What a $2 Million Wedding Looks Like
Liam Beliveau
So, what does a $2 Million Wedding Really Look Like? The recent nuptials of Russian Billionaire’s son, Sargis Karapetyan to Salome Kintsurashvili, tell the story:
- The wedding is estimated to have cost more than $2 million
- The bride wore three different couture dresses, including a $35,000 Elie Saab gown and jewelry worth $200,000.
- The amazing venue featured thousands of flowers and fairy lights
- Marron 5 played at the wedding, costing between $500,000 and $800,000
- A host of Russian and Armenian popstars and TV personalities also provided entertainment
The son of an Armenian billionaire and his bride held in Moscow may be one of the most lavish weddings to ever occur in the Russian Federation.
The Moscow-based celebration was attended by the president of Armenia, Serzh Sargisyanu, and was held at the famous Safisa.
Sargis Karapetyan is the son of Samvel Karapetyan, who is number 28 on the Forbes Russian Rich List.
The elder Karapetyan lives in Moscow, but is originally from Armenia. He made his fortune from the real estate firm Tashir Group, which manages 33 shopping center, four office complexes, and eight hotels across Russia.
Karapetyan enjoys a net worth of $4 billion, so an extravagant wedding was a given for his son.
How extravagant? Well, Maroon 5 played, and that cost somewhere between $500,000 and $800,000 for the night.
Other entertainers included: Ukranian pop singer Vera Brezhneva, singers Alla Pugacheva, Valery Meladzem, Grigory Leps, Sofia Rotaru, Nikolay Baskov, Timati and Dima Bilan, and pop singer Philip Kirkorov (who interrupted his tour to perform).
Personalities from Russian television also attended including Andrey Malakhov, while presenter Tanya Gevorkyan looked stunning in a green strapless gown by Oscar de la Renta as she posed in the fairytale surroundings.
The bride wore three different couture gowns, with Elie Saab’s wedding gown as the centerpiece. The starting price of a couture gown by Saab is $35,000.
She changed into a lace gown by Alessandra Rich and also a more traditional wedding gown. Her accessories included the Tiffany Savoy headpiece, which was worn by Carey Mulligan in the film, “The Great Gatsby”.
The diamond headpiece costs in excess of $20,000.
The bride changed into a lace, off the shoulder Alessandra Rich dress for the official photos, and then into a floor length dress and head piece for the official Armenian wedding dance.
Folk dancers from Armenia and Georgia performed to reflect both the bride and groom’s heritage.
As guests entered the reception, they walked through a forest replete with flowers.
There was a nine-tier cake covered in flowers, standing on a large table in the center of the room. The cake was six meters high, created by pastry chef Iyad Abusharaf, a world renown chef that once worked for the Prince of Kuwait.
Guests on social media commented that they had never seen a wedding cake so tall that it was getting in the way of the chandeliers before.
To complete it all, the room was bathed in purple light, giving everything an incredible storybook glow.
Many of the guests shared incredible photos and video of the night on social media under the hashtag #sarkissalome, causing widespread interest in the nuptials.
Check out some Instagram photos from the extravaggant wedding below:
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