Taylor Swift’s ex-boyfriend is planning a big 4th of July weekend wedding celebration.
Swift plans to rent New York City’s Madison Square Garden for her wedding to NFL player Travis Kelce over the July 4th weekend. Event officials claim it’s “bigger than the Met Gala” and promise to reveal the identities of A-list celebrity attendees.
Not to be outdone, Conor Kennedy, 31, is marrying Brazilian pop star Julia Marinho, 26, and the wedding will take place against the backdrop of his country’s most iconic landmark, the 100-foot-tall Christ the Redeemer statue above Rio de Janeiro.
“One of the first things I said[to Connor]was, ‘I love you, but I’m not getting married in Massachusetts,'” Marinho said in an interview with Brazil’s Gshow magazine earlier this month.
“I think Brazil is one of the best places to get married. We know how to get married, we give our heart and soul, and the party doesn’t end even at 10 p.m. This is something really important that I wanted to show people.”
The couple, who had already held a small civil ceremony in Los Angeles in March, will head to the bride’s hometown for a three-day extravaganza, including a lavish “blessing” dinner at the statue of Mount Corcovado, 2,300 feet above sea level, with breathtaking views of the city.
Marinho, known professionally as Julia Bae, said hundreds of guests from around the world are expected to flock to the seaside town.
The magazine said Mr. Conner, the son of Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and more than 150 people, including the Kennedy family and friends of the groom, were scheduled to attend the wedding in Rio. The Post revealed last year that President Trump was also invited.
Kennedy dated Swift for several months in 2012, when she was 22 and he was 18. The pop star even bought a seven-bedroom home near the Kennedy family estate in Hyannis Port for $4.8 million, which she later sold for a $1 million profit, according to reports.
Mr. Connor is the eldest son of RFK Jr. and his second wife, Mary Richardson, who died by suicide in May 2012. The couple have four children, and Mr. Kennedy has two other children from his first marriage to Emily Black.
Connor and Marinho, who have been together since 2022, told the publication that they wanted to memorialize Richardson with a shared tattoo.
“We’re both Catholic and his mother died when he was 17, so we thought it would be cool to do some kind of homage to Mary,” Marinho said. “So we got the Immaculate Heart of Mary tattooed, a symbol we knew we would never regret.”
In addition to the dinner at the Christ the Redeemer statue, the Roman Catholic wedding will take place at Rio’s Nossa Senhora do Carmo da Antiga Se, a 16th-century Rococo landmark in downtown Rio.
Afterwards, another dinner party is planned at a mansion in the city’s Botanical Gardens district.
“I come from the most beautiful city in the world, and this was my only chance to bring all my family and friends to Brazil and show them the best of Brazil,” Marinho said.
Like Connor, who works as a lawyer in California, Marinho’s family is also involved in politics. Her father is entrepreneur Paulo Marinho, a former Rio de Janeiro state senator.
Once a supporter of right-wing former President Jair Bolsonaro, he has switched allegiance to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the Brazilian Marxist leader who has been in power since 2023.
