Editor’s note: This story first appeared in New York’s issue of October 7, 1996. We’re republishing it to coincide with the release of FX’s television series Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette.
Among the disparate pieces of information released by Senator Edward Kennedy’s office last week, there were delicious details of tailoring (the bride’s veil was silk tulle “with a hand-rolled edge”), ornithology (Cumberland Island, where the wedding took place, is home to “over three hundred species of birds”), and nomenclature (“Gogo” Ferguson, the family…