He was that much of power freak.
Lovely post.
Good catch.
Exactly my point she sounded like some teenage Valley girl, just STUNNING!!!
Whores all
And it turns out that Jackie made up the whole Camelot thing. Yep, it was a figment of her imagination but the press just ate it up.
Her one true love isnt seen in this pic I think. (RFK)
Mary Todd Lincoln had a black dressmaker too...former slave, Elizabeth Keckley.
Heres a funny story. My dad was a writer and he did articles on people he did a story on the. Senator Jack Kennedy for the Saturday evening post. He relayed to me that the most memorable thing about that story to him was when he went to their apartment in New York Jackie Kennedy answered the door in a short bathrobe. All he remembers is that she was incredibly bowlegged from the horse riding I guess.
Great story.
Jackie who?
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