Very rare and hard-to-find Kennedy-Bouvier wedding invitation, 4.25 x 5.75, reading, in full: "Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Dudley Auchincloss request the honor of your presence at the marriage of Mrs. Auchincloss' daughter Jacqueline Lee Bouvier to the Honorable John Fitzgerald Kennedy, United States Senate, on Saturday, the twelfth of September at eleven o'clock, Saint Mary's Church, Spring Street, Newport, Rhode Island." Accompanied by an invitation to a garden party hosted by Mrs. And Mrs. Robert Francis Kennedy and the Women’s Council of St. John’s Catholic Church at Kennedy’s Home, 'Hickory Hill,' in McLean, VA. Hickory Hill was the home of Senator John F. Kennedy, who later sold it to Bobby Kennedy.
The JFK wedding invitation belonged to Mary De Limur (1929-2018), a Parisian-born Washington D.C. socialite, and daughter of Count and Countess Andre de Limur, a French Army WWI pilot and Washington diplomat. A friend of Jackie Kennedy, Mary introduced Jackie to John Husted, Jr., in 1951. Jackie and Husted were briefly engaged to be married before she broke it off, having fallen for JFK. The invitation, removed from Mary’s scrapbook, has mounting traces on the reverse, and is discolored at the top from laying against a newspaper clipping.
