“It wasn’t really apparent,” recalls JFK Jr.’s childhood friend Sasha Chermayeff of the drama depicted on the FX series.

JFK Jr.’s friend sets the record straight on wedding day ‘tensions’ between Carolyn Bessette and Caroline Kennedy on Love Story

"It wasn't really apparent," recalls JFK Jr.'s childhood friend Sasha Chermayeff of the drama depicted on the FX series.

By Kathleen Perricone

March 6, 2026 3:44 p.m. ET

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Carolyn Bessette, John F. Kennedy Jr., Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, and Edwin Schlossberg in 1998. Credit:

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Ryan Murphy’s *Love Story* is once again being slammed as a fictitious fairy tale.

Episode 6 this week gave viewers a front-row seat to John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette’s top-secret 1996 wedding, which took place on Cumberland Island, a secluded area off the coast of Georgia. But it was the behind-the-scenes drama between the bride and her matron of honor that nearly stole the show — or so the FX series makes it seem.

Carolyn Bessette (Sarah Pidgeon) weds John F. Kennedy Jr. (Paul Anthony Kelly) on 'Love Story'.

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In a pre-wedding scene, the newly engaged couple discuss their plans for the big day with JFK Jr.'s (Paul Anthony Kelly) sister Caroline Kennedy (Grace Gummer) and her husband Edwin Schlossberg (Ben Shenkman). Carolyn (Sarah Pidgeon) insists she wants to keep it small and avoid a “Kennedy spectacle,” to which her future sister-in-law grouses that she "hasn’t been included in any decisions."

Later in the March 5 episode, on the day of the wedding, Carolyn is getting her hair and makeup done with her mother Ann and two sisters Lauren and Lisa, while a disconnected Caroline reads a book in the corner.

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Sasha Chermayeff, JFK Jr.’s childhood friend, was one of the lucky 40 people invited to the intimate ceremony and insists any agitation between the in-laws went unnoticed by wedding guests.

"People knew that there was some tensions between them as the two couples," Chermayeff tells Page Six, referring to JFK Jr. and Carolyn, and Caroline and Edwin. "That was something that people did know, but it wasn't really apparent at the wedding."

In fact, adds Chermayeff, everyone at the wedding was "on their best behavior" and "happy" for the newlyweds. "At that point, there wasn't a feeling of tension at all. It was just not there."

Caroline Kennedy (Grace Gummer) and Carolyn Bessette (Sarah Pidgeon) on 'Love Story'.

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The wedding day tension is just one of the many things *Love Story *dramatized about the couple's nuptials.

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On screen, Carolyn informs her sister Lauren (Sydney Lemmon) that the maid of honor title is going to Caroline. However, as PEOPLE reports, Lauren was indeed the bride's principal bridesmaid, along with Caroline as matron of honor.

These artistic liberties are one of the many reasons Chermayeff says she will not watch the FX series, she tells Page Six. "The way I look at it, [*Love Story*] is just being made by a group of people that never met them, didn’t know them, and are just making it up as they go along."

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