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When it comes to celebrity nuptials, it seems that 'more is more' with plenty of well known couples splashing out more than $1 million on their celebrations.

But which have been the most expensive weddings? And can you guess which celeb couple had a pair of thrones to sit on?

Believe it or not, it wasn't the first pair on the list...!

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Prince William and Kate Middleton, 2011 ($34 million)

It's understood that $32 million was spent on security alone, which is understandable when the groom is second in line to the throne.

George and Amal Clooney, 2014 ($4.6 million)

The couple tied the knot in the city of love, Venice with a host of celebrity guests including Matt Damon and Cindy Crawford.

Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise, 2006 ($2 million)

The $50,000 rental fee for Odescalchi Castle outside Rome was waived as a wedding gift to the couple, so what did they spend the rest of the budget on?!

Elton John and David Furnish, 2005 ($1.5 - $2 million)

The couple married in December 2014, with their two sons in attendance. The pair had previously committed to each other in a civil partnership nine years earlier.

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, 2014 ($2.8 million)

It's believed that Fort Belvedere in Florence, Italy, cost the star couple $409,000 to rent. They also had their rehearsal dinner at the Palace of Versailles, along with a personal tour.

Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas, 2000 ($1.5 million)

Despite briefly separating in 2013 the couple remain together to this day, celebrating their 16th wedding anniversary this year.

David and Victoria Beckham, 1999 ($800,000)

Adjusted for inflation the famous English couple's wedding would cost around $1.2 million today. The pair had costume changes, a guest list packed with celebrities and even matching red velvet thrones!

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I got engaged last year and my wedding was scheduled to take place early this year," says Priya Hemnani, a 27-year-old advertising professional. "Since it was the first wedding in my family, we had planned an elaborate affair in Udaipur for a good two weeks. Our families were to stay at a resort. My fiance's parents were not too happy as it was an inter-community wedding. So, my father bore all the expenses of the wedding. A month before the big day, my fiance decided to call it off as he couldn't see his parents unhappy. Not only did it break my heart, but my father suffered a loss of Rs 40-odd lakhs."

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Many like Hemnani, who plan extravagant weddings and end up losing all the money when it is cancelled, can now breathe a sigh of relief as the Supreme Court(SC) has said that the party who breaks the alliance has to pay up for the costs incurred.

It isn't a gender- based decision

Talking about the development, NGO worker Sauleha Agha says, "While it is a welcome move by the SC, what needs to be looked at is whether it is a gender-based one. Contrary to popular belief that only men call off a wedding and face losses, there have been several cases in the past, where men have to go through something similar when women have called off the marriages."

Snehashish Majumdar, a 30-year-old banker, was slated to tie the knot two months ago. He recounts his tale, "It was an arranged set-up and the girl was from Pune. I paid for the engagement function that took place in Mumbai. Two weeks later, her family told us that she didn't want to go ahead with the marriage because she had fallen for someone else. We had to speak to our family lawyer who ensured that they pay back at least 20 per cent of the costs that I had paid for the ceremony. We did not take the matter up to the court, but mutually settled the costs."

The flipside

Veena Chakravarthy, family and relationship therapist, feels that there can be several drawbacks to a decision like this. She elaborates, "There can be genuine cases where a person has unknowingly entered into a matrimonial alliance with someone who's a cheat or for other reasons. And when they find out and want to break away from this alliance, what do they do? Do they still pay for backing out?"

Genuine vs a fake accusation

Bombay High Court advocate Adnan Shaikh clarifies Chakravarthy's questions, "I agree that there have been cases where one realises that the person who he/she is getting married to is a) not mentally stable b) cheating on him/her or c) has other ulterior motive to getting married. It will be unfortunate for the person who has to bear the cost for breaking off the alliance in such a situation."

Ask him if there are clauses that the SC will put forth on such situations and he adds, "Unfortunately the court cannot come up with such exclusions because it is difficult to specify what is a genuine case and what is not. It is up to the court to check all the evidence and proofs, which are submitted to the court and thereby a decision will be made. Further, if the court does not find any issues presented, anyone planning to cancel a wedding post the engagement or 'roka' ceremony, will have to bear the expenses incurred by the other party."

How the ruling came into effect...

This ruling came into force after SC ruled in favour of an aggrieved girl from Thane, whose marriage was called off and penalised the Delhi boy to reimburse the cost incurred during the engagement party by her. The girl's family had filed a case under Section 420 (cheating) of Indian Penal Code (IPC) against the boy and his family in Thane. The father and son sought anticipatory bail. After mediation proceedings, they were asked to pay Rs 1.50 lakh to the girl's parents.

