I am sorry but it is physically impossible to throw a $600 million wedding. The Daily Mail screwed something up, I want to sow class discontent more than anyone but this figure is obviously absurd lol
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Adam, isn't the most important thing is that Bezos *tried*? He did not fail to have a $600m wedding, he just found one more way to not have one. Give him time (and many more wives).
I’m going to be judgmental. I remember when he was working out of his garage to start his company with his first wife’s unwavering support. He’s now turned into another greedy terrible person. Does anyone really need to be that ostentatious? It would make more of an impact if he donated that money.
A price tag for services has no theoretical limit. No reasonable person would pay it but you could hypothetically pay a DJ or a wedding planner or whoever $599 million
Why is it that the more money someone has, the less human they look?
Is there some rule that says once you have a billion dollars you have to start replacing your flesh and blood body parts with shiny, barely expressive plastic in the style of cinematic grey aliens?
#jeffbezos Trumps BFF who trying to "negotiate" for defense contracts for Blue Origin who just so happens to own https://Amazon.com and has been union busting and arresting people for protesting and trying to fight antitrust so he can continue to manipulate markets globally... #BoycottAmazon
Yeah the math is all screwed up here, you especially cannot get to this figure if you’re not, like, flying the whole operation to New Zealand or something. For a domestic wedding it’s off by a whole order of magnitude.
So completely true story but back in the 90s I played for a billionaires birthday party. In Georgetown, rented out an entire 2 levels of a Hilton or Hyatt or something. I was playing w/ Temptations (or 4 Tops was same horn section for both. Anyways, Kool and the gang were also playing there
And honestly not even sure we were the headline acts. You can spend a LOT on a wedding if you want. But simple math would be $100k a person for 6k people, just for scale.
it may be an outrageously fake figure, but Bezos still makes more than $600M in a single month. in other words, it would be like an average American spending less than $5,000 on their wedding
As an author selling on amazon I know that my hard work, dedication, lack of family time, financial and other anxieties have contributed to this party.
I’ll keep working hard, Jeff. Don’t you worry.
And just because cynicism alone can’t feed my soul, fuck you, Jeff
I agree it is absurd unless they just pay everyone who comes $1m in cash and gifts because they have no friends. Either way a wealth tax is needed in the United States as there are many public goods that would be better served than this disgusting profligate vanity
Not sure what it is about that guy, but every—and I use this term without exaggeration—EVERY picture of him/his life looks dreadfully unappealing. Like…all that money and he’s still a stingy asshole who dresses like he’s on spring break from “working” at his dad’s car dealership.
It’s possible. Watch wedding TikTok. There is one, where this American family rented out Versailles, flew everyone out, had parties each day. A Chinese couple gave everyone jewelry, flew them out, paid for rooms, and gave them cash the day of the wedding. It’s very possible. Weird but possible
I’m serious. Watch wedding TikTok. Who knows what they are doing. Everyone could have Prime memberships forever, some diamonds, the best truffles and caviar, Beyoncé or Taylor, great winter ski gear, flown private, driven private. It adds up
And it’s more than possible to spend $100 million on florals - especially if you’re looking at out of season flowers or ones that basically last a day. Nvm the small army of people needed to set it up
$600m is embarrassing. What is he, broke? If he was actually rich, he would pay me $1b to deliver a legit ceremony rather than the pauper's event he has planned.
Nah this tracks, when you have functionally infinite funds you stop caring about costs and it becomes so much easier to get overcharged bc who cares? Numbers mean nothing! Fretting over numbers is for peasants!
That extra money is likely mostly sudden "administrative fees" or some similar bunk
What I don’t get is the appeal of catfish lips. This woman and that Kim lady that Jr just threw over - what is the appeal of looking surgically-made freakish?
