Salma Hayek's $3.5 Million Wedding
Jun 27, 2008 AT 09:03 am
Yes, the amount is excessive. But IS IT when your husband-to-be is a billionaire? Who's looking at price tags when you have all those zeros at the end of your bank account statement?
Salma Hayek and Francois-Henri Pinault are planning a spring wedding and reports are claiming that they couple is spending an estimated $3.5 million. Sources tell the National Enquirer that the 46-year-old French boss of fashion houses Gucci, Yves St. Laurent and Balenciaga will dig deep for a five-day-long wedding ceremony in St. Tropez, France.
"It took Francois over a year to get Salma to agree to marry him, and he doesn’t want to spare any expense. Francois basically gave her the key to the vault and said, ‘Go wild.’"
Imagine someone handing you a credit card and telling you to "Go Wild". I don't know what I would do. So dangerous!
The tabloid claims the pair will fly their friends in on private jets; put them up in luxury resorts; spend $500,000 on a wedding dress and almost $1 million on flowers.
Photos by Bauer Griffin
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that's ridiculous. you know how many animals that could save? there is no need to have that big of a wedding.
SHE LOOKS GREAT.
What a waste.
Remember when Brad and Jen spent $1 million (or was it more?) on their wedding? I bet they wish they'd done something else with all that money now. I think a lot of people forget in the excitement of planning that there's more to a marriage than the wedding day. It just seems especially true when it comes to celebrities who fork over huge amounts of dough for acres of flowers and the three designer dresses that the bride wants to change into throughout the course of the day!
So much more good can come from that money. Let's hope this doesn't end in divorce or that would be even more of a shame.
I have nothing but love for Salma, if it were any of us marrying a billionaire, we'd be planning muiltimillions $ weddings too. Much love Salma and I hope you enjoy a long and happy marriage, if these marriage rumors are indeed true!
Um, not everyone!
I would't. Thats just wasteful. If its true I hope they have a great time but really, thats just too much to spend on a day.
Considering their net worth, a $3.5 million wedding is hardly going to over-stretch them. I say if you've can afford it, go for it! I'm sure they do good deeds for other people with their wealth, most people do!
that is disgusting. Isn't she part of some campaign for getting kids in 3rd world countries vaccines..... I can't believe that she would spend such an extreme amount of money on a wedding and not give the money to that cause.
>>Passerby (not verified) said: that is disgusting. Isn't she part of some campaign for getting kids in 3rd world countries vaccines..... I can't believe that she would spend such an extreme amount of money on a wedding and not give the money to that cause.<< How do you know that she hasn't equalled that amount in any causes she may believe in? Besides, it's their money to do with what they want. Do you have someone looking over you, telling you how you should spend your money?
Let her have her wedding. All you critics sit here and complain about what celebs should do with their money. How many of you volunteer in your communities or local churches?
I volunteer and have for years. I still think its excessive. If it were my own relative and not a celeb nothing would change except I'd say it to her face. She can have her multi-million dollar wedding just like I can have an opinion.
What an ignorant question: How many of you volunteer in your communities or local churches? You don't have to be a millionaire to make a difference in your community. I volunteered for Big Brothers Big Sisters and I donate money to my sister's basketball program to help fund the registration fees for those kids who can't afford it. Weddings can cost millions, but marriage is priceless. Spending that much on a wedding is just plain irresponsible. Anyway, I just hope it's not true ($3.5 M wedding). Disgusting is right.
Eh, who cares?
I'm not sure if I believe this story...I mean it came from the National Enquirer, need I say more?
There are many ways to contribute to your own community and the communities of others which do not require money, by giving of your time, knowledge, experience, etc. In fact they are probably more genuine ways in that it is easy to throw money in the direction of a charity (tax deductible of course), and let others do the actual work. However, for someone to spend such a vast amount of money on their wedding, even if they (or their spouse-to-be) has billions, speaks of self-aggrandizement and narcissism in the extreme. To so brazenly and publicly spend money on one's wedding when there is so much need and poverty in the world is, as a previous blogger has stated, disgusting. The irony is, that no matter how much you spend on the wedding, it will still not guarantee a happy marriage. However, I guess Ms Hayek will get the publicity and noteriety she obviously seeks regardless.
Oh-oh what kind of viewers do we have here? Sounds like an angry bunch of wannabees. Couples spend and overspend on their weddings. Whether their budget is 500 dollars of 500 million dollars. It is their day, their desire and not yours. If you are happy with a cracker barrel ring and a quickie at City Hall that's your right and privilege. To moan about an individual to whom a million is like a $100.00 bill to us is ignorant. All this ranting and raving about this one of hundreds of expenditures of this caliber in the world of entertainment, Royalty or Heiresses is so tellingly envious. You may think you are masking your jealousy by branding and imprimatur of "social activist" but this is jealousy and hopefully undetected sub contextual prejudice. If you want to make comparisons, of how other people's money should be spent (Imagine that) I suggest you start with your friends who do drugs. Now that's a waste !!!..or is it..LOL ..also stop spending stupid money on manicures and pedicures, and expensieve handbags, and minks and all the other "irresponsible" things you spend money on. Get a life please, this site should be light and fun, I like the layout!!
..Aww so much need and poverty in the world? next week take $20.00 out of your pay and find a needy person and offer to alleviate their suffering. Then keep doing it..you won't be so bitter about what other people have..I give all the time..to people who ask, exception: white men with blond hair and blue eyes! can't get a job in the the good ol' U.S. Of A? Hmmmm doesn't seem plausible. They have no barriers and no excuse..they can be taken care of by their own. So I wish they would stop begging..women in particular and women of color because they have a soft spot. They never asked their "own" I have noticed that and it annoys me. As a Latina I am defending Selma,who married one of the owners of Louis Vuitton!! Go Selma, it's your b 'day..and take all his money ,honey..yeah!!
"Undetected sub-contextual prejudice"!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Did you come up with that one yourself or read it somewhere? You claim to want the site to be light and fun, yet your two rants are the furthest from that of all entries. Firstly you accuse people who see this sort of expenditure on a wedding as excessive of being jealous. You then assume their friends are drug addicts. You imagine they spend all their days having manicures, pedicures, buying handbags, etc. Your second entry is where you show your true colours. (Please forgive the pun as it is not intended.) You reveal yourself as a racist, and your last remarks indicate that your support of Ms Hayek is more to do with her being Latina, like you claim to be. You then make a joke out of her taking all his money. Believe me honey, he'd have it well and truly protected. People who blog on this site have every right to express their opinion, but throwing around insults and racist comments in your almost incoherent rants is FAR from being light and fun. You sound like one bitter person. Now it's my turn to speculate. Maybe "the good ol' US of A" hasn't been quite as kind to you because of your ethnicity as you would have liked.
but u can go to the millionaireloves d ot co m to make friends with the mature and wealthy singles``` promise they will never try to aviod u``although they are beautiful sexy``and rich`` some of them even do a lot of thing to solve the poverty in the world``
3.5 million on a wedding and they'll probably be divorced in a couple of years. Jeez...it's not like she's Princess Diana!
Spending that kind of money on a wedding isn't like flushing it down the toilet. What about the hundreds, maybe thousands of people whose livelihoods will be enriched by this extravaganza? From flower growers to wait staff to musicians to caterers... the list is endless. Salma and her wedding may save a few people's mortgages. Put that in your altruistic pipe and smoke it.
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