Jaiyeorie — What’s happening, and why it matters.: Most lavish #wedding – with performances by J Lo, Sting and Enrique Iglesias, an £18,000 wedding dress and a fleet of Rolls-Royces.

Said Gutseriev, 28 and Khadija Uzhakhovs, 20 got hitched costing $1 billion.

The groom’s billionaire father Mikhail Gutseriev,is a self-made billionaire from oil and real estate, and the groom Said is one of his two children. He’s the 16th richest person in Russia, and 205th in the world, according to Forbes.

Mikhael Gutseriev, the oil and media tycoon worth £4.3 billion ($6.2 billion), splashed out on an extravagant reception for 600 guests at a luxury Moscow restaurant.
The walls were covered in fresh flowers, there was a nine tiered cake and a spectacular fireworks display.

According to The Sun, the young bride arrived in a beaded gown with a billowing skirt by Elie Saab, whose wedding dresses range from £5,000-£18,000.
Her dress was imported from Paris and reportedly weighed 25 lbs (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.
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 singer, who performed her hits If You Had My Love, Dance Again and Get Right went through several outfit changes including a black tailored suit and a bejewelled leotard – not to mention a sparkly silver jumpsuit.

The groom is Harrow and Oxford educated and the bride is currently in school to be a dentist.

Daily Mail reports that it took 4 years to find the groom an ideal bride, who had to be a virgin and low-key. She doesn’t have an Instagram account, and her other social media doesn’t have many photos.

But in Russia there has been something of a backlash against the lavish ceremony – following a report by Russian Tatler that the bride from an ‘ordinary’ family was chosen after a lengthy search for a woman to fit ‘all the strict demands, to be beautiful, a virgin, shy and not public’, meaning not seeking the limelight.

‘The quest for the ideal bride for Said Gutseriyev went for long four years,’ said Tatler, explaining the conditions that had to be met.

This sparked a heated online debate, with comments apparently from female readers saying: ‘So she is 19 and she is a virgin? What village did she come from?’ and ‘A virgin at 19? And it took them just four years to find her? That was quick.’

‘Khadizha is a future dentist. Her page in VK (a social media site) has no personal pictures, but instead has several images of how to do local anaesthetics,’ reported Tatler.

Now for the wedding – the bride wore a couture dress from Elie Saab and Daily Mail states it’s rumoured to have cost $1 million.