10 Most Expensive Weddings in the World 【Academy of High Society】

Every woman fantasizes about wearing a white gown and marries her prince one day. A wedding means a new beginning of life and a new family with the one you love. The wedding day is the most beautiful day of a woman's life. In order to look perfect, women try on tens or hundreds of wedding dresses to find the best one. Before the wedding, couples find venues, try different designs for invitations, cater their guests, arrange flowers and photographers, book honeymoon flights and hotels, and much more. The bigger and grander the wedding ceremony is, the more planning will be needed, and the more money will be spent. For rich people in high society, they do not hesitate to spend big money on the most memorable day of their lives. Their wedding cost could be millions or tens of millions to make their dream wedding come true. Today we are going to look at the top 10 most expensive weddings in the world historically.

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Number Ten, Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel. Justin Timberlake, occasionally known as JT, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor. He won two Grammy Awards for his albums. He produced many famous songs like "Sexyback" and "My Love." Timberlake has sold over 32 million albums and 56 million singles globally throughout his career. Being one of the world's best-selling music artists and celebrities, Timberlake has a net worth of 250 million dollars. He married Jessica Biel, an American actress, and model with a net worth of 18 million dollars. Their wedding cost 6.5 million dollars in 2012. They got married at the white-stone, castle-like Borgo Egnazia resort in Italian southern countryside Puglia. The 63-room, 28-villa luxury hotel offered a high level of security and privacy. About 100 guests were invited to spend the won
derful week. Surprisingly, the bride Jessica opted out of wearing a traditional white wedding dress on her big day. Instead, Jessica Biel’s wedding dress was an untraditional pink custom Giambattista Valli Haute Couture dress when she walked down the aisle. The dress was petal-pink and floating -on-air. The dress costs around 100,000 dollars. Giambattista Valli created the veil and the costume for the bride and groom's mom. The groom wore a custom Tom Ford tuxedo. The groomsmen, the bride and groom’s fathers also wore Tom Ford. The wedding celebrated for the whole week with celebrities like Jimmy Fallon, Andy Samberg, and Beverley Mitchell.

Number Nine, Aleksey Shapovalov and Ksenia Tsaritsina. Russian oligarch and billionaire Aleksey Shapovalov proposed to model Ksenia Tsaritsina, who was his two children's mother and being his girlfriend for five years. The wedding took place in 2017 at the prestigious Barvikha Luxury Village hotel in Rublekva, Moscow. The hotel is a popular venue among wealthy Russians for weddings and music concerts by Elton John. The bride received
an 8 million dollar 70- carat engagement ring and wore two incredible designed wedding dresses. One dress had an off-the-shoulder sweetheart neckline and was adorned with lace flowers and lots of sparkles. Another dress is a floaty off- white lace dress with a matching veil. The eight-tire floating wedding cake was full of pearls, pink and white flowers. The wedding’s dress code was black, white, and red. The opulent affair was hosted by entertainers Andrei Razygraev and Ekaterina Barnabas. Leningrad group, which is a famous Russian rock band from Saint Petersburg, was invited to perform.

Number Eight, Wayne Rooney and Coleen McLoughlin. Wayne Rooney is a professional football player at Manchester United and a record goalscorer for England national team. His net worth is 170 million dollars. His bride, Coleen McLoughlin, is an English author and television personality with 18 million dollars net worth. They got married at the Abbey of Cervara near Genoa, Italy, in 2008. The luxury wedding costs 8 million dollars. The Irish boyband Westlife was invited to perform for 70,000 dollars. Sixty-four guests of Rooney were invited to fly in 5 private jets to the wedding to celebrate. Even though the wedding is lavish, the couple had no problem making half of the money back by giving the exclusive rights of their wedding photos to a magazine for 4.2 million dollars.

 

Number Seven, Lolita Osmanova and Gaspar Avdolyan. The 10 million dollar wedding is for the daughter of energy tycoon Eldar Osmanav and the son of telecoms mogul Albert Avdolyan in Russia. The couple exchanged vows at Dolby Theatre, Los Angeles, in 2017, where the Oscar was held. The wedding decoration was more lavish than the Academy Awards. The gold aisle is decorated with 500,000 dollar worth of pink, purple, red, white flowers. The sparkling ceilings were full of gold chandeliers. Guests were treated like celebrities with their names made in stars on the floor like a Hollywood walk of fame. Violinists stand on the stairs by the red carpet to welcome guests wzhen they walk into the venue.  Guests were also showered with lavish presents in suitcases like casino chips to use at the wedding, a screen showing a personal message from the bride and groom, a pen, and a golden CD. The 10-tire wedding cake looked like gold silk tied with white sugar flowers. Zuhair Murad designs the bride's glitzy beaded and off-the-shoulder wedding dress. Ballet dancers performed as the couple made their entrance and while they dance. Lady Gaga and Jason Derulo are invited to sing at the cost of 2 million dollars. The couple stayed at the Beverly Hills Hotel during the wedding.

