Robert F. Kennedy’s granddaughter enjoyed a second wedding celebration on the historic family grounds during a ceremony filled with Kennedy heirlooms.
Sarah Kennedy, the daughter of businessman Chris Kennedy, initially tied the knot with Harvard Business School student Jam Sulahry on June 17, 2022, in a small Islamic ceremony called Nikah.
The couple enjoyed another party on the Cape Cod coast and cocktail hour on Saturday at the RFK house, named after the former US Attorney General.
They later hosted a reception in the JFK House, named for her great-uncle and former president John F Kennedy.
Sarah chose to have a bigger party on the family property because it holds a special place in her heart.
Sarah Kennedy, the daughter of businessman Chris Kennedy, initially tied the knot with Jam Sulahry, a current student at Harvard Business School on June 17, 2022 in a small Islamic ceremony called Nikah
The pair enjoyed another party on the Cape Cod coast and cocktail hour on Saturday at the RFK house, named after the former US Attorney General
“We chose to host our wedding weekend events at the Kennedy Compound and surrounding family homes because it is so special to us as a backdrop to our lives,” she shared PEOPLE.
“Here we have celebrated the great times and come together in heartbreaking times. It really feels like coming home.’
Their legal wedding took place last year on the same date her grandparents Robert and Ethel Kennedy got married.
Sarah and Sulahry first met as students at Boston College in Massachusetts. “(We) went to Boston College and met the night before freshman classes started,” she said.
The pair incorporated Sulahry’s Pakistani heritage into the celebrations, including a traditional Mehndi the night before
Pictured is Robert F. Kennedy waiting for a helicopter to take him to a 1961 LA charity dinner.
Sarah chose to have a bigger party at the Kennedy compound because it holds a special place in her heart
Students were taken to Target the day before school started to pick up last-minute items for their dorms.
“In Aisle 10, Jam saw (me) for the first time and asked, ‘Do you want to go shopping with me? she added.
Their first official date was in Boston’s North End, where they enjoyed some pastries and they “walked and talked the whole 11 miles back to campus.”
Much of the ceremony was used to honor Sarah’s family legacy and the couple also took their engagement photos on her great-uncle John’s sailboat.
The pair incorporated Sulahry’s Pakistani heritage into the celebrations, which included a traditional Mehndi the night before.
There were “choreographed Bollywood-style dances, henna tattoos, Pakistani desserts and traditional Pakistani and Indian music.”
The combination of cultures even crept into the color scheme of the event, with the couple opting for pink and orange “inspired by the beautiful scenery of the Cape Cod coast, Sulahry’s Pakistani culture, (our) love of the water and the natural gardens and landscape. of the Kennedy compound’.
Much of the ceremony was used to honor Sarah’s family legacy and the couple also took their engagement photos on her great-uncle John’s sailboat.
Christopher Kennedy and his wife Sheila pose for a photo in Chicago in 1997 with their three children Kate, Sarah and Christopher Jr.
“Our wedding is unique because we combine (my) Irish Catholic roots with Sulahry’s Muslim Pakistani roots to joyfully celebrate our love,” added Sarah.
Kennedy family heirlooms played an important role in the ceremony as the couple toasted their nuptials with “loving cups,” the champagne flutes that were present at her grandparents’ 1954 nuptials.
“Getting married is about remembering our love for each other and our commitment to each other for life,” Sarah said.
“We were best friends before dating and our relationship grew through good times and bad. Marriage is the next chapter in our love story and we couldn’t be happier.”
She and Sulahry are planning to honeymoon in Greece and Italy and are in the mood for “hiking and more adventure.”