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Anna Davis Blankenship and Adam Kenneth Crump were married at 6:30 p.m. on July 23, 2016 at The Peachtree Club in Atlanta.

The bride is the daughter of Marty and Renee Blankenship of Rome and Lisa and Michael O’Neill of Acworth. She is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Blankenship and the late Elaine Honea, all of Rome. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Crump of Blackshear. He is the grandson of Sonja Crump of Blackshear and the late Kenneth Crump; Annette Diebold of Seneca, South Carolina and the late William Diebold.

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Dr. Lee Mabry of Atlanta performed the double-ring ceremony on the terrace of The Peachtree Club overlooking the skyline of Midtown Atlanta.

Anna was given in marriage by her parents and escorted by her father.

Readings were given by JoBeth Crump and Kady Crump, sisters of the groom. Ushers were Boone Blankenship, brother of the bride, and Kyle Thomas, cousin of the groom.

Morgan Ruggiero of Suwanee was matron of honor. Mary Smith of ­­­­­Bethesda, Maryland, Kristen Harris of Smyrna, Anna Reeps of Atlanta, and Bailey Morgan of Cody, Wyoming were the bridesmaids.

Jamieson Palmer of Rome was best man. Thomas Frasure of Rome, Jeremy Akins of St. Louis, Missouri, Salvatore Guagliardo of Roswell, and Gabe Earnest of Tallahassee, Florida were the groomsmen.

Following their honeymoon to Maui, Hawaii, the couple resides in Tallahassee, Florida.

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My parent’s wedding song was the Theme to Love Story. To this day, the iconic melancholy melody punches me in the gut, squeezes my heart, and puts a lump in my throat - and it’s not because of a nostalgic longing for my parents loving marriage. They divorced after 25 years together; ten years beyond their expiration date, by which point the stench was enough for everyone else to notice.

I’ve occasionally hypothesized this sad song doomed their whole marriage. It feels like a song you’d yearn to listen to when mourning a love story, not celebrating it (like Drunk in Love, Crazy in Love, for instance). In my generous spirit, I tend to give my parents the benefit of the doubt in regard to their questionable romantic song selection skills. On their wedding date (43 years ago today), the only English they knew came from James Bond movies and Beatles songs. Somehow in 1971 USSR, the haunting melody served as the perfect expression of the intensity of their love.* (It was also the song of the year.)

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Great love stories are easier to write than to live and often the greatest love story is plagued with a tragic ending. Romeo and Juliet, Casablanca, Anna Karenina. Across cultures, love speaks an international language where heartbreak can be understood universally. In real life there are variations on love-based woe; heartbreak from death deepens a love story whereas heartbreak from divorce negates it. Every “happily ever after” ends with the unavoidable conclusion where one leaves the other first via death.

For their 15 year anniversary, my father bought my mother one of the only items of jewelry in their quarter century together. It was a round sapphire ring, with baguette diamonds encircling it like sun rays. The gift wasn’t a romantic gesture, but an apologetic one. A few weeks before she had just caught him in an extramarital affair with the whore from the donut shop. After extreme internal psychological torment and self-analysis, she chose to forgive him. This ring was a symbolic gesture of their new life; built on a frail foundation of distrust, perpetual suspicion, and unresolved anger. As a witness to their marriage, I saw a black hole of regret and resentment at the core, where love should have been.

It didn’t come as a surprise when a decade later, my father had found a new girlfriend and moved out, demanding a speedy divorce, which was finalized just in time for her to arrive in his newly purchased house. He was a new man, embarking at a second chance at love and a new life devoid of his past. My mother, the eternal victim has wallowed in various stages of anger, grief, denial, and fake acceptance with a dormant rage for the last twenty years. My father now has an 11-year-old son with his new wife (30 years his junior, no judgment) and my mother is still haunted by the whore from the donut shop from 1988.

I was 26 years old when my parents divorced. I never saw them act lovingly or respectfully towards one another. the most joyful memory my mind can muster is the two of them as dancing drunks at Russian restaurants for all the “round digit” birthday parties. My mother’s 35th, my 18th, my sister’s fake Bat Mitzvah party at 12. Their good times were ALWAYS accompanied by alcohol because they needed to get numb and enter an alternate reality before they could tolerate one another.

