Jackie Kennedy (née Jacqueline Lee Bouvier) married then-Senator John F. Kennedy on Sept. 12, 1953, in Newport, R.I.
The bride wore an ivory silk taffeta gown designed by Ann Lowe
More than 70 years later, the former first lady's wedding dress is still considered one of her most iconic looks
Jackie Kennedy's wedding dress is as iconic as the woman herself.
Born Jacqueline Lee Bouvier, she married then-Senator John F. Kennedy at St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Newport, R.I., on Sept. 12, 1953, one year after they met through a mutual friend, journalist Charles Bartlett.

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Jacqueline "Jackie" Bouvier wore an ivory silk taffeta gown for her 1953 wedding to future President John F. Kennedy.
Ann Lowe, an acclaimed Black couturier for America's elite families, made Jackie's wedding dress—but her work went largely unacknowledged for decades.
Ten days before the wedding, Lowe's studio flooded and she had to remake the dress from scratch.
Eight years before she would step into the role of first lady, Jackie Kennedy became a fashion icon on her wedding day: Her silk taffeta gown remains one of the most photographed bridal looks in history.
She and then-fiancé John F. Kennedy knew their September 1953 wedding would be a spectacle. JFK, then a junior senator, was a rising political star, while his bride-to-be came from a prominent New York family. Shortly after the announcement of their engagement in June 1953, the couple jointly covered Life magazine with the headline, "Senator Kennedy Goes A-Courting"—a sign of their star power which would only grow during JFK's political ascent.

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Jackie Kennedy has done many notable things in her life, including attending some of the celebrations during Queen Elizabeth's coronation. Back in the '50s, when Kennedy was known as Jacqueline Bouvier, she was a young reporter working in London. She ended up crashing one of the celebratory ****** for the Queen, spending the evening alongside some of the era's most notorious figures.
Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in 1952 (PA Images)
As reported by InStyle, Caroline Hallemann explained that, at the time, Jackie worked as a photographer-reporter for The Washington Times-Herald and was covering the coronation. While she didn't attend the coronation itself, she attended a ball hosted by the American Socialite Perle Mesta. She secured access by telling Mesta that she was the daughter of some of his old friends in America.
The tale is explored in her book, "The Kennedys and the Windsors: The Story of Two Dynasties, One Born, One Made," which claims that she attended the party alongside figures like Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, and Prince Jean of Luxembourg.
John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier cutting their wedding cake after their marriage in Newport, Rhode Island (Bettmann Archive)

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Jackie Kennedy, born Jacqueline Bouvier, spent the summer of 1953 in London for Queen Elizabeth's coronation.
The young journalist and future first lady networked her way into the season's biggest parties, attended by Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart.
She didn't meet Elizabeth until June 1961, at which time she was allegedly "disappointed" by Buckingham Palace and criticized the queen's hairstyle.
Years before she was first lady, Jackie Kennedy went to London for Queen Elizabeth's coronation.
Then going by Jacqueline Bouvier—having not yet received a proposal from future husband John F. Kennedy—Jackie was an intrepid photographer-reporter for The Washington Times-Herald. She arrived in Europe with friend Aileen Bowdoin in May 1953, ready to chase down stories and send back glittering reports of society parties.

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