Patrick Kennedy Weds Teacher

(NewsCore) - HYANNIS PORT, Mass. -- It seemed a slight return to Camelot. A Kennedy wedding and sailing and familiar faces at the family compound on Nantucket Sound as late Friday afternoon, on a picture-perfect Cape Cod summer day, Patrick Kennedy married Amy Petitgout.

It was an event billed as a small, intimate ceremony before family and friends, the Cape Cod Times reported.

Earlier in the day, Patrick Kennedy joined other Kennedy clan members and his prospective in-laws for a sail on his father's boat, Mya. He spoke fondly of late Massachusetts senator Edward M. Kennedy, who died of brain cancer in 2009.

"I feel like my dad's kind of orchestrating everything from up above, and he's doing a great job so far, and he's telling us get out on his sailboat and enjoy the ocean like he always did," the former Rhode Island congressman said on the way to the boat.

Hearts were touched by the sight of Patrick Kennedy and his brother, Edward M. Kennedy Jr., walking slowly together down the boardwalk at the Hyannis Port Yacht Club.

"I'm taking the groom out for a little sail this afternoon to get him all relaxed and ready for the ceremony later," Ted Jr. told a handful of media members gathered on the edge of Eugenia Fortes Beach.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his mother, Ethel, also joined the midday sail.

Patrick Kennedy, 43, tied the knot with Amy Petitgout, 32, a sixth-grade school teacher from New Jersey who has a three-year-old daughter, Harper, from a previous marriage.

The bride donned a light champagne-colored gown with a veil, and the groom wore a dark suit jacket paired with white dress slacks.

Before the ceremony, the former congressman spoke warmly of his bride.

"This is a day that's a beautiful day, not only in weather but just for my family," he said. "And I'm the luckiest guy. She's the best I could have ever imagined and I'm lucky to be able to share this day with her."

When asked whether he had cold feet about the wedding, Patrick Kennedy smiled. "Warm feet today," he quipped. "I gotta keep my shoes on so I don't get sunburned."

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