Some of the most expensive weddings
                     SOME OF THE MOST EXPENSIVE 
WEDDINGS IN THE HISTORY
1. PRINCE CHARLES & DIANA – $110 MILLION
Though their wedding took place decades ago, no other wedding 
has come close to Prince Charles and Princess Diana’s. Witnessed 
personally by 3,500 people and broadcasted to 750 million TV 
viewers from around the global the Royal Wedding between Prince 
Charles and Princess Diana in 1981 is simply the most expensive 
wedding ever.
Princess Diana’s wedding gown was covered in 10,000 pearls an 
had a 25-foot train. She was chauffeured in a glass coach from her 
place to the cathedral. However, the marriage suffered greatly as 
both Charles and Diana participated in flirtations with other people. 
The royal couple divorced in 1996, a year before Diana met her 
tragic end in a car crash along with her lover, Egyptian 
businessman Dodi Fayed.
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2. VANISHA MITTAL & AMIT BHATIA – $66 MILLION
Vanisha Mittal is the daughter of Lakshmi 
Mittal, one of the richest men in the world. 
Not surprisingly, her wedding to Amit 
Bhatia is one of the most extravagant ever. 
The wedding was held at the historic 17th 
century Chateau Veaux le Vicomte near 
Paris in 2004. An engagement ceremony 
prior to the wedding took place at the 
Palace of Versailles.
International recording artists and actress 
Kylie Minogue was paid $330,000 to 
perform for just half an hour. After which, a 
firework display was launched from the 
Eiffel Tower. The marriage did not last long Picture.org
as the couple called it quits in early 2013
4. WAYNE ROONEY & COLEEN MCLOUGHLIN – $8 MILLION
Footballer Wayne Rooney of the Manchester United 
and Coleen McLaughlin made their vows at the 
Abbey of Carver near Genoa in Italy in 2008. 
Serenading the couple and the guests was the Irish 
boy band, West life, which cost $670,000. Rooney 
chartered five private jets to fly 64 of their guests to 
the wedding. While the ceremony was lavish, the 
couple had little help in paying the bills as a 
magazine offered $4.2 million for the exclusive 
rights of the wedding photos. Today, Wayne and 
Coleen are happy with their married lives and are 
now raising two boys.
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5. CHELSEA CLINTON & MARC MEZVINSKY – $5 MILLION
If you’re the daughter of the former 
president of the United States and 
former US Secretary of State, chances 
are your wedding will be far from 
simple. And that is just the case for 
Chelsea Clinton, daughter of ex-US 
President Bill Clinton and former 
Secretary of State and Senator Hillary 
Clinton. Chelsea married investment 
banker Marc Mezvinsky in a grand 
wedding ceremony at the Astor 
Courts in 2010. The venue provided a 
serene and romantic view of the Wikipedia.com
Hudson River.
6. LIZA MINNELLI & DAVID GEST – $4.2 MILLION
Singing sensation Liza Minnelli married 
concert promoter David Gest in an 
extravagant ceremony on New York’s 
Fifth Avenue in 2002. The guests 
included the whole Jackson Five, with 
Michael Jackson as the best man. 
Elizabeth Taylor was the matron of 
honor. Queen guitarist Brian May, Liam 
Neeson, Joan Collins, Gloria Gaynor, 
Anthony Hopkins, Mia Farrow were 
among the superstars who attended the 
elaborate wedding.
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7. ELIZABETH TAYLOR & LARRY FORTENSKY – $4 MILLION
Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor met construction worker 
Larry Fortensky in a rehab facility where both checked in for 
their drug problems. In an interesting and unique love story 
that captured a lot of people’s attention, the couple married 
in 1991 at Michael Jackson’s Never land Ranch. The 
ceremony was a star-studded event with celebrities like Liza 
Minnelli, Eddie Murphy, and Macaulay Culkin among the 
guests. Prior to the wedding, Fortensky signed a prenup 
where he would only get $1 million should the couple split, 
provided the marriage lasted 5 years. After five years had 
passed, the two did separate but remained good friends 
until Taylor’s death in 2011. The actress left Forte sky 
$800,000 as indicated in her will.
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8. PAUL MCCARTNEY & HEATHER MILLS – $3.6 MILLION
Music legend Paul McCartney and 
entrepreneur Heather Mills got hitched in 
2002 at the castle in Ireland. The ceremony 
was attended by 300 guests, who then had to 
put up with a vegetarian menu at the lavish 
reception that followed. The marriage did not 
last long as the couple split four years later 
and finally ended their marriage in 2008. The 
worst is that the divorce was costlier than 
the wedding itself, with McCartney ordered 
by the court to pay Mills around $27 million 
as a one-off payment and another $13million 
in assets. BBC
9. LIZA MINNELLI & 
DAVID GEST – $4.2 
MILLION
Singing sensation Liza Minnelli married 
concert promoter David Gest in an 
extravagant ceremony on New York’s Fifth 
Avenue in 2002. The guests included the 
whole Jackson Five, with Michael Jackson 
as the best man. Elizabeth Taylor was the 
matron of honor. Queen guitarist Brian 
May, Liam Neeson, Joan Collins, Gloria 
Gaynor, Anthony Hopkins, Mia Farrow were 
among the superstars who attended the 
elaborate wedding. The couple did not last                     Express.co.in
though, as they split in just over a year. 
They filed for divorce five years after, 
which was branded as the “dirtiest” in 
Hollywood. Gest complained that Liza 
would beat him after she had too much 
alcohol.
10. CHRISTINA AGUILERA & JORDAN BRATMAN – $2.2 MILLION
Music siren Christina Aguilera and music 
label executive Jordan Bratman got married 
in 2005. Aguilera and Bratman, then aged 24 
an 27 respectively, held the ceremony in a 
tent erected in the middle of a vineyard in the 
Napa Valley. The wedding came after 
Bratman’s very romantic proposal where he 
filled a hotel room with rose petals, balloons, 
and gift boxes, one of which contained the 
ring. Aguilera wore an expensive Christian 
Lacroix gown when she walked the aisle. Express.in
However, the couple had a tumultuous phase 
five years later. They attempted to reconcile 
for the sake of their son Max, who was then 
aged two. But they split anyways and 
divorced in 2010
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