People Are Revealing The Most Over-The-Top Things Rich People Have Done At Their Weddings, And It's Wild
We recently asked the BuzzFeed Community to tell us the most extravagant things they've seen at a rich person's wedding. Here are the wildest results:
1."I went to a Persian Jewish wedding years ago where each centerpiece on the 20 or so tables easily cost about $500 each. That’s excluding flowers for the tall cake that had sculpted versions of the bride and groom as toppers, food tables, gift tables, and ceremony with the chuppah. The bride did two outfit changes (her big bridal gown and then her traditional Cambodian wedding attire). There was a lavish cocktail hour with tons of food, a fully hosted bar, and a giant candy/dessert station in addition to the aforementioned cake."
"They EASILY blew $200k+ on the entire thing."
2."Former LA caterer here! I once saw a couple who: A) rented out Nobu in Malibu for the ceremony, B) rented out a three-story night club in Hollywood for the reception, C) had a 6-foot-high cake that cost upwards of $80K, and her dress was $100K easily, D) the pre-dinner entertainment was the entire professional cast of Dancing with the Stars (Derek and Julianne Hough included) E) the after-show entertainment was RICK SPRINGFIELD, and finally, F) they had so much leftover Cristal champagne that I took home four bottles! Not a bad night for me!"
3."I went to a very wealthy person's wedding at a winery in Napa Valley. The most expensive parts were the food and drink. I believe 140 people attended, and as favors, the adults got to choose a bottle of red, white, or rosé wine, and two wine glasses as we walked out. YEAH. Also, each table had its own two-tier wedding cake! The big cake alone had to have been well over $15k, and each 'baby' cake was a replica of the bigger one, just a different flavor. And yes, I took the damn thing home with me, LOL (we were allowed to take whatever leftovers we wanted)."
"Everything was gorgeous, and years later, I came to learn that the whole wedding was a cool $2 million, but when daddy owns one of the biggest providers of lumber in North America, that's a drop in the bucket. The husband and wife are still together with four kids now. And I will say, the bride was extremely cool and down to earth. Her husband was the reason I went; he was my boss at the time, and HE was the diva. I know for a fact that anything uneaten was donated to a shelter in San Francisco at her request. She was super cool, and I got to know her a little better and joked that he didn't deserve her, LOL. She was the one with the money, too. Their wedding gift from her parents (because a $2-million wedding wasn't enough?) was a six-bed, four-bath 'starter' mini-mansion in Napa. Lord..."
4."I used to work for a high-end caterer in Austin, Texas, back in the 2000s. One wedding was hosted out in the country at an opulent ranch and had hundreds of guests in attendance. The couple hired a famous local straw cowboy hat maker who set up a stand and fitted each guest and every worker with their own beautiful wide-brimmed hat! They did a spectacular photo stunt where all the guests threw their hats in the air at once."
"It was amazing and something I'll never forget. They were rich but generous, and I still have that perfectly fitted hat to this day!"
5."When I was a young Lieutenant in the Army, I attended a fellow officer's wedding in New Orleans. He was an average guy from Texas but apparently was marrying into an incredibly rich family. We (myself and some other Lieutenants) had been friends with this guy for years. We showed up in our formal dress blue uniforms, looking all sharp, but were relegated to the back row of a huge church as there were easily over 400 people at this wedding. This was a guy we had all been deployed to war with. The real extravagance was the reception. Now, every big city tends to have its own World Trade Center (just like the one in NYC, but for that particular city, a place for businesses to be located and to promote international trade). The wedding reception was on the top floor of the World Trade Center of New Orleans with a band, a bar, the full lot."
"To this day, still one of the tallest buildings I've ever been up in. There is no way booking this location didn't cost hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of dollars. All to marry a soldier who literally drove a rusty pick-up truck. The class contrast was hilarious."
—41, Tennessee
6."My cousin recently married an NFL hall-of-famer (unfortunately, I couldn't attend said wedding), but from the pictures, I'd say the most extravagant thing I've witnessed second-hand is a bunch of NFL dudes on the dance floor, LOL."
7."A high school friend of mine had a massive, elaborate wedding dress with a huge train, then changed out of it for the reception (fine, people do that) — but into another dress with a huge train. So then, she had an attendant hired from the venue just to follow her around and guard the back of her dress so no one would step on it."
"She just had this young woman in a suit trailing behind her to watch her dress."
8."My boyfriend was a groomsman in his friend's wedding (the bride's parents were very wealthy). As a gift from the couple, all groomsmen got high-end designer watches, and the bridesmaids got Kate Spade purses — and it was a big wedding party."
9."Had a wedding at a resort I worked at where two senators (fed) flew in for the groom's dinner and gave checks to the couple (substantial money)."
10."I wouldn't say it was over-the-top, but I was once invited to a close friend's wedding where the bride and groom paid for the hotel and meals for the weekend for the entire wedding party and their out-of-town guests! They even paid for my parents, a last-minute invite, a hotel stay, etc. Classy AF."
11."At my cousin's wedding, also called a 'Tornaboda' in Mexico because it lasts several days, she had a seafood fest (Mariscada) on the third day of celebrations. To our surprise, it included caviar, which none of us Americans had ever had. Her wedding was when I realized how wealthy her parents were."
"Within a decade, they managed to lose it all, though."
12."I was in a wedding in the '80s, and the flowers were all flown into San Diego from Hawaii. The bridesmaids' dresses were custom-made by a seamstress. Everything was lavish. But the most 'uppity' thing was a framed declaration from the Vatican blessing their marriage. (He wasn’t Catholic, so it seemed out of place.) It was paraded through the church during the ceremony."
"How much does a family have to donate to the church to get that type of blessing?"
—Anonymous, California
13."I went to school with a lot of rich girls. One of them recently got married and had a big, Indian destination wedding. Her father told all the guests that he’d use his private jet to fly them out to the destination so they shouldn’t book their tickets. He sent them receipts for the private jet ride after the wedding."
—24, California
14."I have some cousins who are quite rich. My immediate family wasn't super close, but they invited the entire family to this wedding (to show off a bit, I presume). The wedding was at their million-dollar mansion, which no one but the bridal party was permitted to enter. The first wild thing was that they had a parking lot made by their house for guests; it was gravel, but still. The next things were that they had a drone as well as a photographer getting pictures and videos of the wedding."
"They had their own Snapchat filter created for this event. The bride's dress was, of course, from Kleinfeld's, and it was beautiful. I had no idea of the cost, but this family spares no expense usually. There are several other details that screamed rich, but after all of this, the bride and groom only lasted a couple of months..."
—24, Canada
15."This couple had a destination wedding in Lake Como, Italy, where they rented one villa for the wedding and then shuttled all of us to another villa for the reception. The couple arrived at the reception on horseback. Keep in mind, this was a multi-day wedding where the guests were taken out to explore the city and then treated to a multi-course meal the day before!"
—Anonymous, California
16."They spent over $50,000 just on the open bar."
And finally...
17."Pyrotechnics. They had fireworks shoot out of the centerpieces at each table as they entered the reception. Mom and Dad paid big money for that; they had to have extra insurance and a whole team there. It lasted less than two minutes, and the marriage lasted slightly longer!"
—50, New York
If you've been to a rich person's wedding, what's the most extravagant thing you've seen? Let us know in the comments below!
Note: Some responses have been edited for length and/or clarity.
