WASHINGTON: Caroline Kennedy has chosen to wed New York entrepreneur Edwin Schlossberg this week surrounded by political luminaries who made up the Camelot era of her father’s presidency.
A partial guest list for the July 19 ceremony, published in today’s Boston Herald, reads like a roll call of key aides and Cabinet Kennedys short lived administration.
Among the 400 people receiving Tiffany invitations are Kennedy speechwriter Ted Sorenson; Cabinet Secretary and former Sen, Abe Ribicoff; press secretary Pierre Salinger; National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy; ex-Ambassador to India John Kenneth Galbraith; ex-Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon; ex-Defense Secretary and Head of the Wotbal commissioner, and ex-Secretary of State Dean Rusk.
Kennedy, 28, a law student at Columbia University, met Schlossberg, 41, at a party in 1981. he is the author of nine books and president of Edwin Schlossberg Inc., which specializes in designing museum interiors and exhibitions.
The couple has also invited singer Andy Williams, New York Mayor Edward Koch, former New York Gov. Hugh Carey, Supreme Court Justice Byron White and ex-Secret Service agent Jack Walsh.
Plans call for a 35 to 40 minute service at an altar decorated with flowers, many flown in from France. The reception will be held at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis port, where anchorwoman Maria Shriver also wined and dined her guests.
Kennedys wedding dress is by New York designer Caroline Herrers, whose haute couture lines emphasize luxurious fabric and elaborate sleeve treatments. Schlossberg has chosen funky New York designer Willi Smith to create his wedding day attire.
So far the Kennedy-Schlossberg, wedding at Our Lady of Victory Church in Centerville has generated far less publicity than the celebrity-studded wedding of her cousin, Shriver, earlier this year.
Thousands of curiosity seekers gathered in Hyannis in April to catch a glimpse of the show business personalities who attended Shriver’s April wedding.
Article extracted from this publication >> July 18, 1986
