Back in June 2018, Jennifer Lawrence was spotted hanging out with a mysterious man that the internet eventually determined to be New York City-based art gallerist Cooke Maroney. The couple soon married during a lavish October weekend in Rhode Island in 2019, though prior to the engagement they’d kept the relationship mostly out of the public eye.
So who, exactly, is Maroney, and how did an art gallery director catch the eye of one of Hollywood’s biggest stars? Below, a quick primer on Maroney and Lawrence’s relationship so far and their marriage.
Lawrence admitted that her wedding with Maroney was “awful” because of the pressure they felt hosting.
At the 2024 Golden Globes on January 7, Lawrence opened up about her wedding to Maroney, calling the experience of being a bride “awful.”
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“It’s so stressful. You’re not having fun. You’re just like, ‘Is that person having fun?’” she started. “I’ll never forget—I was freaking out about the guests being cold, and all of my friends were lying. They’re like, ‘Nobody’s cold, nobody’s cold, everything’s fine, everything’s fine.’ My mom was like, ‘It’s freezing out there. Your grandmother almost died.’”
The No Hard Feelings actress also revealed that she told Killers of the Flower Moon actor Robert De Niro to leave her rehearsal dinner:
“I looked over, and I saw Bob, who doesn’t know anybody, and he’s kind of wandering around, and I immediately was like, ‘No, this isn’t what he wants to be doing. I don’t want him here.’ So I went over and whispered, I was like, ‘Go home,’ and he was nice—he talked to my parents and was polite—but I was like, ‘Go.’
The couple welcomed their first child in February 2022.
TMZ reported on February 24 that Maroney and Lawrence welcomed their first baby together in the Los Angeles area. The couple did not confirm the news themselves, and no details have come out yet about the baby’s birth date, name, or gender.
Lawrence later told Vogue in September 2022 that the two had a baby boy named Cy “after the postwar American painter Cy Twombly, one of Maroney’s favorite artists,” Vogue wrote.
In September 2021, People confirmed that Lawrence was pregnant with her first child. She was spotted walking through New York City in floral overalls and a leather bag, showing off her growing baby bump.
Maroney and Lawrence had an October 2019 wedding in Rhode Island.
TMZ first reported that the low-key pair would wed in Rhode Island on Saturday, October 19. News of the nuptials came about a month after Maroney and Lawrence were spotted at a New York City marriage bureau, obtaining a license to wed.
In June of that year, the Oscar winner opened up on Catt Sadler’s NAKED With Catt Sandler podcast about wedding planning—and when she knew Maroney was the one.
“I definitely wasn’t at a place where I was like, ‘I’m ready to get married,’” she recalled. “I just met Cooke and I wanted to marry him. We wanted to marry each other. We wanted to commit fully. He’s my best friend so I want to legally bind him to me forever. And fortunately the paperwork exists for such a thing. It’s the greatest. You find your favorite person in the planet and you’re like you can’t leave. So I wanted to take that offer.”
It turns out TMZ was right. The two tied the knot at the Belcourt estate in Newport, Rhode Island, in front of an A-list guest list including Amy Schumer, Emma Stone, Bradley Cooper, Ashley Olsen, Adele, Kris Jenner, Sienna Miller, and Cameron Diaz.
Ahead of the wedding, the couple hosted an engagement party in New York City.
Lawrence and Maroney were photographed out in early May 2019, en route to the engagement party they threw for their family and friends in New York City. The appearance came after People reported in April that the couple was seen looking at venues in the city, possibly for that party or their actual wedding ceremony. A source said then that J.Law is a “family girl…I would be surprised if the wedding were not a fairly extensive family affair.”
Page Six got more details on the engagement party: It was held at the River Café in Brooklyn, and the couple rented out the entire restaurant for the party. “It was fabulous!” an insider told the outlet. “There were tables set up everywhere—the dining room, the terrace room and the outdoor patio.” Lawrence’s good friend Emma Stone was among the guests, and Page Six reported that food included butlered hors d’oeuvres and Mandarin duck.
