A while back a little snippet of news caught my attention. Oligarch spends One Billion dollars on daughter's wedding.
That is a staggering number. I Googled it and sure enough, there was an article all about this fabulous wedding. The gown was by a famous woman designer and was reportedly so heavy the bride had to have help getting into the thing.
Her engagement ring is worth ten million dollars and the size of a ping pong ball. I looked up various carat values of gems and the most pricey gem is emerald. Well beyond my budget.
Entertainment, at least part of it, was provided by Beyoncé. There were four or five other popular singers etc and I am a baby boomer and am not au courant with famous celebrity names.
I wonder if any of the Kardashians attended.
The article stated that Daddy was only worth 6.6 billion. With one billion gone on a huge wedding, I wonder if Papa passed the hat or perhaps there was a well heeled thug standing by the door with a very large crystal bowl filled with cash and various other valuables.
The wedding cake was nine feet tall! I don't recall if there was a sit down dinner but at this stratospheric level, I would think it was unavoidable. Pretty sure the bar was free featuring Crystal champagne, the finest Russian vodka and lots of caviar. Dinner would have required a full on restaurant, five stars and all. It must have been served a la Russe which means each diner had an attendant standing in back of them ready to instantly fetch them various dinner items etc. Or escort them to their room to ah..recover.
Let us consider gifts for the ladies and gentleman who stood up during the service. The service may have been your standard I do's or have been a rather exotic Russian Orthodox church version with chanting priests, boy choirs, the whole shooting match. Takes stamina to get through a fancy wedding. Probably had to take a ten minute break to keep folks from collapsing in exhaustion.
So back to costumes etc. The best man and the other dudes, all ten of them, would have had fitted tuxedoes, everything from the skin out and bespoke shoes. The ladies would have received lavish gowns, some nice glittering jewelery, hair dressers, seamstresses, make up artists and glorious shoes.
Housing was provided at the venue, an estimated one thousand suites. OK, Dad fought an old unfinished Trump hotel. Transportation provided by private jet and ground transport was nice roomy Rolls Royce saloons.
A favorite Russian treat is a circus. There were rumors that the Russian version of Cir Du Soleil was invited to complete with local clowns, bears, trapeze artists and jugglers.
For those who wished to lose their billions, the casino was open in a vast underground complex that would allow all games of chance with the required lack of exit signs and no clocks. With the house odds, very few left with plump wallets.
At this point I am legally required to offer a disclaimer, there may have been a slight exaggeration regarding the extend of the money spent on the wedding as well as some of the amenities. But think about I bet I didn't break a billion.
A billion dollars is a lot of money. I could think of a whole bucket full of things to purchase...like a small country. I was also thinking of the money spent on my first wedding. A girlfriend bought the wedding cake, my mother-in-law made the grooms cake. To this day I wish I had the recipe, it had brown sugar and nuts in and was extremely tasty. My Uncle Carl brought a case of champagne. Grandma LaVann brought a ton of greenery from her ranch and decorated the VHF hall we had hired. I think that was fifty bucks My bouquet came from Helen's yard, daisies I think. Uncle Phil took a thousand pictures. Dad walked me down the aisle. Mom made my wedding dress it consisted of a simple satin sheath with a over dress of lace with long sleeves. My going away dress was made by Sheri. She used some fabric Mike had picked up in Thailand. It was a blue raw silk. It was a lovely little thing. We spent the wedding night at a hotel nearby and went to go see "Patton". It is the only movie I have ever seen where I knew it was an Academy Award winner. I forgot the invitations. I think that was less then one hundred bucks and address was wrong and I had to hand write the correction on all of them. The groom gave the Priest a stipend of twenty-five bucks. The Priest probably thought were were cheapskates. So I'm thinking we spent about 500 bucks at most.
Second wedding was much simpler. We paid for a license, made an appointment with the magistrate and got married at the court house about 2 pm. And that married just turned 25 years old. Easy peasy. Congrats all around.
