Finding the perfect wedding dress is every bride’s dream. After all, most of us have been dreaming of the perfect dress since we were little girls.
And as little girls, never did we think about the budget! Today, the average price of a wedding dress is $16,000. But that can vary depending on region and the custom details you add. What if you had an endless budget to spend on your Big Day?
Flowercard looked at the most expensive wedding dresses in history, focusing specifically on celebrities and members of the royal families from around the globe. Flowercard then calculated how much each garment would be worth in 2020, using the US Inflation Calculator. Based on the research, do you have any idea who had the most expensive wedding dresses of all time? The answers might surprise you—they surprised us!
From left: Photos courtesy of Philadelphia Museum of Art: Vogue/Photography by Bob Metelus and Erica Rodriguez; AOL
The top 3 most expensive celebrity wedding dresses belong to tennis champ Serena Williams, who took the #1 spot with her $3.5 million ball gown. Australian pop singer and heiress to the Swarovski crystal empire, Victoria Swarovski’s $1 million dress, which was adorned with 500,000 crystals and weighed roughly 100 pounds, ranked the second most expensive. The third most expensive celebrity wedding dress was that of Grace Kelly, whose timeless 1956 high-neck, long-sleeve gown featured thousands of hand-sewn seed pearls and 125-year-old lace from Brussels. It continues to set the example of bridal elegance.