As I try to find the heart of every story, I stretch my memory to the 14 years we had together as “a normal family” before the donut shop whore. Sure we were Russian immigrants desperately trying to fit in with heavy accents, poor fashion sense, and weird foods but we were still a relatively ordinary nuclear family, who ate dinner together, went to the beach and united together in our plight to convince Americans not all those with an “s-k-y” at the end of their last names were Communists. These are the memories formed in my developmental years which buried themselves deep in my mind caves, in a section I can’t erase and these are the memories which inadvertently cause me to well up during the Theme from Love Story.

As a divorcee myself, I wonder if my son ever longs to see his father and me together, like a “normal family.” He was three years old when we separated; eleven years have passed. I’m remarried and he has a six-year-old stepsister. I’ve asked him if he ever secretly wishes to see his biological parents together and he looks at me like I’m crazy or stupid or both. “Um, NO. I can’t picture you with anyone but Andrew,” he says.

“That’s good,” I think while feeling secret gratitude that I have built him a [pseudo] “normal family,” which doesn’t leave him craving for an imaginary one that could have been.

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What’s a bride with ombré hair to wear on her wedding day? Well, white certainly wouldn’t do. So a young California bride customized a colorful gown for her nuptials earlier this summer.

Popular on Reddit, 24-year-old artist Taylor Ann said that she airbrushed her gown to get a multilayered effect after experimenting with the dyeing process for a while. She began with a secondhand gown that was too big, had it altered and then went to town with her spray paint.

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“I love soooo many colors, I wanted to incorporate as many as I could,” she toldWeddingColors.net of her wedding’s palette. “My idea was to do a sunset but in the woods, so yellow for the sun, orange, red, purple all the way into navy blue for the night sky. Then we accented with white to keep it weddingish.”

Dip-dyed and ombre wedding gowns have been a trend for quite a few years now. In 2002,Gwen Stefani’s rock star pink gown made headlines. In 2012, Anne Hathaway’s custom Valentino gown was a more understated blush that looked like a trick of lighting in some photos. The multicolored gowns that hit full swing on the runway by 2013 were actually a retro move — after all, most brides didn’t wear white at all until Queen Victoria’s wedding in 1840.

Though traditional favorites like Vera Wang and Reem Acra have been offering more of those subtle blush gowns, others are getting bolder. Christian Siriano’s Spring 2017 collection includes a pink ombré that might give viewers a sudden craving for strawberry sherbet.

Of course, couture isn’t the most practical option for most brides, and it once again goes against the ultimate goal of “personalization,” which so many couples these days are looking for. The Internet is littered with instructions for DIY dip-dyeing, but unless you’re experienced with dyeing fabric — or have a few spare gowns lying around — this seems like a very risky endeavor. It is, however, a great idea for sprucing up a secondhand gown, as Taylor Ann herself was doing.

The less crafty can instead send their gowns to professionals, such as Alteria, who know how to treat different fabrics to get just the right color without destroying delicate lace or silk.

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A newly-married couple who were desperate to play their wedding day DVD to their blind son have thanked the Chad after the discs finally arrived - nine months after the happy event.

Kirsty McKnight and her husband Jay had contacted Mansfield-based Cause & Effect Media, who shot the wedding, almost weekly but nothing arrived.

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It was not until the Chad contacted the Newgate Lane business that the couple eventually received the discs at the weekend.

The happy couple tied the knot at Ringwood Hall on November 27 last year, and booked for a professional to record the event made through the online offer site Groupon, setting the couple back almost £400.

But they wanted to play the DVD to their 10-year-old son Bradley, and for Jay’s grandparents who were unable to attend the wedding through illness.

“The money means absolutely nothing to me,” said 28-year-old Kirsty, from Kirkby.

“It’s not just a DVD of our special day, it means so much more. Bradley can’t look back at our photos and remember like everyone else, that is why I was miserable beyond belief that something we would have cherished for him had not been given to us.

“Jay’s grandfather has dementia and was too poorly to attend our wedding and his grandmother had to stay with him so neither did she.

“I contacted Cause & Effect at least once week, sometimes more, to ask about it.

“He only sent them when he did because of our contact with the Chad, 100 per cent.”

Owner David Bore sent a statement apologising.

He said: “Our business has been trading for over 15 years and wedding films have been a core element to the business.

“In 2015 we entered into contracts with Groupon, unfortunately there were teething problems initially.

“Our work flow more than doubled at an accelerated rate and we were unable to maintain the same level of service.

“In 2016 we made changes to our approach to manage the increased work flow at the reduced rates.

“We have apologised to Mrs McKnight for her wait.”

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