That is a staggering number. I Googled it and sure enough, there was an article all about this fabulous wedding. The gown was by a famous woman designer and was reportedly so heavy the bride had to have help getting into the thing.
Her engagement ring is worth ten million dollars and the size of a ping pong ball. I looked up various carat values of gems and the most pricey gem is emerald. Well beyond my budget.
Entertainment, at least part of it, was provided by Beyoncé. There were four or five other popular singers etc and I am a baby boomer and am not au courant with famous celebrity names.
I wonder if any of the Kardashians attended.
The article stated that Daddy was only worth 6.6 billion. With one billion gone on a huge wedding, I wonder if Papa passed the hat or perhaps there was a well heeled thug standing by the door with a very large crystal bowl filled with cash and various other valuables.
The wedding cake was nine feet tall! I don't recall if there was a sit down dinner but at this stratospheric level, I would think it was unavoidable. Pretty sure the bar was free featuring Crystal champagne, the finest Russian vodka and lots of caviar. Dinner would have required a full on restaurant, five stars and all. It must have been served a la Russe which means each diner had an attendant standing in back of them ready to instantly fetch them various dinner items etc. Or escort them to their room to ah..recover.
Let us consider gifts for the ladies and gentleman who stood up during the service. The service may have been your standard I do's or have been a rather exotic Russian Orthodox church version with chanting priests, boy choirs, the whole shooting match. Takes stamina to get through a fancy wedding. Probably had to take a ten minute break to keep folks from collapsing in exhaustion.
So back to costumes etc. The best man and the other dudes, all ten of them, would have had fitted tuxedoes, everything from the skin out and bespoke shoes. The ladies would have received lavish gowns, some nice glittering jewelery, hair dressers, seamstresses, make up artists and glorious shoes.
Housing was provided at the venue, an estimated one thousand suites. OK, Dad fought an old unfinished Trump hotel. Transportation provided by private jet and ground transport was nice roomy Rolls Royce saloons.
A favorite Russian treat is a circus. There were rumors that the Russian version of Cir Du Soleil was invited to complete with local clowns, bears, trapeze artists and jugglers.
For those who wished to lose their billions, the casino was open in a vast underground complex that would allow all games of chance with the required lack of exit signs and no clocks. With the house odds, very few left with plump wallets.
At this point I am legally required to offer a disclaimer, there may have been a slight exaggeration regarding the extend of the money spent on the wedding as well as some of the amenities. But think about I bet I didn't break a billion.
A billion dollars is a lot of money. I could think of a whole bucket full of things to purchase...like a small country. I was also thinking of the money spent on my first wedding. A girlfriend bought the wedding cake, my mother-in-law made the grooms cake. To this day I wish I had the recipe, it had brown sugar and nuts in and was extremely tasty. My Uncle Carl brought a case of champagne. Grandma LaVann brought a ton of greenery from her ranch and decorated the VHF hall we had hired. I think that was fifty bucks My bouquet came from Helen's yard, daisies I think. Uncle Phil took a thousand pictures. Dad walked me down the aisle. Mom made my wedding dress it consisted of a simple satin sheath with a over dress of lace with long sleeves. My going away dress was made by Sheri. She used some fabric Mike had picked up in Thailand. It was a blue raw silk. It was a lovely little thing. We spent the wedding night at a hotel nearby and went to go see "Patton". It is the only movie I have ever seen where I knew it was an Academy Award winner. I forgot the invitations. I think that was less then one hundred bucks and address was wrong and I had to hand write the correction on all of them. The groom gave the Priest a stipend of twenty-five bucks. The Priest probably thought were were cheapskates. So I'm thinking we spent about 500 bucks at most.
Second wedding was much simpler. We paid for a license, made an appointment with the magistrate and got married at the court house about 2 pm. And that married just turned 25 years old. Easy peasy. Congrats all around.
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