Hollywood superstars Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes said their vows in the fifteenth-century Odescalchi Castle, located just outside of Rome. This picturesque venue undoubtedly contributed to a final bill of £1.7 million, as did their exquisite white chocolate wedding cake, complete with marzipan roses. The couple’s celebrity-studded guest list included Will Smith, Jennifer Lopez and David Beckham. With £690,000 spent on flying the guests to Italy, and £140,000 splashed on a whopping
300 bottles of wine, Tom and Katie spared no expense when it came to treating their guests!

In 2007, entrepreneur Arun Nayar and married actress Elizabeth Hurley. Their £2 million wedding consisted of a double ceremony that spanned over eight days. The first half of their nuptials took place at Gloucestershire’s gorgeous Sudeley Castle, and for the latter part of their celebrations, the couple spent £230,000 on private jets to fly themselves and their guests out to the breath-taking Umaid Bhawan Palace in India. Over £77,000 was spent on accommodation, with the newlyweds treating themselves to some time in a £7,700-a-night Indian bridal suite.

Back in 2002, Beatles legend Paul McCartney tied the knot with Heather Mills during an extravagant Indian-style wedding that cost nearly £2.8 million. The couple were married at St Salvador’s Church in Monaghan, Ireland, after which the party moved to Castle Leslie in Glaslough, a venue that cost £31,000 to rent. Fireworks costing £120,000 and flowers worth £111,000 completed this incredible occasion, as did Paul and his fellow bandmates’, Ringo Starr and George Harrison, performance of a song dedicated to the new Mrs McCartney.

Footballer Wayne Rooney married his high school sweetheart Coleen McLoughlin in an intimate ceremony – only eight people were invited to attend the ceremony that took place in a seventeenth-century Italian villa. Media reporters were also present, as a magazine offered the couple £1.9 million in return for photographing their special day. Despite already being rich and famous, this extra chunk of cash meant Wayne and Coleen were presumably unruffled by the massive £6.1 million they spent on these celebrations. The wedding reception was a bigger affair, held at a medieval abbey, high above the fishing village of Portofino. The couple flew their friends and family to Genoa, Italy by private jet, while the bride arrived at the ceremony on a luxury yacht. Guests were also treated to a masked ball aboard a £92 million yacht, and accommodation in five-star hotels.

Despite costing a hefty £7.7 million, Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries barely paid a penny for their 2011 wedding. E! News covered their bill in return for exclusive coverage of the event, which 10 million viewers tuned in to watch, while the couple were offered £14 million alone for the rights to their wedding snaps – meaning they actually made a profit from throwing this extravagant bash!

Huang Xiaoming and Angelababy began their lavish celebrations with a pre-wedding photoshoot in Paris, during which the bride modelled several gorgeous Elie Saab couture gowns. Snaps from the shoot were displayed on screens during their special day, just one expense of their £24 million wedding, a momentous event that was live-streamed online. The Shanghai Exhibition Centre, overflowing with roses, played host to the couple and their 2,000 guests. A holographic castle and ten-foot cake shaped like a carousel, that reportedly took a month to create, also added to the gigantic bill, as did the luxury gift bags bestowing every guest with a new mobile phone. The bride’s custom Dior gown was made of 165 feet of tulle, 115 feet of ivory satin organza and nearly 100 hand cut Chantilly lace rose bouquets. As for the wedding band, words can’t describe the beautiful Joséphine Aigrette Impériale ring sitting on Angelababy’s slender finger. With a huge five carat pear-shaped diamond, the ring alone is worth an estimated £1 million.

One of the biggest and most anticipated events of the decade, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s 2011 Royal Wedding cost a staggering £26 million. A record-breaking two billion people across the world tuned in to watch the ceremony at Westminster Abbey, to which 1,900 guests attended. A luncheon hosted by the Queen at Buckingham Palace seated 600 people, after which 300 attended a dinner held by Prince Charles. Kate Middleton’s exquisite and timeless Alexander McQueen wedding gown cost £250,000, nearly £620,000 was spent on the flowers, and the couple’s cake was worth a mighty £61,000.

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