From designer wedding gowns to ornate flower arrangements, the weddings of the wealthy are filled with extreme spending. And the wedding receptions are just as over the top as the ceremony.
In 2010, the Dallas Bridal Fair added their own luster to a wedding cake on display.
The nine tiered masterpiece was created by Dallas' Delicious Cake in conjunction with the Dallas Gold and Silver Exchange. Covered in ivory fondant and detailed with scrolling lines of silver ‘luster dust', the cake weighed over 160 pounds. Strings of diamonds were draped along the nine tiers and as a final touch large diamonds and sapphires were placed along the base of the cake. In total the cake was decorated in 1,200 carats of diamonds and sapphires. With a total price of $1.3 million the cake served 320 people. That's about $3,125 a slice!
Costing approximately $40,000 was Liza Minnelli and David Gest’s wedding cake.
With a wedding party consisting of Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Jackson, Liza Minnelli's wedding cake had to be over the top. A towering 12-tiers high, the cake was black and white with red accents. There were sterling silver leafed stripes along the twelve tiers as well as red and purple sugar roses.
The details of Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky’s wedding were top-secret right up until the moments before the couple exchanged vows.
Even the wedding cake designers and owners of La Tulipe Desserts, Maarten and Frances Steenman were kept a secret from the public as they whipped up Chelsea Clinton's dream cake. Made of a gluten-free flour blend the vanilla sponge cake, was layered with dark chocolate mousse. Standing at 4 feet tall, the cake consisted of nine tiers all covered in vanilla fondant. Each tier was then decorated with a variety of roses, calla lilies, and orchids. In total there were approximately 1,000 sugar flowers and the cake weighed a massive 500 pounds. Cost $11,000
Donald Trump and Melania Knauss’s Grand Marnier Wedding Cake
Nothing is good enough for "The Donald," but perhaps his extravagant orange Grand Marnier chiffon wedding cake celebrating his marriage to Melania Knauss was just the ticket. The seven-tiered confection was five feet high, 200 pounds, 32 inches in diameter, covered with 3,000 white icing roses, and filled with Grand Marnier buttercream. The cake took two months for pastry chef Cedric Barbaret to create. On top of all that, wedding guests were treated to individual cakes filled with chocolate truffle and decorated with a single rose on top. Donald Trump is always "thinking big."
Want to see what $52 million worth of wedding cake looks like?
Cake, a bakery in Chester, England, has created what is reportedly the world's most expensive wedding cake, valued at £34 million (that's about $52.7 million). The eight-tiered confection is decorated with more than 4,000 diamonds and will be on display (then eaten!) at the National Gay Wedding Show in Liverpool
What’s the best way to add a lot of elegance and bling to a wedding cake?
Just add Swarovski crystals. That's what Ron Ben-Israel, the highly acclaimed cake designer of New York, New York, did when asked to create a cake for the movie Sex and the City 2. With over 4,000 individual crystals provided to Ron Be-Israel from Swarovski, he and his team set into creating a wedding cake that was over the top and mimicked ‘frozen water' and the reflection of light. With these ideas in mind, Ron Ben Israel first whipped together a pure vanilla cake, which is called a White Cloud cake. Then the cake was assembled into five tiers from which delicate strands of Swarovski crystals were hung. The cake was placed on top of a custom acrylic stand, bringing the cake's total height to 6 feet 4 inches. The sparkling masterpiece served 485 guest and took over 450 hours to create. Cost $32,000
The world’s most expensive cake may look tasty, but was it?
If this glitzy wedding cake's creators are to be believed, no one ever knew.
Unveiled in 2006 at the Luxury Bridal Show on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, the expensive cake was created by cake designers Nahid La Patisserie Artistique along with jewelers Mimi So. That's rightit's decked with jewels both exclusive and priceless.
The diamond-studded masterpiece was said to be worth $20 million at the time.
Princess Diana and Prince Charles’s $40,000 Flowered Wedding Cake
Royal icons Princess Diana and Prince Charles hosted a memorable wedding in 1981, spending over $40,000 on just the cake. The princess could not just have one wedding cake; the matrimonial day included 27 wedding cakes and a five-foot-tall main cake that supposedly took 14 weeks to prepare. The wedding cake, designed by David Avery of the Royal Naval Cookery School, was decorated with roses, lilies of the valley, and orchids, along with the Prince's family's royal coat of arms. Of course a duplicate was made, just in case. P.S., $40,000 then is worth over $100,000 now.
Prince William and Kate Middleton’s $80,000 Royal Wedding Cake
Prince William and Kate Middleton definitely went all out for their magnificent wedding with an eight-tiered fruit cake with white icing and 900 sugar paste flowers ringing in at a royal $80,000. Designed by Fiona Cairns, the elegant cake included 17 different kinds of symbolic flowers. Displayed on the seventh tier, the English rose, Scottish thistle, Welsh daffodil, and Irish shamrock represented the home nations. On the sixth tier were the elaborately scrolled initials of the couple encircled by sugar lily of the valley flowers, symbolizing sweetness and humility.
When Kim Kardashian married NBA star Kris Humphries, the reality star made sure the wedding cake looked almost as glamorous as she did.
The eight foot tall cake was created by cake designer Patrick Hansen. Weighing in at nearly 600 pounds, the chocolate-chip marble cake was decorated with butter cream frosting. While the height of the cake was extravagant, the colors of the cake were not. The tiers alternated between black and white, giving the wedding cake a simplistic modern feel. In the end, the cake was far too large to cut and sheet cakes were cut and served to the guests. Cost $20,000
