Top 10 Guinness World Wedding Records
1. The Largest Wedding Cake
The largest wedding cake in the world was made by the chief cooks, who worked at the Mohegan Sun Hotel in the USA. This happened on February 8, 2004. The cake, which weighed over 6,818 tonnes, was presented at the New England Bridal Showcase. It had 7 tiers and could feed nearly 59000 guests.
2. The Largest Wedding Bouquet
Can you imagine a wedding bouquet, which is about 60.9 m long? This bouquet was made in Canada on September 6, 2003. More than 1500 flowers (carnations and roses) were used to create it. The bride, whose name is Christa Rasanayagam, held this unbelievable bouquet during the whole wedding ceremony.
3. The Largest TV Audience for a Wedding
This wedding ceremony between Lady Diana Spencer and Charles, the Prince of Wales, took place on July 29, 1981. It gathered the largest TV audience in the world’s history. It is reported that more than 750 million people from about 75 countries have watched it.
4. The Largest Wedding Underwater
The largest underwater wedding ceremony took place in Italy on June 12, 2010. Francesca Colombi and Giampiero Giannoccaro (the bride and the groom) decided to use the services of the company MARES S.p.A., which organized this event. 261 divers took part in this ceremony held at the Morcone beach.
5. The Most Expensive Wedding Dress
The most expensive wedding dress in the world was designed in the United States of America specially for the Luxury Brands Lifestyle Bridal Show by Renee Strauss and Martin Katz Jewellers. This event took place on February 26, 2006. It was estimated that the cost of this fancy wedding gown, which was decorated with 150 carats' diamonds, equalled $12 million.
6. The Most Expensive Wedding
The wedding ceremony between Vanisha Mittal and Amit Bhatia took place in France in 2004. Vanisha was a daughter of a billionaire Lakshmi Mittal. This event was held for six days and cost over $55 million. Such world-famous stars as Kylie Minogue and Shah Rukh Khan entertained the guests, who were invited to this ceremony.
7. The Largest Wedding Banquet
This largest wedding reception was organized in India on September 7, 1995. Jayalalitha Jayaram, a former politician and a movie star, invited over 150000 guests to visit the wedding of her foster son. She said that it was the best way to demonstrate her good attitude to her adopted son.
8. The Longest Wedding Dress Train
The world's longest train of the wedding dress was designed by Lichel van den Ende in Netherlands on 22 December 2009. It was as long as 2488.65 m.
9. Most Bridesmaids to One Bride
The number of bridesmaids present at the wedding between Christa Rasanayagam and Arulanantham Suresh Joachim in Canada, equaled 79 (including people aged 1 to 79 years old). This event happened in 2003.
10. The Longest Wedding Veil
How long is the longest wedding veil in the world? The veil, which was worn by the bride (Sandra Mechleb) at the wedding ceremony in Lebanon on October 18, 2009, was as long as 11,017 ft.
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