Top 10 Celebrities Most Expensive Wedding Dresses
Let’s forget for a second how much you spent on your wedding dress and look at the top 10 celebrities most expensive wedding dresses.
The average price for a wedding gown today is around $1.500.
However, we all know that celebrities like to exaggerate. Why not after all? It’s the bride’s most important day.
These 10 wedding gowns range from $40.000 all the way up to $500.000. However, even the world’s most expensive wedding dresses can’t buy you love.
Few of the celebrity brides featured in our top 10 list are still married to their grooms. Let’s get straight to business, shall we?
10Heather Mills’ Wedding Dress – Price: $40.000
If you remember, we talked about Heather Mills on our article Most Infamous Gold Diggers.
The English entrepreneur was Paul McCartney’s wife from 2002 to 2008.
Sir Paul McCartney has admitted that his marriage to Heather Mills was one of the biggest mistakes of his life.
And although their marriage was short-lived, the dress still lives on.
Worth $40.000, Heather Mills had worn a wedding dress of ercu lace designed by the famous fashion house Eavis & Brown of London.
9Tori Spelling’s Wedding Dress – Price: $50.000
One of the costliest wedding dresses is the one that the Beverly Hills star, Tori Spelling, had worn in 2004.
That year, Tori Spelling wedded her first husband, Charlie Shanian, and had an awesome $1 million wedding.
Priced at $50.000, the lavish wedding dress that Tori Spelling had worn was designed by Badgley Mischka.
The gorgeous flapper-esque inspired wedding gown was hand-sewn with loads of beadwork.
Too bad their marriage didn’t last. Shortly after their wedding, the couple split. Charlie Shanian apparently was blindsided by her affair, which he only found out about through a tabloid.
8Grace Kelly’s Wedding Dress – Price: $65.000
When it comes to wedding gowns, Grace Kelly was an inspiration for the Duchess of Cambridge, Catherine Middleton.
First an American film actress and later the Princess of Monaco, Grace Kelly had worn a wedding gown designed by Helen Rose, a seamstress at MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer).
The dress features a style specific to that century, meaning full skirts, long sleeves and high neckline, which is exactly how this wedding dress was designed.
Made up of 100 yards of silk net and 25 yards of silk taffeta which also featured ivory peau de soie and Brussels rose point lace embroidered with seed pearls, the wedding dress is worthy of a true princess.
7Madonna’s Wedding Dress – Price: $80.000
At the age of 42, Madonna married Guy Ritchie on 22nd of December, 2000, and she had worn a wedding dress designed by Madonna’s maid of honor, Stella McCartney.
The $80.000 wedding dress was made of ivory silk, featuring corset bodice and full-length skirt.
And to make sure she was the most beautiful woman at the party, Madonna had accessorized her wedding dress with a huge 37 carats diamond cross necklace and with an antique veil embroidered with lace and attached to an Edwardian diamond crown.
She also accessorized with the $72,000 antique French bracelet studded with 19 carats of diamonds that Guy Ritchie gave her as a wedding gift.
After the wedding ceremony, Madonna changed into another dress designed by Jean-Paul Gaultier and later into a Versace dress designed by another good friend and wedding guest, Donatella Versace.
6Victoria Beckham’s Wedding Dress – Price: $100.000
Ex member of the Spice Girls band, Victoria made an entrance at her wedding in a champagne-coloured strapless Vera Wang wedding dress.
She also had worn a gold and diamond tiara called ‘East of Paris’ which went on auction at Bonhams auction house in London for an estimated $28.963 – $40.227.
Victoria Beckham certainly has an enviable wardrobe and she purged her closet to raise money for a charitable organization named Mothers2Mothers.
During the event, she admitted that she can’t bear to part with the $100.000 wedding dress. The reason almost brought tears in our eyes. She’s saving it for her daughter, Harper.
The Vera Wang gown isn’t the only sentimental piece she held on to. Victoria also kept the dress she wore when she first went on a date with David Beckham.
5Melania Knauss’ Wedding Dress – Price: $100.000 – $200.000
Melania Knauss-Trump is a Slovenian former model and the wife of American real estate magnate Donald Trump.
So when you marry a really wealthy man, your wedding dress will definitely has to be an expensive, luxurious one.
When the two married in 2005, Melania Knauss made an entrance in a Christian Dior dress made of 300 feet tulle and embroidered with over 1.500 pearls and rhinestones.
The dress was so huge that the former model had to eat well before the wedding so that she could bear the weight of the dress.
The wedding took place at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida’s Palm Beach, where the ballroom was filled with 10.000 flowers and guests dined on Grand Marnier cake, caviar and Cristal champagne.
4Princess Diana’s Wedding Dress – Price: $115.000 – $150.000
The dress that Lady Diana had worn the day she married Prince Charles in 1981 officially costs $115.000 – $150.000.
Designed by David and Elizabeth Emmanuel, the 250-yard lace, tulle and ivory silk taffeta gown is embellished with 10.000 pearls and sequins covering its layers upon layers of fabric.
What puts this wedding dress on the spotlight is the fact that the wedding dress features a 25-foot-long train.
It is one of the costliest celebrity wedding dresses and it also became one of the most famous dresses in the world.
The gown was described as a dress that ‘had to be something that was going to go down in history, but also something that Diana loved‘.
3Mauro Adami’s Wedding Dress – Price: $380.000
No celebrity has actually worn this wedding dress, but it had to be on our top 10 list, because it really is a masterpiece.
Designed in 2008 by the Italian ace designer Mauro Adami, who once made Keith Richards a platinum jacket, the exquisite wedding dress was sewn with platinum and silk thread.
And trust us, you don’t want to spill champagne on this expensive dress!
Designed as a part of Domo Adamicollection, the dress is in the window of the Wedding Ring Shop in Hatton Garden and is the centrepiece of the festival, held every year to celebrate the street’s history of artistry and craftsmanship.
2Kate Middleton’s Wedding Dress – Price: $400.000
Kate Middleton’s wedding dress was inspired by the one that Grace Kelly worn at her own wedding.
Made from silk net and lace, the gown sure gives a royal look. This exquisite masterpiece was designed by Sarah Burton, creative director at Alexander McQueen.
The lace roses are the symbol for England, thistles are for Scotland, shamrocks for Ireland and daffodils for Wales. All in one unique dress that is fit for both a princess and a fashionista.
Designer Mark Badgley of Badgley Mischka, described the style of Kate Middleton’s dress: ‘It’s the kind of gown that will stand the test of time. Not all gowns do.
Any bride across the world will want to wear it. It’s got a touch of vintage, a classic 1950s ball gown, so timeless that her daughter would look gorgeous in this gown 30 years from now.’
1Kim Kardashian’s Wedding Dress – Price: $500.000
#1 from our top 10 list is Kim Kardashian’s wedding dress, which looked sensational in front of a floor-to-ceiling white flower backdrop.
Kanye West admitted that they built the backdrop specifically to match her gown.
Priced at half a million, the Haute Couture Givenchy wedding dress features a luxurious sweeping veil and train.
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West tied the knot at the Forte di Belvedere in Florence, Italy.
Next to his beautiful bride, Kanye West also looks stunning, dressed in a black suit and bow tie.
This concludes our cover on the celebrities most expensive wedding dresses!
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