Jacqueline Bouvier’s 1953 wedding to John F. Kennedy was one of the most-talked about weddings – and now new images of the couple on their big day are up for auction.
The unseen and rare photos were taken by freelancer photographer Arthur Borges, who was instructed to shoot pictures of the couple when the wedding’s official photographer Lisa Larsen was reloading her camera or changing position.
The images were left unpublished and are now for sale with RR Auction.
Bobby Livingston, from RR Auction, told the Express that “the photos aren’t staged in any way and as a result JFK and Jackie Kennedy are very relaxed, laughing with one another and chatting with their families”.
“That’s what makes these photos so great now,” he said. “The Kennedys are the closest thing to a royal family we have in the United States and these are never-seen-before photos from the wedding.
JFK was assassinated 10 years later in Dallas, Texas, while Jackie O died in 1994.
Jacqueline Bouvier and John F. Kennedy cut their wedding cake. Picture: RR Auctions
A rare image of the bridal party. Picture: RR Auctions
Jacqueline Bouvier’s 1953 wedding to John F. Kennedy. Picture: RR AUCTIONS
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, with his wife Jacqueline and their children Caroline and John Jnr on Easter Sunday at Palm Beach, Miami, Florida, 14th April 1963.
Jacqueline Kennedy stands with her two children Caroline Kennedy and John F. Kennedy, Jr at the President’s funeral in 1963.
John F. Kennedy, Jr. playing with his mother’s necklace at the White House in 1962. The simulated Pearl Necklace worn by Jacqueline Kennedy while in residence at the White House sold for USD 190,000 during the Sotheby’s auction of the estate of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis 25 April 1996 in New York.
