10. Elizabeth Taylor and Larry Fortensky – $2.5 Million
Via destinationluxury.com
The wedding of
Elizabeth and Larry in 1991 was an elaborate gathering that took place at
Michael Jackson‘s Neverland Ranch and had 160 guests. It was a major celebrity gathering, including names like;
Eddie Murphy, Nancy Reagan,
Quincy Jones,
Macaulay Culkin and
Liza Minnelli
which brought paparazzi hovering in helicopters above the ranch.
Jackson took the role as father of the bride. Taylor’s wedding dress was
a gift from Valentino and was worth $25,000. The couple’s marriage
lasted five years.
9. Paul McCartney and Heather Mills – $3 Million
McCartney and
Mills
refused millions of dollars from dozens of tabloids that tried to get
access to the couple’s wedding day. The two married in 2002 and had a
stunning Indian-styled wedding in Ireland at Castle Leslie in the
village of Glaslough. The couple celebrated with their guests after the
ceremony with a reception that featured a vegetarian meal, dancers,
fireworks and flowers that cost $145,000 and rented the castle for
$40,000.
Ringo,
George and Paul hit the stage to sing a song McCartney wrote called “Heather.”
8. Liza Minnelli and David Gest – $3.5 Million
Liza and
David
married in 2002 and had a lavish wedding as only one could imagine the
flamboyant star would have. Their wedding consisted of a large amount of
guests, 850 to be exact, and was held at the Regent Hotel in New York.
Some of the celebrities on the guest list were
Diana Ross,
Donny Osmond, and
Mia Farrow. Not to mention the starlet was accompanied down the aisle by the best man
Michael Jackson and matron of honor
Elizabeth Taylor. Unfortunately, Liza and David forever were anything but as their marriage only lasted 16 months.
7. Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky – $5 Million
The former First Daughter
Chelsea
and husband Marc married in 2010 and celebrated their special day with
400 close friends and family in a small town in upstate New York called
Rhinebeck. The bride wore a dress made by
Vera Wang, who was also a guest,
Bill and
Hillary
wore Oscar de la Renta. Although their guest list was fairly large,
there were a small amount of celebrities, but a large number of
congressmen and congresswomen. Despite rumors that the couple were
seeking a divorce in 2012, Chelsea and Marc are still happily married.
6. Wayne Rooney and Coleen McLoughlin – $8 Million
Manchester United footballer
Rooney
married his high school sweetheart in 2008. The ceremony was an
intimate, small wedding with just 8 guests, plus a handful of reporters
from a magazine that offered the couple $2.5 million to take their
wedding photos. The ceremony was broken up into two stages; the first
part of the celebration took place in a 330-year-old villa beneath a
Louis XVI chandelier and continued in the Riviera resort of Santa
Margherita Ligure at a 17th century Villa. Family members were flown in
on a private jet and the bride traveled to the ceremony by a luxury
yacht.
5. Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries – $10 Million
Kardashian married
Humphries
in 2011 in an over the top ceremony that every major magazine and
entertainment outlet wanted to cover. The ceremony cost an estimated $10
million, but the couple didn’t pay for much of the bill since E! News
covered most of the bill in an agreement that they had the rights to air
the wedding, which had a record breaking 10 million viewers tuning in.
The couple banked nearly $18 million for selling the rights to their
wedding photo’s. Although they didn’t pay much themselves for their
wedding, their individual lawyer fees for their divorce wasn’t covered
by anybody. The couple had one of the shortest celebrity marriages ever,
lasting a total of 72 days.
4. Prince William and Kate Middleton – $34 Million
The royal wedding of
Prince William and
Kate Middleton
was probably the biggest event in the last decade. The couple tied the
knot in 2011 and took place at none other than the historic Westminster
Abby. The televised ceremony had an estimate of 2 billion people
watching from all over the world. There were a total of three guest
lists; the first list had 1,900 people invited to the ceremony, the
second list had approximately 600 people invited to the luncheon at
Buckingham’s Palace and the third list consisted of 300 to attend a
dinner hosted by the Prince of Whales.
3. Lady Diana and Prince Charles – $48 Million
Lady Diana and
Prince Charles
wed in 1981 and theirs was one of the most highly anticipated royal
weddings ever. It was dubbed “the wedding of the century” and was
watched globally by an estimated 750 million viewers. The ceremony took
place at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London and had 3,500 guests. 2 million
people lined up along the streets of London to catch a glimpse of Lady
Diana as she traveled in a glass coach to the cathedral. The reception
only had 120 guests at Buckingham Palace following the ceremony. The
relationship of Lady Diana and Prince Charles was often in the tabloids
during the course of their marriage. Their marriage lasted 11 years;
they separated in 1992 and divorced in 1996.
2. Vanisha Mittal and Amit Bhatia – $60 Million
Vanisha and Amit married in 2004. Their ceremony had festivities that
lasted a total of six days at a 16th-century chateau, Palace of
Versailles, and a temporary wooden castle. The family flew 1,000 guests
from all over the world by private jet to France for the event. The
invitations alone were elaborate in the sense that they were mailed in
silver boxes and included plane tickets and rooms at a five-star hotel
in Paris. Bombonieres consisted of gift bags filled with jewels. The
dinner was prepared by chefs flown in from India and one of the
highlights of the festivities was at the reception where a performance
by singer
Kylie Minogue took place while fireworks went off at the Eiffel Tower.
1. Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Princess Salama – $100 Million
Sheik Mohammed and Princess Salama married in 1981 and had one of the
most expensive and extravagant weddings of all time. The ceremony
wasn’t your typical wedding celebration as it actually lasted a total
of seven days, and not only that, but a stadium that seated 20,000 was
built for the wedding. The newly married couple rode on horseback
throughout all of the towns that are located within the Emirates, and
handed out food and gifts to the people of their country. The groom
bought 20 camels decorated with luxurious jewels for the wedding and
they delivered gifts for his beautiful bride.
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