Aspen has zero surplus capacity of any kind. Every single cocktail server, designer, carpenter, electrician, roadie, what have you will need to be flown in and provided room and board, against an Aspen that's already in season. Just getting people there is really expensive
If you pay for all of the guests' travel, food and lodging and you're inviting 20,000 people...maybe? I had a wedding for less than 50 people and it was nearly 5 figures. And that was me enlisting friends who were professionals at baking, flowers and photography. Weddings are INSANELY expensive.
The insanity is that it seems like something one of these oligarchs would do. I mean, this dude has a yacht so big it needs a smaller yacht to follow it just in case. The smaller yacht is 200ft long
There’s been a lot of debate so I’ll submit potential agenda items that get us over the $600 million mark
(1) ceremony literally in low orbit
(2) Most Dangerous Game with McKinsey consultants (morally good)
(3) insurance for Eyes Wide Shut adjacent activity
The biggest problem would be getting the dollar bills there because 500,000 $100 bills would weigh about 5.5 tons. That's almost 10,000 pounds, the weight of four small cars.
Like I don’t think he could get over $100 million for a single day party even if his life depended on it. Even if the centerpiece of the party was literally burning piles of cash I don’t think they could print $100s that fast or enough exist in circulation
I believe in my industry's power to spend this man's money. I bet a good portion goes to lex luthor things like sealing the town in a dome for a week so poors can't get in (except to serve).
One of my friends married into a very wealthy Texas family. The wedding was in Aspen and per him cost $3M and was not a small guest list. I can’t imagine how you can get from that price tag to $600M given that it was probably the fanciest event I will ever attend in my otherwise Midwestern life.
If the number was $60M I’d believe it. Not that it is an amount of money he can even feel, I have to assume they are getting absolutely ripped off by their vendors.
That said I have faith the demon Bezos will try to get close. And maybe a handful of laid off Washington Post reporters can use their free time to pin down the actual number
Is there a rule that the richer you are, the tackier you become? I’m for eating the rich, but they look full of microplastics and like they’ll leave an aftertaste of spray tan. She looks like if you stick a pin in her, she’ll fly away like a balloon.
Looks like Bezos needs DOGE’s Ramamusky either to make the wedding cost only $6,000 or else to cancel the wedding altogether because it is inefficient and unnecessary.
Criminals.. Most rich people today are parasites. Parasites created by parasite intressts and parasite bankers. But then again most of them are brainwashed to be consumers rather than solve any issues just like most useless pyramidscam worshippers.
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And the value of those gifts probably would create the Price is Right problem of being taxable, such that everyone should want cash.
And haptics. Very, special, haptics.
https://youtu.be/mTADcRFsaAk
This is NOTHING to his bank account. Just the cost of providing private jets, private cars, the insane gifts the guests will receive.
No it’s real.
This only prooves this is not a public sector-exclusive problem and that privatization will solve nothing.
Is there some rule that says once you have a billion dollars you have to start replacing your flesh and blood body parts with shiny, barely expressive plastic in the style of cinematic grey aliens?
I’ll keep working hard, Jeff. Don’t you worry.
And just because cynicism alone can’t feed my soul, fuck you, Jeff
https://bsky.app/profile/matthewjohnson.bsky.social/post/3ldvoyrl7i22h
Food 6000$
DJ 1500$
Venue 10000$
Decorations 8000$
5 F35B fighter jets: 545,000,000$
That extra money is likely mostly sudden "administrative fees" or some similar bunk
(1) ceremony literally in low orbit
(2) Most Dangerous Game with McKinsey consultants (morally good)
(3) insurance for Eyes Wide Shut adjacent activity
Though dangerous game is another good bet
You would need 500 of those stacks to make $500,000,000.
You could do a roughly 23x23 square to get 523 stacks. It would be five feet wide and almost 12 feet long.
So 5 feet wide, 12 feet long, 3.5 feet high.
Spend $10M on the ceremony, $90M on the reception, and then blow up a $500M yacht as the grand finale. Easy.
Seriously, is she a real person made of flesh, or did Jeff have her custom-made in a factory?
The weapons-grade gold-digger that huge dork-ass horny mark Bezos is getting duped by: