Inside Conor Kennedy and Giulia Be’s Three-Day Wedding Celebration in Rio de Janeiro

Reported by Vogue.

A Brazilian pop star, a Kennedy heir, and a three-day celebration that turned Rio de Janeiro into the most glamorous wedding venue on Earth — this is how you do it.

Giulia Be and Conor Kennedy — attorney, great-nephew of JFK — met the way so many great love stories start now: Instagram follows, DMs, then months of what the couple called their "love letters," long WhatsApp exchanges while she was filming a Netflix movie in Brazil and he was stateside finishing law school. By the time they finally met in person in California in 2022, Giulia joked it was either a catfish situation or marriage. He proposed two years later in their not-yet-moved-into Los Angeles home, candles everywhere, Elton John's "Your Song" playing, the ring already out before she'd fully processed what was happening. She said yes before he finished the question. According to Vogue, his laptop caught the whole thing after she accidentally bypassed the cameras he'd set up.

The Wardrobe Was Its Own International Event

For a bride who dropped a trilingual album, a single-designer wedding would have been beside the point. Giulia's looks spanned Spain, Brazil, the United States, and the United Kingdom — each one calibrated to its moment. The welcome party called for a custom YolanCris cape embroidered with the couple's matching tattoo and Leo constellation, followed by a PatBo look from longtime friend Patricia Bonaldi ("It was important to me to wear Brazilian fashion at my own wedding"). The blessing at Christ the Redeemer — yes, inside the actual statue, overlooking the city — was Calvin Klein: a minimalist silhouette, sheer opera-length gloves, and a quiet nod to Carolyn Bessette Kennedy's understated cool. For the ceremony itself, Giulia DMed Harris Reed on a whim; he replied in ten minutes. Over eight months and five or six London trips, they built a high-necked, long-sleeved gown in French Solstiss lace, informed by '70s romanticism and — her words — a little bit of Padmé from Star Wars. Conor, meanwhile, wore suits by Giulia's father's longtime tailor, Vasco Vasconcellos. "My dad's love language is taking someone to the tailor," she said. "It was one of the first things he did when he met Conor."

The three-day celebration was structured like a love letter to Rio itself: a samba school welcome party featuring Unidos de Vila Isabel, a beach volleyball tournament in Ipanema (a Brazilian riff on the Kennedy family's competitive sports tradition), vows at the 18th-century cathedral of Nossa Senhora do Carmo da Antiga Sé, and a reception at Instituto Brando Barbosa with a photo booth, a tarot reader, and a dance floor that went hard. Giulia walked the aisle to "Nessun Dorma" — Puccini, her favorite — on her father's arm. Bridesmaids wore their own versions of navy and dark green. Guests eventually changed into personalized flip-flops, courtesy of Brazilian accessories brand Luiza Barcelos.

When fashion, family, and a city worth celebrating all align, you don't just throw a wedding — you throw a statement.

Read the original at Vogue.