On the heels of Joseph P. Kennedy III’s marriage to a Harvard Law classmate, a look back at a few weddings in Massachusetts’s most prominent political family.

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  photograph by Victor Sizemore

  Joseph P. Kennedy III and Lauren Birchfield on December 1, 2012, in Corona del Mar, California
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  photograph by associated press

  Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg on July 19, 1986, in Centerville.
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  photograph by associated press

  Ethel Skakel and Robert F. Kennedy on June 17, 1950, in Greenwich, Connecticut.
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  Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald on October 7, 1914, in Boston
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  photograph by associated press

  Jacqueline Bouvier and John F. Kennedy on September 12, 1953, in Newport, Rhode Island
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  photograph by john rooney/associated press

  Eunice Mary Kennedy (pictured with her father, Joseph P. Kennedy) at a reception following her marriage to Robert Sargent Shriver Jr. on May 23, 1953, in New York City
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  photograph by DENIS REGGIE/associated press/copyright 1996

  John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette on September 21, 1996, in Cumberland Island, Georgia