But what might never be known is the precise cost of the whole affair, with estimates ranging from $16 million to $64 million and security accounting for the bulk of it.
To cover some of the Lange Cocktailjurken expenses, the Middleton family is reportedly contributing six figures for specific costs of the wedding, according to Vanity Fair, which might include paying for hotel rooms for family members at the luxurious Goring Hotel.
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The cost for a standard double room there is about $550 a night, although it's rumored that Middleton spent her last Cocktailjurken 2013 night as a single woman in a suite, which would be considerably more expensive.
The Middletons are also paying for her reported three dresses.
The two receptions will cost about $600,000, including $80,000 for two wedding cakes: a traditional white, buttercream or fruit cake, and a groom's cake (for which Prince William reportedly requested a split voor Prom Dresses chocolate cookie cake), Eisinger estimates.
"When you start breaking that down per head, it comes to a lot," Eisinger said. "If the two cakes are divided by 600 guests, that's $133 a slice."
Still, the wedding is by no means "opulent," said Dickie Arbiter, former spokesman for Buckingham Palace. This will be the fifth royal wedding he has attended.
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