Despite their tumultuous relationship, John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette tied the knot in a private ceremony on Cumberland Island in Georgia in 1996. Apparently, the small wedding was kept so under wraps that the papers (and some family members) didn't know until the next day. As the couple's friend, Carole Radziwill, wrote for the Daily Mail: "There were wild horses and wildflowers, it was untouched and bucolic. That night there was a wedding — one of the best-kept secrets of modern time. It was the most famous wedding of the year, the decade. ... And no one but the thirty-two close friends and family who arrived, knew." Apparently, guests were asked to show a nickel as a sign that they were invited to the exclusive event.
Bessette wore a dress by designer, Narciso Rodriguez, along with her famous red lipstick. Even though Rodriguez made the dress for his friend, when a picture of the wedding made it to the front pages, he became a "very public person overnight," as he put it (via YouTube). The couple couldn't have been happier.
In a documentary entitled "JFK Jr. and Carolyn's Wedding: The Lost Tapes," Sasha Chermayeff, an old friend, commented on the intimate, romantic nature of the wedding. "They wanted something that really felt real to them," she said (via YouTube). "It was really beautiful, 'cause they just wanted to dance together. It wasn't an exhibition, it was something that really had, you know, meaning."
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