For most people, a wedding is the biggest spending event of their life. For Hollywood celebrities, it is just another Tuesday. From Italian castles and private jets to $500,000 wedding gowns and caviar towers, the most extravagant celebrity weddings make fairy tales look modest. Here are the Hollywood stars who spent the most on their big day — ranked from highest to lowest.
1. Michael Jordan — $14 Million
Michael Jordan waited eight years before proposing to girlfriend Yvette Prieto — and when he finally walked down the aisle, he did it in the most spectacular fashion imaginable.
Two thousand guests descended on the Bear’s Club in Palm Beach, Florida for a celebration that went down in history. Prieto wore a custom gown adorned with Swarovski crystals that left the room breathless. The reception tent — specially constructed for the event — was officially named the largest in wedding history at 40,000 square feet. The total cost reached $14 million in today’s money, making it the most expensive celebrity wedding in Hollywood history.
2. Salma Hayek — $3.5 Million
When Salma Hayek married French billionaire François-Henri Pinault, she did not do it quietly.
The couple first exchanged vows on Valentine’s Day 2009 and then renewed them in Venice, Italy — flying 400 guests in on private jets for the occasion. Hayek wore a custom-designed wedding gown worth $500,000. The flowers alone cost $1 million. Food and drink — featuring fresh lobster, Kobe beef, and caviar — added another layer of extraordinary indulgence to one of Hollywood’s most visually spectacular weddings.
3. Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel — $6.5 Million
Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel chose an Italian destination wedding for their 2012 nuptials — and spared absolutely nothing.
The ceremony took place at a stunning Italian villa with close friends including Jimmy Fallon, Andy Samberg, and Questlove in attendance. The total budget reached $6.5 million — covering a custom Giambattista Valli pink wedding gown for Biel, an elaborate multi-day celebration, and a level of intimate luxury that even their celebrity guests found breathtaking. The couple has remained happily married — making every cent feel well spent.
4. Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries — $10 Million
The most infamous wedding on this list cost $10 million and lasted exactly 72 days.
Kim Kardashian and basketball player Kris Humphries staged one of the most lavish celebrity weddings ever televised — a spectacular production broadcast across multiple episodes of Keeping Up with the Kardashians. The guest list included every major name in entertainment. Kim wore not one but three custom Vera Wang gowns across the day. The marriage ended in divorce after just 72 days — making the cost per day of marriage a number too painful to calculate.
5. Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck — $1.5 Million
After nearly twenty years apart, Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck finally married in 2022 — and they did it twice.
A simple Las Vegas ceremony came first — the spontaneous, intimate version. The larger celebration followed at Affleck’s Georgia estate with 150 guests, multiple gown changes by Lopez — wearing custom Ralph Lauren designs — and a weekend of festivities that reportedly cost $1.5 million. For a reunion two decades in the making, the spending felt entirely appropriate. Their eventual separation in 2024 made the wedding one of Hollywood’s most bittersweet celebrations in recent memory.
6. Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas — $1.5 Million
Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas married at New York’s Plaza Hotel in 2000 with 350 of Hollywood’s biggest names in attendance.
Entertainment came from Jimmy Buffett and Art Garfunkel alongside a 40-member Welsh choir — a nod to Zeta-Jones’s Welsh heritage. Guests including Jack Nicholson, Meg Ryan, and Goldie Hawn celebrated in one of Hollywood’s most classically glamorous wedding settings. The total cost reached $1.5 million — elegant, spectacular, and entirely befitting two of Hollywood’s most enduring stars.
7. Elton John and David Furnish — $2 Million
Elton John and David Furnish had their civil ceremony in 2005 — but when marriage equality became legal in the United Kingdom in 2014, they did it all over again.
The second ceremony took place at Windsor’s Guildhall with 600 guests including David and Victoria Beckham, Hugh Grant, and Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne. The champagne and caviar bill alone exceeded $100,000. The total cost reached $2 million — a joyful, spectacular celebration of a love that had waited years for the law to catch up with it.
8. Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston — $1 Million
Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston’s 2000 wedding was the hottest ticket in Hollywood.
The couple spent $100,000 on security alone — reflecting how enormous their combined star power had become by the turn of the millennium. The total cost reached $1 million, making it one of the decade’s most celebrated celebrity weddings. Their five-year marriage ended in 2005 — but the wedding itself was considered one of Hollywood’s most perfectly executed at the time.
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