`Very Happy' Mrs. Kennedy and Onassis Married
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2,448 C 1988 The New York Times Company. -NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1968- ,associated Press MR. AND MRS. ARISTOTLE SOCRATES ONASSIS leaving chapel on island of Skorpios after ceremony yesterday. About 25 relatives and friends attended the wedding of the former Mrs. John F. Kennedy and Greek millionaire. `Very Happy' Mrs. Kennedy and Onassis Married By ALVIN SHUSTER 10, and John, 7, flanked the designed by the Italian cou- St. Katiiikiarea in downtown Speots2 to The New York Mimes couple, holding two slim turier Valentino, a current Athens. The church is the ATHENS, Oct. 20 Jac- white candies. international favorite. chapel of Athens University. queline Kennedy became Mrs. Rain was falling outside— As she came to the church, The priest, who has a black Aristotle Socrates Onassis to- Greeks believe this is good she appeared bright-faced in beard and wore a gold robe, day in a candle-lit wedding luck on a wedding day—as the rain. "We are very told reporters that he first ceremony in a tiny chapel the couple walked around happy," she said. met Mr. Onassis in 1964 among the cypress trees on the altar three times in the Mr. Onassis wore a double- while he was serving as the island of Skorpios. dance of Isaiah, the tradi- breasted blue suit and a red deacon under Archbishop la- The 39-year-old widow of tional closing rite of the tie. kayos, the Greek Orthodcnt President Kennedy, two Greek Orthodox service. "Do Thou now, Master, Archbishop of North and inches taller than her new The bride, long on the send down Thine hand from South America. husband, stood beside the 62- best-dressed lists, wore a Thy holy dwelling place and About 25 persons —rela- year-old multimillionaire beige chiffon two-piece dress unite Thy servants, Aristotle tives and friends only— during a 30-minute cere- with a pleated skirt just and Jacqueline, for by Thee crowded into the tiny, white- mony and gazed intently at below the knee. In her hair woman is united to man," washed chapel, which was the officiating Greek Ortho- was a ribbon of the same said the 32-year'-old prelate, decorated with small gar- dox prelate. color. Her low-heeled shoes the Right Rev. Polyearpos Her two children, Caroline, also matched. The dress was Athanassiou of the Church of Continued on Page 51, Column 1 Athina Mary Livanos, a mem- Continued From Page 1, Col. 5 ber of another wealthy Greek List of Guests family and now the Marchion- denia trees. Some guests had ess of -Blandford, in Alabama Spools.' to The New Yak Mimes to stand along the walls of in 1960. The divorce was sub- ATHENS, Oct. 20—Following, the 75-year-old chapel. sequetitly approved by an eccle- as distributed by the staff of Among the guests were Mr. siastical court of the Orthodox Aristotle S. Onassis, is a list of and Mrs. Hugh D. Auchincloss, Church in New York. the guests at his wedding A church spokesman here to the bride's mother and step- said the only condition attached Mrs. Kennedy: father; Prince and Princess to the marriage today was a THE BRIDE'S RELATIVES Stanisfas Radziwill, her 'broth- pledge that any future children John F. Kennedy Jr. and Caroline er-in-law and sister, and their would be raised in the Ortho- Kennedy, her children. dox faith. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh D. Auchin- two children, and two sisters doss, her stepfather and mother; of President Kennedy, Mrs. Mr. Onassis, a stocky, gray- haired man who likes to wear Mrs. Stephen Smith and Mrs. Stephen Smith and Mrs. Patricia Patricia Lawford, sisters of the sunglasses, is a legend in late President, and Prince and Lawford. Greece because of his rise from Princess Stanislas Radziwill, the Also there were Mr. Onassis' poverty to his position as one bride's brother-in-law and sister, two children by his first wife of the world's richest men, his and their two children; Anthony —Alexander, 20 years old, and flare for grand living, his pub- and Christina. Christina, 18. His sister, Mrs. licized romances, and his ability THE BRIDEGROOM'S RELATIVES Artemis Garofalides, served as to befriend famous people. He AND FRIENDS the sponsor, the equivalent of also draws attention because of Alexander and Christina Onassis, attendant. his occasional flings in Athens children of his first marriage. The couple exchanged rings night clubs, where he is known Mrs. Artemis Garofalides, his sis- to have smashed pottery to the ter, who served as sponsor. during the ceremony, -which Mr. and Mrs. Yerasimos Patroni- was conducted mostly in Greek. music of the bouzouki. colous, his half-sister, and her Then came the crowning of the