Top Wedding Planner Reveals How Nigerians Spend Lavishly On Weddings In UK
Top London-based wedding planner, Elizabeth Aisien, has revealed how Nigerian super-rich couples spend lavishly on their weddings, including £100,000 (35 Million Naira) on a designer wedding dress to £150,000 on alcohol.
In an interview with Channel 5 show Eamonn & Ruth: How The Other Half Lives, Elizabeth stated that London has become the favorite destination for Africa’s wealthy elite when they want to get married.
She said: ‘It is not unusual to spend a million. One of the weddings I planned spent £50,000 (17.5 Million Naira) just on flowers. It’s a competition, people want something like “wow, she arrived by plane”. The bride wants to look good and wear the best of everything.’
As a result, she said brides will pay around £100,000 for a bespoke dress by a designer like Vera Wang and £475,000 on diamond jewellery. She added that it is not just the bride who will push the boat out on the gems they wear to accessorise an expensive outfit.
The other women want to make a statement, “I wore this diamond, my diamond is bigger than yours”,’ Elizabeth explained.
She also revealed that the venues of choice for weddings and receptions are up-market London hotels including The Dorcester, The Landmark Hotel and Claridges. She added: ‘Kensington Palace is another favourite for Nigerians now.’
According to the Historic Royal Palaces, prices for weddings at the Palace start from £12,500 (4.3 Million Naira) exclusive of catering and VAT.
Elizabeth said after spending a lot to look her best, a bride will then spend a lot of money wining and dining her guests – all three thousand of them.
She said: ‘They will spend the most money on Champagne as you have two to three thousand guests at a traditional Nigerian wedding and they will get a bottle of Champagne each.’
Source: Daily Mail
Na wa o Na their money sha
Too much of everything is bad. Why not invest for the future? Impressing people that may never ever like you.
God bless you my sister. No; its people who don’t even know they exist.
This is crazy! Compete with who? No wonder the marriages don’t last.
Spending so much for just a few hours Na wa o.Some people can’t even afford a decent meal a day.Investing it even makes more sense
Their money so let them spend it anyhow they like it’s non of my bizness after all money is meant to be spend abi na. Wen we die we will spend it on burial?
Hnnm too much money. Anywayz it’s their money Wetin concern me
Elizabeth Aisien wife to my former boss Owen Aisien. Beautiful woman. Well it’s their money, they can do to it however they wish.
do your one day wedding in luxury to please people, and live ur remaining days of marriage in management
mtcheeew.
Nigerian’s get sense before? only few of them,how can u be extravagant for just a one day party? Imitating the white people,even the whites wont be this extravagant
waste of money
waste of fund when many re hungry and homeless.
This is ridiculous! !!! Ahn! Ahn!
They are called ‘Money miss road’
It’s crazy,..money miss road no be small thing my sister..
That’s why they’ll keep stealing our money. People can’t afford food around here and these thieves spend our oil money on frivolities.
Too much money, d problem is hw to spend it.
The spending aspect is not an issue to me, because you spend according to your means. If you have money, then spend it to please your soul but the part about competing with others is sickening. This tells me that, ppl will do just anything to be seen. Sounds very immature to me. Very stupid way of life.
That Nigerians for you, they are always good at that
what a waste
Too much money