Top 5 Most Expensive Weddings!

Which is the most expensive wedding in the history of the world? That is the ones the cost of which can be calculated. Whether it is royal weddings, weddings of business tycoons or movie stars, celebrity weddings have their way of charming the general public. Who can forget that historic kiss by the royal couple, Prince Charles and Princess Diana? These wedding of famous celebrity couples remain burned in out memory long after the people are actually gone.

Here are 5 most historically expensive weddings in this century. They have been ranked after calculating the cost of inflation, i.e. the depreciating value of currency so be ready for some surprises.

Top 5 Most Expensive Weddings Of The World:

1. Prince Charles & Princess Diana: It is only fitting for a royal wedding to be on the top of the chart but you would have have expected the recent one to be on the top! Well sorry Kate and William but your parents wedding still has the crown. This wedding of the crown prince (who still remains the crown prince and the princess is dead) took place in 1981 and was covered live by television cameras. Diana's puffed sleeves wedding dress and the famous 5 foot tall expensive wedding cake still remains an urban legend after the Princess's sad demise.
Costs: Was $48 million then but today it stands at $110 million.

2. Vanisha Mittal & Amit Bhatia: The dream wedding at a Paris Chateau is the most expensive wedding of giant business tycoons ever. The only daughter of steel tycoon Lakshmi Narayan Mittal wed a London based Investment banker. The wedding was a mega 5 day event. The wedding invitations contributed to a large portion of the costs as they were send in silver boxes instead of envelopes and included air tickets.
Costs: $66 million

3. Kate Middleton & Prince William: A relatively simple celebrity wedding with a simple bride and a royal groom. Not quite the charismatic event like the last royal wedding but distinct nevertheless. The cake was famously priced $ 80 thousand but most expenses were on security arrangements.
Costs: $34 million

4. Wayne Rooney & Coleen McLoughlin: The sports wedding of the century. A celebrity couple with a rags to riches story; the girl is from an ordinary middle class family but the groom is the star footballer of Manchester United club, England. The yacht wedding took place at the exotic location of Genoa and all the guests were flown in by chartered flights.
Costs: $8 million

5. Chelsea Clinton & Marc Mezvinsky: The first daughter of USA should surely wed in style. This celebrity wedding of US President Bill Clinton and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's daughter to a super rich investment banker family friend was a memorable wedding. Special features were the designer wedding gown or the who's who of US Senate in attendance.
Costs: About $5 million

These were the most expensive weddings that are still in the public eye.