Robert F. Kennedy’s granddaughter celebrated her second wedding at the historic family compound in a ceremony filled with Kennedy heirlooms.
Sarah Kennedy, the daughter of businessman Chris Kennedy, first tied the knot with Jam Sulahry, a Harvard Business School student, on June 17, 2022, in a small Islamic ceremony called the Nikah.
The couple enjoyed another celebration on the Cape Cod shoreline on Saturday and a cocktail hour at RFK House, named for the former US Attorney General.
They later hosted a reception at JFK House, named after their great-uncle and former President, John F. Kennedy.
Sarah has decided to have a larger celebration on the family compound because it is close to her heart.
Sarah Kennedy, the daughter of businessman Chris Kennedy, first tied the knot with Jam Sulahry, a current student at Harvard Business School, on June 17, 2022, in a small Islamic ceremony called the Nikah
The couple enjoyed another celebration on the Cape Cod shoreline on Saturday and a cocktail hour at RFK House, named for the former US Attorney General
“We chose to host our wedding weekend events at the Kennedy Compound and the surrounding family homes because it is special to us as the setting for our lives,” she told PEOPLE.
“This is where we’ve celebrated the great times and come together in heartbreaking times. It really does feel like coming home.”
Their legal marriage last year took place on the same day that their grandparents, Robert and Ethel Kennedy, were married.
Sarah and Sulahry first met as undergraduates at Boston College in Massachusetts. ‘[We] “I went to Boston College and met the night before freshman classes started,” she said.
The couple infused Sulahry’s Pakistani heritage into the celebrations, which included a traditional mehndi the night before
Robert F. Kennedy waits for a helicopter to take him to a benefit dinner in Los Angeles in 1961
Sarah chose to have a bigger celebration 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 final supplies for their dormitories.
“In aisle 10, Jam took a look [me] for the first time and asked, “Do you want to shop with me?” she added.
Their first official date was in Boston’s North End, where they enjoyed some pastries and “walked and talked the entire 11 miles back to campus.”
Much of the ceremony served to honor Sarah’s family legacy, and the couple also took their engagement photos on her great-uncle John’s sailboat.
The couple infused Sulahry’s Pakistani heritage into the celebrations, which included a traditional mehndi the night before.
There were “Bollywood-style choreographed dances, henna tattoos, Pakistani desserts and traditional Pakistani and Indian music”.
The combination of cultures even crept into the event’s color scheme, with the couple opting for pink and orange “inspired by the beautiful surroundings of the Cape Cod coast, the Pakistani culture of Sulahry, [our] Love for the water and for the natural gardens and scenery of the Kennedy Compound”.
Much of the ceremony served 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,” Sarah added.
Kennedy family heirlooms featured prominently at the ceremony as the couple toasted their marriage with “love cups.” These were champagne glasses that were present at her grandparents’ wedding in 1954.
“Marriage is about a lifetime memorial of our love and commitment to each other,” Sarah said.
“We were best friends before we met and have grown our relationship 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 spend their honeymoon in Greece and Italy and are looking forward to “hiking and more adventures”.