MARKLE’S WEDDING DRESS TO COST A COOL $700,000
TALK about expensive taste. Meghan Markle’s wedding dress will cost more than $A700,000, according to reports, as the budget for her royal wedding to Prince Harry blows out.
That is said to be more than $A250,000 more than the cost of the dress the Duchess of Cambridge wore when she married Prince William.
Meghan, 36, will marry Harry, 33, on May 19 in what is being dubbed Britain’s society wedding of the year.
The budget for the big day has already doubled, according to media reports, and a significant chunk of that is to bankroll Markle’s gown, according to Look.
“The wedding dress has been the biggest expense, and the budget has now doubled from what it originally was,” a source told the publication.
The former Suits star is said to be paying for the honeymoon, as her wedding gift to Harry, with the total cost reportedly more than $A200,000.
But just who is designing Markle’s wedding dress is still a closely guarded secret.
British fashion house Alexander McQueen is said to be the frontrunner, and made the dress the Duchess of Cambridge wore to marry Prince William in 2011.
Other designers who have been on the royal wedding short-list include Ralph and Russo, Erdem and Roland Mouret.
“Mmmmm, I don’t want to say. No comment,” Mouret is reported to have said.