The latest:
Some 1,000 guests from Hollywood and sports — Steven Spielberg and Tom Brady among them — watched actor Adam Sandler officiate, and the couple announced a 26 million dollar donation to 20 American charities as purple billboards around the arena declared them married.
Details:
- The fashion: bride and groom both in Dior Haute Couture designed by Jonathan Anderson, framed by The Wall Street Journal as a commercial win for parent group LVMH.
- The ceremony: no bridesmaids or groomsmen — Austin Swift stood with his sister and Jason Kelce with his brother, per CNN.
- The giving: 26 million dollars split across 20 national charities, announced alongside the celebration.
Between the lines:
Writing in the Financial Times, Shahidha Bari argued that spectacular celebrity weddings endure because they offer the public a rare window into the most private of worlds.
What to watch:
The commercial afterglow for Dior and LVMH following the Journal’s framing of the wedding as a win for the group, and a second day of rolling global coverage of the ceremony’s details.
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