How much do you think George and Amal spent on their four-day wedding extravaganza?
$5 million? $12 million?
Wrong. They spent the teeny tiny sum of $1.8 million.
What a bargain! Petty cash. Pocket money. Change from the back of the couch.
People magazine (who are obviously best friends with the newlyweds, judging by the 26 page ‘insider’ spread of photos from the wedding reception) reported that the wedding cost a lot less than all those crazy estimated reports that placed the sum anywhere from $5 million to $12 million.
And contradictory to ‘reports’ that had Amal’s family traditionally covering the cost, apparently chivalrous George footed the whole bill himself.
Here’s some wedding budget maths:
Shut down Venice for four days
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Book 85 rooms at the Hotel Cipriani
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The Groom’s $5000 Armani suit
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The Bride’s $380,000 Oscar de la Renta dress
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A cake that looks taller than George and fancier than the Queen
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iPods for all the guests
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ONLY $1.8 MILLION.
Pfft. Easily afforded.
Here’s photos from the dirt cheap celebration:
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Who cares? It's no-ones business but theirs how much they spend on their own wedding. They both do plenty of good works for charities, some of which will benefit from the presumably huge amount of money paid for the rights to the wedding photographs. And Venice may have closed down for 4 days, but I'll bet the city council calculated the costs very carefully and charged accordingly. Not to mention that they'll benefit hugely by couples coming to wed in Venice over the next few years, as well as ordinary tourists. Who wouldn't want to get married in the most romantic city in the world where George Clooney married his beautiful bride Amal? Win/Win all round I would think.
Me! I don't want to. I have had two chances to visit Venice ten years apart and by passed it both times. I preferred to stay in Verona and Lake Como instead :) Happy both times.
Ah, but to sit at a little table by the Grand Canal and drink a glass Moet et Chandon and eat an Italian salad and watch the sun go down and light the water like molten gold. And then all the little lamps go on and the gondolas go by with their little lanterns bobbing. And to ride the ferries through the canals, looking at all the glorious houses and seeing where Marco Polo lived. I can relive these moments forever. Mind you, Verona and Lake Como are lovely, but Venice and Florence took my heart, Milan took my money (clothes and shoes) and Roma made my spirit sing.