Number Six, Michael Jordan and Yvette Prieto. The famous basketball player Michael Jordan and the Cuba model Yvette Prieto married in 2013 for a price tag of an estimated 10 million dollars. They tied the knot at the Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea, followed by a reception at Bear's Club in Jupiter, Florida, with 300 guests. Celebrities like Tiger Woods and Spike Lee attended. Famous singers like Usher, K'Jon, and Robin Thicke were invited for a live performance. Yvette Prieto's wedding dress is J'Aton with Swarovski Crystals.

Number Five, Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries. NBA player Kris Humphries started dating reality TV personality Kim Kardashian in October 2010 after meeting each other in New York. They got married in May 2011 with a 10 million dollar wedding but separated in only 72 days. It was one of the shortest marriages in Hollywood. Later on, Kim Kardashian admitted that she felt the pressure of getting older, which made her decision to get married. The wedding was held at a lavish California estate in Montecito in front of 450 guests, including celebrities. The wedding cake alone costs 20,000 dollars. Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries told People Magazine that the wedding was so perfect that it makes them feel in heaven.

Number Four, Angelababy and Huang Xiaoming. The cost of the wedding for this Chinese socialite is 31 million dollars in 2015. Both of them are the most famous actors in China. The wedding took place at the Shanghai Exhibition Center, with many celebrity friends show up. Angelababy’s wedding dress was custom from Dior gown. While a venue was entirely decked out in different colors of roses, the giant wedding cake in the center is 10-foot tall with a carousel middle layer. Based on Chinese wedding culture, guests were gifted with goodie bags and no doubt that their goodie bags are over-the-top.

Number Three, Prince William and Kate Middleton. The Royal Wedding costs 34 million dollars in 2011. Thirty-two million dollars goes to securities. It was considered "Wedding of the Century." Prince William is Prince Charles's oldest son and the second in a line of the throne in England. This luxury wedding was expected for future England's King and Queen. The ceremony was held at Westminster Abbey. After that, the couple paraded in royal a horse-drawn carriage on London street. The wedding flowers cost around 800,000 dollars, and the wedding cake costs 80,000 dollars. Kate Middleton's wedding dress costs 434,000 dollars, which is designed by Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen. This wedding has royals and nobles and hundreds of millions of audiences in front of the TV worldwide. 

Number Two, Vanisha Mittal and Amit Bhatia. This wedding costs 60 million dollars in 2005, 80 million dollars today, after adjusting by inflation. Maybe you are wondering who are these young couples and how they can afford such a luxury wedding? The answer is that the bride Vanisha Mittal is the daughter of Lakshmi Mittal, who is a steel-magnate billionaire. The groom Amit Bhatia is the owner of Swordfish Investments, which is an investment bank in London. Let us break it down on how the 60 million dollars was spent. First, this luxury wedding was held at a 16^th-century Chateau near Paris for six days. The engagement ceremony before the wedding was held in the Palace of Versailles. Versailles for five days. Their wedding guests have featured invitations mailed to them in silver boxes along with plane tickets and bookings of five-star hotel rooms in Paris. Kylie Minogue, an international recording artist, and actress, was paid 330,000 dollars to perform at the wedding.

Number One, Princess Diana and Prince Charles. Princess Diana and Prince Charles first met each other at Althorp House, her 1,500-acre family estate in Northamptonshire, England, in 1977. Their relationship was official out in 1980 when cameras capture Diana at Balmoral, the royal family's private estate in the Scottish Highlands. Prince Charles proposed at Windsor castle, and they got married in 1981, which was forty years, two decades from now. The wedding took place in St Paul’s Cathedral on July 29^th, with 3500 people in the presence and broadcasted to 750 million people in front of the TV. Princess Diana’s wedding dress is a puffball meringue style with a 25-foot train full of antique lace, ivory taffeta, and covered with 10,000 pearls. This wedding gown has an estimated price of 150,000 dollars. The main wedding cake is five- foot tall, along with the other 27 cakes took four months to prepare. This century wedding costs 48 million dollars in 1981 and 134 million dollars today after adjusting inflation. This wedding is far more expensive than any other wedding in the world and the most influential Royal Weddings in human history.

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