According to hollywoodlifereporter!
From compensation for TV rights to a free cake and wedding dress, Kim & Kris prove it’s good business to get hitched!
Kim Kardashian & Kris Humphries are so happy they’re married, but we’re sure their joy is matched by the huge pay day they received for their Aug. 20 nuptials!
Kim, 30, and Kris, 26, sold just about every element of their wedding to the highest bidder and landed some high-priced swag as well, the New York Post reports. The paper even shows an incredible breakdown of how the wedding benefited Kim and Kris financially, and we’re sure you’ll be shocked!
Payments the couple received:
From compensation for TV rights to a free cake and wedding dress, Kim & Kris prove it’s good business to get hitched!
Kim Kardashian & Kris Humphries are so happy they’re married, but we’re sure their joy is matched by the huge pay day they received for their Aug. 20 nuptials!
Kim, 30, and Kris, 26, sold just about every element of their wedding to the highest bidder and landed some high-priced swag as well, the New York Post reports. The paper even shows an incredible breakdown of how the wedding benefited Kim and Kris financially, and we’re sure you’ll be shocked!
Payments the couple received:
- $15 million plus profit for four-hour, two-part wedding special on E!
- $2.5 million for exclusive photos with PEOPLE
- $300,000 for exclusive engagement announcement with PEOPLE
- $100,000 for exclusive rights to bridal shower with Britain’s OK! mag
- $50,000 to have bachelorette party at Tao in Las Vegas
- $15,000 to $20,000 Hansen’s Bakery wedding cake
- $20,000 Vera Wang wedding dress and fittings
- $40,000 for two more Vera Wang evening dresses
- $400,000 in Perrier Jouet Champagne
- $150,000 in hair and makeup for photo shoots and TV “home video”
- $10,000 in Lehr & Black wedding invitations
According to another website..
The carat-count on her "I do" jewelry, the price of her dresses, the ad rates E! will earn.
The carat-count on her "I do" jewelry, the price of her dresses, the ad rates E! will earn.
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$100,000: Ad rates E! could charge for Oct. 9 and 10th special Kim's Fairytale Wedding: A Kardashian Event.
$2.5 Million: Price of Lorraine Schwartz headpiece she wore to walk down the aisle.
65 carats: Size of Schwartz headpiece, an homage to Audrey Hepburn, according to People magazine.
20.5 carats: Size of Schwartz engagement ring, which cost $2 million, but she received at a fraction of the price, as The Hollywood Reporter detailed.
$10 million: Cost of Schwartz jewelry she wore on her wedding day, which she called her "something borrowed."
$5 million: Worth of her 28-carat earrings.
$200,000: Cost of Kardashian's wedding band, which consists of 15 carats of emerald-cut diamonds.
$150,000: Price of Kardsahian's hair, makeup and grooming, as reported by Us Weekly.
$10,000: Price of Lehr & Black designed crystal-embellished black-and-white engraved gatefold invitations.
$1.5 Million: Price People magazine paid for licensing fees for the photos and exclusive access.
11 pages: Length of People's spread on the couple.
3: Number of custom-made Vera Wang gowns Kardashian wore.
5 Million: Estimated number of total viewers for Kim's Fairytale Wedding: A Kardashian Event. By comparison, sister Khloe's wedding to Lamar Odom earned 3.2 million viewers in November 2009, making it the most-watched broadcast in E!'s history at the time.
8 Million: Estimated number of people who would have tuned in if the wedding were aired live.
9.3 Million: Kardashian's Twitter Followers
200,000: Circulation of a magazine like Brides, which is why vendors were eager for publicity for Kardashian's wedding.
When Casting Husbands, Kim Kardashian’s First Choice Wasn’t Kris Humphries
It may cause a reaction like this to hear, but there's talk Kris Humphries was not Kim Kardashian's first choice of trophy husband.
Word on the street is that E! executives approached Danilo Gallinari of the Knicks to see if he wanted to start dating her ahead of the Kourtney & Kim Take New York debut – promising him fun things like intense media scrutiny.
He apparently agreed to meet her but said no to TV, so they dumped him as an option and started trawling through the New Jersey Nets line-up.
Kim and Kris married nine months later.
But just because there's a possibility it was an arranged marriage doesn't mean it can't blossom into one of the most enduring showmances of our time, right?
Call me a romantic, but just look at what John Travolta and Kelly Preston have achieved.
