Carole Radziwill is sharing rare photographs from the ultra-private wedding of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy.
The "Real Housewives of New York City" alum shared exclusive photographs she took during the couple's intimate 1996 ceremony with CNN in anticipation of the cable network's three-part series "American Prince: JFK Jr," which premieres Aug. 9.
"It's almost like they eloped with 30 of their closest friends. It was very much like that," Radziwill told CNN about the Kennedys' ceremony in a one-room church on Cumberland Island in Georgia. "You didn't get the sense that anything was overly planned. They just let things happen the way they happened. And there was something so beautiful about that."
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In one photo, the power couple cut their three-tier wedding cake while another features Kennedy Jr. pictured with a faith leader and his uncle Ted Kennedy. Kennedy, the longtime U.S. senator representing Massachusetts, died in 2009. Another snap captured the fashion power couple dancing after the ceremony as Bessette Kennedy wears her husband's suit jacket.