He was born in Smyrna, now husband. couple with white wreaths Izmir, the son of a well-to-do Mr. and Mrs. Panos Drakos, his connected by a white ribbon. Greek tobacco merchant. He niece and her husband. Mrs. Garofalides exchanged the and his family fled the city in Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Kokkims, wreaths three times over their Asia Minor after the Turks cap- friends and business associates heads. tured it in 1922 and went to from Monte Carlo. Greece. The young Onassis left, Mr. and Mrs. Joannis Georgakis, After ' the ceremony, the Europe at the age of 16 and managing director of Olympic couple emerged in a driving Airways. rain with Mrs. Onassis smiling went to Argentina, arriving and Mr. Onassis saying to a re- there with about $100. porter, "I feel very well, my Mystery About His Age New York immediately after the war. She is a daughter of boy." It was at this time that the the late Stavros Livanos, then Caroline With Couple mystery of Mr. Onassis' age de- veloped. He later said that he the richest Greek in shipping. They climbed into a small had added six years to his She was 17 years old, more yellow golf car. With Caroline rightful age in order to qualify than 20 years his junior. sitting on her mother's knee, for a job he wanted in Argen- He ran into difficulties with they drove off for the Onassis tina. While he gives his age yacht, the Christina. John Jr. now as 62, those who have seen the United States authorities came along later. his passport say it lists him when he purchased some sur- At the yacht, on which the as 68. plus naval vessels from the couple will take their wedding After working as a telephone Government in 1954. Only trip,, champagne began to flow operator and at other minor American corporations were in the ship's big dining room and jobs, he went into the export- eligible to buy •the ship, and bar, which is equipped with import business. By the time he the United States moved against stools covered with whaleskin. was in his mid-twenties, he had him because he had provided The couple were intent on raised enough money to buy the financing for an American keeping the ceremony as pri- some freighters. He built his corporation. He was arrested, vate as possible. Motorboats of first tanker before World War indicted and released on bail. the Greek Coast Guard patrolled II, and at its end, he decided to Finally, after years of nego- the Ionian Sea and Mr. Onas- go into the tanker business in sis own security men covered tiations, he settled the case a bieway. with the Government and paid) the island. He married his first wife in $7-million. Press °overage was limited to His personal wealth, mean- a small group of cameramen while, was rising by the day. and reporters, who were kept While all Greeks might -not outside the church. They briefed like the way he does business, their colleagues on their return they agree that he has the to Athens tonight, under a pool nerve and gambling spirit char- arrangement. The films were acteristic of tycoons. The esti- also shared. mates vary, but his total The reporters on the island were kept outside the chapel by wealth, which includes control a United States Secret Service of some 30 companies, is said agent, who wore a "PT 109" to be somewhere around $500- tiepin, which President Ken- million. He owns a merchant nedy often gave to friends and fleet larger than that of most associates. countries. Even after the Orthodox It was the beginning of a ceremony, the question of Mrs. new life for the former Jacque- Onassis' future relations with line Lee Bouvier, whose first the Roman Catholic Church re- husband, President John F. mains unanswered. Kennedy, was assassinated ir• Contacts Reported Rumors circulated in Athens today of contacts between Mrs. Onassis and the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church, which forbids its members to marry divorced persons. Under extraordinary circumstances, the Roman Rota, -the church's supreme marriage court, can grant ein annulment, declaring that there never was a valid marriage, Such a decision, for example, was granted to Mrs. Onassis' sister. Her earlier marriage, to Michael Canfield, was annulled. Mr. Onassis was divorced by Associated Press LEAVING FOR RECEPTION: Mr. and Mrs.- Onassis with Caroline Kennedy in the golf cart they drove to the wed. ding reception aboard the Christina, the Onassis yacht. The reception was limited to close friends and relatives. Ass:cla;'d Pr RAIN A SIGN OF GOOD LUCK Umbrella shields Mr. and Mrs. Aristotle S. Onassis and Caroline Kennedy as they left chapel. Greeks hold that rain on wedding day is good luck. bride's mother, last Thursday, came as a complete surprise.