In a move that's surprising only in the amount of time it took to happen, Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries are reportedly divorcing just 72 days after their wedding. Let's break down their incredibly expensive and extremely short marriage, by the numbers.
Cost of the Kardashian wedding: $10 million, henceforth referred to as 1 Kardashian
Amount Kim and Kris made on their wedding, through various media partnerships: $18 million, or 1.8 Kardashians
Cost of the Khloe Kardashian/Lamar Odom wedding: $1 million, or 0.1 Kardashian (sorry Khloe)
Cost per day of the Kardashian/Humphries marriage, according to TMZ: $138,888 (this is just wedding costs — who knows how much they were spending on rent, butt-exfoliants, and other necessaries)
Average cost of first three months of marriage counseling: $1200
Odds that the Kardashian/Humphries marriage would end before the NBA season started, as given by BetOnLine.com: slightly better than 50/50
GDP of the island nation of Niue: $10 million, or 1 Kardashian
Cost of Kim's wedding earrings: $5 million
Cost of cubic zirconia replicas of Kim's earrings, available at Eve's Addiction: $48
Amount People reportedly paid for exclusive wedding photos: $2.5 million
Current cost of issue of People containing wedding photos, on eBay: $5.99, or 5.99 × 10-7 Kardashians
Cost of Kim's wedding headpiece, which kind of looks like the one the princess wore in The Neverending Story: $2.5 million
Total domestic gross of The Neverending Story: $20 million, or 2 Kardashians
US national debt, in Kardashians: 1,493,957.56
US median household income, as of 2009: $50,221, or 0.005 Kardashians (this is also the amount Kim was paid to have a bachelorette party at a Vegas nightclub)
US median home value, 2005-2009: $185,400, or 0.0185 Kardashians
Amount Kris Humphries lost by investing in a hedge fund that did not exist: $100,000, or 0.01 Kardashian
Currency used by Star Trek alien race the Cardassians: the lek
Actual currency used by the country of Albania: the lek
Cost of the Kardashian wedding in leks: 1,008,728,203.49
Average yearly salary in Albania, 2010: $3,984, or 0.0004 Kardashians
Number of Keeping Up With the Kardashians stars who are currently unmarried: four
Based on current trends, year in which media will be completely dominated by Kardashian marriages and divorces: 2021
Date of end of world, based on above: 2021
Cost of the Kardashian wedding: $10 million, henceforth referred to as 1 Kardashian
Amount Kim and Kris made on their wedding, through various media partnerships: $18 million, or 1.8 Kardashians
Cost of the Khloe Kardashian/Lamar Odom wedding: $1 million, or 0.1 Kardashian (sorry Khloe)
Cost per day of the Kardashian/Humphries marriage, according to TMZ: $138,888 (this is just wedding costs — who knows how much they were spending on rent, butt-exfoliants, and other necessaries)
Average cost of first three months of marriage counseling: $1200
Odds that the Kardashian/Humphries marriage would end before the NBA season started, as given by BetOnLine.com: slightly better than 50/50
GDP of the island nation of Niue: $10 million, or 1 Kardashian
Cost of Kim's wedding earrings: $5 million
Cost of cubic zirconia replicas of Kim's earrings, available at Eve's Addiction: $48
Amount People reportedly paid for exclusive wedding photos: $2.5 million
Current cost of issue of People containing wedding photos, on eBay: $5.99, or 5.99 × 10-7 Kardashians
Cost of Kim's wedding headpiece, which kind of looks like the one the princess wore in The Neverending Story: $2.5 million
Total domestic gross of The Neverending Story: $20 million, or 2 Kardashians
US national debt, in Kardashians: 1,493,957.56
US median household income, as of 2009: $50,221, or 0.005 Kardashians (this is also the amount Kim was paid to have a bachelorette party at a Vegas nightclub)
US median home value, 2005-2009: $185,400, or 0.0185 Kardashians
Amount Kris Humphries lost by investing in a hedge fund that did not exist: $100,000, or 0.01 Kardashian
Currency used by Star Trek alien race the Cardassians: the lek
Actual currency used by the country of Albania: the lek
Cost of the Kardashian wedding in leks: 1,008,728,203.49
Average yearly salary in Albania, 2010: $3,984, or 0.0004 Kardashians
Number of Keeping Up With the Kardashians stars who are currently unmarried: four
Based on current trends, year in which media will be completely dominated by Kardashian marriages and divorces: 2021
Date of end of world, based on above: 2021
