The untold story of Ann Lowe, the Black designer behind Jackie Kennedy s wedding dress By: CNN
Allyssia Alleyne, CNN
(CNN) Some 800 guests saw the dress at the ceremony at St. Mary s Roman Catholic Church in Newport, Rhode Island, and 400 more watched it glide through the reception that evening. And then there were the 3,000 well-wishers who broke through police barricades to witness Jacqueline Lee Bouvier s arrival at her wedding to then Sen. John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
A photo of the newlyweds ran on the front page of The New York Times on September 13, 1953. But the grainy black-and-white shot, the bride half obscured by her husband, couldn t do justice to the bouffant skirtand the layers of silk taffeta, the intricate scallop pintucks and tiny flowers of wax a fitting choice for the woman who would go on to become American royalty.
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RINGTOWN â Downtown Ringtown will be full of festive holiday fun this weekend with the first-ever Olde Fashioned Christmas event.
The event will be from 3 to 8 p.m. Saturday and 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday and is being hosted by the Ringtown Rotary Club and Pine Hollow Soaps in Ringtown.
On the schedule for the event are old-fashioned Christmas carolers, a live Nativity scene, petting zoo, free horse-drawn carriage rides (Sunday only) and story time with Santa Claus.
More than 40 food and merchandise vendors are to be set up like a Christmas Market throughout the center of town.
As visitors stroll along Main and other streets, they will hear the bells of St. Mary Roman Catholic Church playing classic Christmas hymns.