Photos: Folorunsho Alakija’s Son’s Wedding Listed As One Of The World’s Most Expensive Weddings

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The wedding between Africa’s richest businesswoman, Folorunsho Alakija’s son, Folarin and his woman, Naza which held over the weekend has made it to international scene as one of the world’s most lavish weddings.

The event which held over the weekend at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire has been rated by international news platform, DailyMail to as possibly the Most Lavish wedding ever.

According to the report, the richest black woman in Africa and one of the richest black women in the world spared no expense during her son’s wedding to the Iranian beauty, Nazanin Jafarian Ghaissarifa.

The wedding reportedly had a million roses which were done by Jeff Leatham who commands up to £250,000 (N114million) for flowers and has been nudged to have worked with the likes of Madonna, Oprah and Tina Turner. Jeff also did the flowers for the Eva Longoria and Tony Parker’s wedding.

The report further revealed that the family may have spent as much as £33,000 (N15million) on the Woodstock wedding venue, an ancestral home of Sir Winston Churchill.

The cake for the event was also created by Elizabeth’s Cake Emporium with hundreds of roses and ornate doves as adornment and the eight tier wedding cake is estimated to be worth as much as £2,400 (N1.1million).

Guests were also serenaded with a surprise performance from Robin Thicke, a performance reported to cost about £150,000(N68.2million).

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