Held at the luxury Moscow restaurant and banqueting venue Safisa,
which was decked out in wall-to-wall fresh flowers, the wedding set a
new bar for extravagance.
The young bride arrived in a beaded Elie Saab gown, whose wedding
dresses range from £5,000-£18,000. Her dress was imported from Paris and
reportedly weighed 25lb (almost two stone) because
of the huge train and heavy embellishment and the bride needed the
assistance of several people to carry her train and help her walk
upstairs.
With a tight bodice, long sleeves and a full skirt cascading in folds
to the floor, the gown was pure fairy tale – and came with a
floor-length veil and bejewelled handbag to match.
Khadija’s look was completed with a diamond tiara and whopping diamond pendant around her neck.
Meanwhile, guests travelled to the grand nuptials in a fleet of
luxury cars including Rolls Royces which were seen lined up outside the
venue ahead of the ceremony.
The entertainment also did not come cheap. Jennifer Lopez – who was
reported to have been paid $1million for singing for Gurbanguly
Berdimuhamedov, the president of Turkemenistan in 2013 – jetted in to
give the moneyed crowd an energetic performance in a series of skimpy
outfits.
Enrique Iglesias also took to the stage to perform Bailando, casually
dressed in jeans, a T shirt and baseball cap. Sting also performed and
was joined by a group of young girls and women for his song Desert Rose.
The couple’s 600 guests dined on European cuisine and sushi and the
wedding cake was a lavish eight tier creation, decorated with elaborate
white icing and layers of pink floral garlands and topped with a star
and crescent as a show of the couple’s Muslim faith.
But the extravagance of the occasion is surely fitting for the son of
Kazakh-born Mikhail Gutseriev, a Muslim born in the Caucasus, who is
thought to be worth $6.2 billion (£4.3billion).
The self-made man who now calls Russia home ensured he gave his public school-educated son a day to remember.
Said, who was born in 1988, was educated at Harrow and then the University of Oxford where he studied archaeology and geology.
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