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Brian Fitzpatrick ties the knot with Fox News’ Jacqui Heinrich in NYC wedding

U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick and Fox News White House Correspondent Jacqui Heinrich were married at Saint Patrick's Cathedral and celebrated on a yacht in New York City.

Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R., Pa.) speaking reporters outside the Capitol on June 3. (Haiyun Jiang / New York Times)
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R., Pa.) speaking reporters outside the Capitol on June 3. (Haiyun Jiang / New York Times)Read moreHAIYUN JIANG / New York Times

U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R., Pa.), who represents Bucks County, and Fox News senior White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich got married Saturday in New York City.

The wedding was attended by high-profile figures in politics and media and featured a nighttime cruise around the Statue of Liberty.

The celebrations for the newlyweds and their 302 guests included a ceremony at St. Patrick’s Cathedral and a reception on a yacht called Horizon’s Edge, with a 10-piece brass band and the toasts of former GOP House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and former Sen. Joe Manchin (I., W. Va.), People magazine reported.

The nuptials of Fitzpatrick, 52, and Heinrich, 37, come almost a year after their engagement and amid the Republican’s high-stakes reelection campaign to represent Pennsylvania’s 1st Congressional District against Democratic challenger Bob Harvie.

Fitzpatrick and Heinrich said they chose New York for their wedding because of its significance in jumpstarting their respective careers as an FBI agent and a network news reporter and its connecion to their families’ immigration journey, People reported. It was also a central meeting point for the couple’s families from New England and Pennsylvania.

The reception featured other nods to family — Heinrich’s parents got married on a chartered cruise and the couple’s cake-cutting song was an “Irish tune,” People reported, written by Fitzpatrick’s great-uncle, an NYPD officer who was killed in the line of duty, according to People.

Guests took to social media to congratulate the newlyweds including Heinrich’s Fox News colleagues, U.S. Rep. Don Bacon (R., Neb.), and President Donald Trump’s former Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro was invited to the wedding, but the Democrat was unable to attend.

Fitzpatrick and Heinrich met in Washington when Heinrich was a correspondent on Capitol Hill. After she switched beats to cover the White House, Fitzpatrick asked her on a date to the Kennedy Center Honors.

Heinrich’s LinkedIn page shows she began working as Fox News’ White House correspondent in May 2021 during former President Joe Biden’s term.

They are one of the most high-profile couples on Capitol Hill, sometimes earning the ire of Trump.

Last month, after Fitzpatrick won his GOP primary unopposed, Trump threatened Fitzpatrick, without saying his name, when asked a question by Heinrich, who is vice president of the White House Correspondents Association.

“Her husband votes against me all the time. Can you imagine? I don’t know what’s with him,” Trump said. “You better ask what’s with him. She’s married to a certain congressman. He likes voting against Trump, You know what happens with that? It doesn’t work out well.”

    Fallon Roth
    I’m the suburban politics reporter, covering government, policy, and other political happenings in Philadelphia's four collar counties — Bucks, Montgomery, Delaware, and Chester.