ENTERTAINMENT provided by Jennifer Lopez, Enrique Iglesias and an £18,000 (US$25,000) designer wedding dress is far beyond the reach of most brides, but when the groom’s father is worth billions you can afford to splash out.

    Billionaire’s son Said Gutseriev, 28, married 20-year-old student Khadija Uzhakhova in Moscow in the weekend in a jaw-droppingly lavish affair, rumored to have cost up to US$1 billion.

    Held at the luxury Moscow restaurant and banqueting venue Safisa, which was decked out in wall-to-wall fresh flowers, the wedding set a new bar for extravagance.

    The young bride arrived in a beaded Elie Saab gown, whose wedding dresses range from £5,000 to £18,000.

    Her dress was imported from Paris and reportedly weighed 25 pounds (11.3 kg) because of the huge train and heavy embellishment and the bride needed the assistance of several people to carry her train and help her walk upstairs

    With a tight bodice, long sleeves and a full skirt cascading in folds to the floor, the gown was pure fairy tale — and came with a floor-length veil and bejeweled handbag to match.

    Khadija’s look was completed with a diamond tiara and whopping diamond pendant around her neck.

    Meanwhile, guests traveled to the grand nuptials in a fleet of luxury cars including Rolls Royces which were seen lined up outside the venue ahead of the ceremony.

    The entertainment also did not come cheap, with Jennifer Lopez — who was reported to have been paid US$1 million for singing for Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, the president of Turkemenistan in 2013 — jetting in to give the wealthy crowd an energetic performance in a series of skimpy outfits.

    But providing an unforgettable show was the least of J Lo’s worries as the singer apparently told guests that pronouncing the newlyweds’ names was “the hardest thing I had to do today.”

    The singer, who performed her hits “If You Had My Love,” “Dance Again” and “Get Right” went through several outfit changes including a black tailored suit and a silver spangled leotard.

    The couple’s 600 guests dined on European cuisine and sushi and the wedding cake was a lavish eight tier creation, decorated with elaborate white icing and layers of pink floral garlands and topped with a star and crescent as a show of the couple’s Muslim faith. But the extravagance of the occasion is surely fitting for the son of Kazakh-born Mikhail Gutseriev, a Muslim born in the Caucasus, who is thought to be worth US$6.2 billion. (SD-Agencies)