Most Expensive Parties Ever Thrown
With this year’s launch of The Great Gatsby we were all left with a taste of celebration, so we decided to take a look at the Most Expensive Parties Ever Thrown!
Who doesn’t love partying? And although some may argue that an amazing party is one that you don’t really remember when it ended the following people made sure theirs are the most memorable parties in history.
We’ll take a look at parties where the budget didn’t have a cap and people still talk today about them!
This is Top 10 Most Expensive Parties Ever Thrown!
#10 Liza Minnelli’s Wedding ~ Bill: $3.5 million
When Michael Jackson’s is your best man, and Elizabeth Taylor is your maid of honor you can be sure you get your wedding on our list!
When Liza Minnelli married David Gest and they made sure to spare no expense for the most important day of their life!
Bill Clinton knows how to throw a wedding, making it #9 on our list:
#9 Bill Clinton’s Daughter’s Wedding ~ Bill: $5 million
When Chelsea Clinton married the investment banker Marc Mezvinsky in front of the 500 guests everything had to be perfect!
Starting with air-conditioned tents, a wedding dress by Vera Wang and a $11,000 cake!
With everything included the entire event gathered a $5 Million check for the former president, but how many times do you get married these days?
Bill spared no expense and the grand wedding will probably stay in history as one of the most expensive weddings in world history!
With a $7 Million price tag the following birthday is only #8:
#8 Birthday Celebration of David Bonderman ~ Bill: $7 million
The founding partner of Texas Pacific Group has a net worth of $2.6 billion, and as they say everything is bigger in Texas so was his anniversary!
When you’ve got that much cash to spare it’s clear that you’re gonna throw one hell of a party!
Notable mentions among many others was that the Rolling Stones were hired to perform.
The place was filled with other billionaires and millionaires + some of the most influential people in the world!
Finally, a football player on the list:
#7 Wedding of Wayne Rooney ~ Bill: $7 million
Being one of the most beloved football players in the world, Wayne Rooney celebrated his wedding to Coleen McLoughlin in a 17th century villa and reception at a medieval abbey in Portofino.
Spending over $7 Million on the most important day of his life Rooney got the royal treatment.
Family and friends were flown to the destination if they weren’t close by and everything was put on his tab.
Plenty of celebrities attended and no expense was spared!
This is the most expensive wedding in Sport’s History!
Next we go to a younger celebration where daddy didn’t care about the budget:
#6 Bar Mitzvah of Elizabeth Brooks ~ Bill: $10 million
David Brooks made his fortune producing defense weapons, so as any weapon mogul would do, when his daughter turned 13 he made her wish, to see her favorite pop idols live, came true!
Aerosmith, Ciara, 50 Cent and Stevie Nicks were all flown in Brook’s private jet for the occasion.
Aerosmith’s tab for this event was 10% of the budget and with a total price of $10 Million Elizabeth’s party is the most expensive Bar Mitzvah in the world!
Could you imagine being 13 and whatever you wished for turned to reality? That’s the power of money!
One of the most luxurious lifestyles in the world is lived by the Sultan of Brunei, so his yearly birthday exceeds some of the most expensive parties ever thrown!
#5 50th Birthday Celebration of Sultan of Brunei ~ Bill: $27,2 million
When the Sultan of the oil-rich country of Brunei turned 50, back in 2006, Michael Jackson was paid for a live performance and apart from the usual caviar and champagne the civil service employees of the small country got a increase in their pay.
Notorious world wide for his luxurious lifestyle, the Sultan’s Birthday is just another occasion for him to show the opulence and wealth he managed to accumulate along the years!
Not to mention that with the increase in oil prices his becoming wealthier than ever!
One of our favorite hotels in the world had an incredible opening that made history:
#4 Opening of the Atlantis Hotel In Dubai ~ Bill: $31 million
Kylie Minogue’s live performance was a very small piece of the allocated budged for the grand opening of one of the world’s most opulent hotels: Atlantis Hotel Dubai.
Over 2000 Hollywood celebrities were flown in for the event, and the fireworks used made history as the biggest event of it’s kind in history! See the Grand opening here!
Atlantis Hotel in Dubai is one of the most luxurious hotels in the world and it doesn’t come as a shock that they wanted to make their entrance with a bang!
From a luxury hotel we’re moving on to the Prince of Abu Dhabi:
#3 Wedding of the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi ~ Bill: $45 million
If you take everything into account this is The Most Expensive Wedding In the World and also The Most Expensive Party Ever Thrown!
Although the bill was $45 million we need to take into account it the fact that it was worth that back in 1981. Factor in for inflation and the fact that the price of jewelry is on the rise this wedding is worth more than $100 million in today money!
The wedding of Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan and princess Salama took place in a stadium built specially for this occasion in order to accommodate up to 20,000 guests.
Every town in Abu Dhabi celebrated the event and the opulence culminated with the gifts to the bride which consisted in 20 camels that had their backs loaded with diamonds and precious jewels.
Steel Tycoon Lakshmi Mittal doesn’t have a problem spending $60 Million on his daughter’s wedding, and why should he?
#2 Wedding of Steel Tycoon Lakshmi Mittal’s Daughter ~ Bill: $60 million
Lakshmi Mittal’s net worth is over $16 billion, so when time came for his daughter,Vanisha, to get married to the businessman Amit Bhatia, the budget was never even discussed!
The invitations for each guest were made of silver and had over 20 pages each!
Every guest was flown in and accommodated in a 5 star hotels in Paris, the ceremony was held in the Palace of Versailles.
If the wasn’t enough, the wine alone cost over $1.5 million and later that night the Eiffel Tower was booked in order to shoot fireworks from it!
Time has finally come to take a look at the most expensive wedding in the world:
#1 William and Kate’s Royal Wedding ~ Bill: $70 million
If you don’t know about this wedding you’re probably deaf, blind and dead.
So where do we start, with over half of the entire wedding budget spent for security reasons, millions in flowers, a million-dollar wedding dress, worn by Princess Diana and the whole world looking at them, makes William and Kate’s Royal Wedding the Most Expensive Party/Wedding/Event ever thrown!
The entire thing ended up costing $70 Million but they surely made history.
I hope you enjoyed our article and we look forward to your comments to see what are your thoughts on the most expensive parties ever thrown!
