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Wayne Rooney and Coleen McLoughlin will tie the knot this week in what's set to be the celebrity wedding to outshine all others
Wayne Rooney and Coleen McLoughlin will tie the knot this week in what's set to be the celebrity wedding to outshine all others
12:55am UK, Wednesday June 11, 2008
The dress alone is costing £200,000, so where does that leave celebrity-worshipping brides-to-be without quite so much cash to spend?
If the leaked plans are anything to go by then the Rooney nuptials will make Posh and Becks' wedding look like a budget working men's club do.
It's rumoured to be costing them £5 million.
That includes the stag and hen extravaganzas, the five private jets to take the guests to the rumoured venue, the ornate marble-floored Villa Durazzo in Italy, £100,000 wedding rings, Westlife and of course, the staple of any self respecting wedding, rare butterflies in a box for each guest to release.
Oh and the London Gospel Choir. Phew.
They'll get £2.5 million from OK! magazine for their efforts - a celeb wedding record. Posh and Becks got a paltry £1 million.
Wedding planner Leigh Thomson is Director of Crème Wedding Design. She's used to dealing with big budgets but says the celebrity influence is making them bigger.
"We get couples who want the wow factor. People are influenced by celebrity weddings. They'll come to you and say I loved Liz Hurley's wedding or I hated so-and-so's - they use it as a benchmark.
"I think budgets are going up and are being pushed further - the desire to have all these things is going up."
Sarah Dunn, 24, is getting married next year. It sounds like it'll be a traditional, very nice wedding: 150 guests, local church, reception in a castle, champagne all round. But it's setting them back more than £100,000.
Luckily, Sarah's fiancé is a professional footballer who, to her credit, she doesn't wish to name.
Her dress is custom-made by designer Jenny Packham, likely to cost in the early thousands, and they've got exclusive use of a castle in Herefordshire, likely to cost many more thousands.
Sarah admits to being influenced by celebrity weddings: "I loved Eva Longoria's beautiful wedding dress. I tried on a dress by the same designer. We're staying as far away from Jordan and Posh and Becks as possible!
"I'm very lucky to be having a luxury wedding but I know people who are getting married who say they'll still be paying it off in years to come. People do get very competitive."
As for Wayne and Colleen's extravagance, Sarah says good for them: "They've got the money. But I suppose they could pull the reins in. It is a bit over the top."
Once splashed over the pages of OK! the newlywed Rooneys are likely to set a new bar for nuptials that'll make the wedding industry even bigger than it already is. Butterflies beware.