Marie Claire UK Marie Claire UK
  • Fashion Fashion
      • Fashion
        • View all Fashion
        • Fashion Trends
        • Shopping
        • Watches and Jewellery
        • Fashion News
  • Beauty Beauty
      • Beauty
        • View all Beauty
        • Fragrance
        • Hair
        • Make Up
        • Skincare
        • Nails
        • Marie Claire Beauty Awards
  • Health Health
      • Health
        • View all Health
        • Fitness
        • Nutrition
        • Female Health
        • Wellbeing
  • Life Life
      • Life
        • View all Life
        • Opinions
        • Travel
        • Sustainability
        • Weddings
        • Money & Work
        • Competitions
  • Culture Culture
      • Culture
        • View all Culture
        • TV and Film
        • Celebrity News
        • Books
        • Royal News
  • Vouchers Vouchers
      • Clothing
        • View all Vouchers
        • Mint Velvet
        • Karen Millen
        • H&M
        • nobody's child
        • ASOS
        • ARKET
        • MANGO
      • Designer Clothing
        • View all Vouchers
        • Reiss
        • THE OUTNET
        • SSENSE
        • Mytheresa
        • Liberty London
        • Selfridges
        • Farfetch
      • Accessories
        • View all Vouchers
        • AllSaints
        • Aspinal of London
        • Charles & Keith
        • River Island
        • FitFlop
        • Kate Spade
        • Vagabond
      • Jewellery
        • View all Vouchers
        • Pandora
        • Abbott Lyon
        • Goldsmiths
        • Beaverbrooks
        • Astrid & Miyu
        • Swarovski
        • Angara Jewellery
      • Beauty
        • View all Vouchers
        • Sephora
        • Cult Beauty
        • Space NK
        • Dyson
        • Clarins
        • Look Fantastic
        • Clinique
      • Activewear
        • View all Vouchers
        • Lululemon
        • Gymshark
        • Sweaty Betty
        • Nike
        • adidas
        • New Balance
        • Helly Hansen
  • NEWSLETTER Signup to our newsletter
  • logoCreated with Sketch.
    Marie Claire Newsletter

    Celebrity news, beauty, fashion advice, and fascinating features, delivered straight to your inbox!


    By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over.

    You are now subscribed

    Your newsletter sign-up was successful


    An account already exists for this email address, please log in.
    Trending
    • Women in Sport 2026
    • Marie Claire Masters
    • Spring Summer 2026
    • Nail Trends 2026
    • Best Investment Bags
    • Best Perfumes
    • Digital Issues
    • Women Who Win
    1. Style

    This is how much Christine's wedding dress on Selling Sunset cost

    Penny Goldstone's avatar
    By Penny Goldstone
    Published 17 August 2020 In News

    When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

    (Image credit: Netflix)
    • Facebook
    • X
    • Pinterest
    Share this article
    Join the conversation
    Follow us
    Add us as a preferred source on Google
    Subscribe to our newsletter

    No one can deny the magical allure of Netflix's Selling Sunset, whether you're into lavish $75m LA mansions (I mean, who needs 10 bathrooms for 7 bedrooms?), or good ol' fashion drama (who doesn't love a bust up at a wedding?). If you loved the first two seasons, then you've probably already binge watched and loved season three, because it was bigger and bolder.

    If you haven't yet, then do stop reading now, as it contains one big spoiler... though to be fair you already knew Christine was engaged, as she came back after season 1, having bagged herself a massive sparkler and millionaire fiancé, 41-year-old Christian Richard, a retired software engineer.

    Whether she would go through with it or not was another matter, but that she did, and in lavish style of course. Christine is never one to do things the conventional way (as you will know from her 'botox and burgers' listing party), and her wedding was no exception.

    Who needs a traditional white wedding dress when you can have a black gothic princess one to go with your winter wonderland themed wedding? The 31-year-old picked a glittering black ballgown, as well as a slinkier number for the wedding reception.

    The bride gave herself a challenge, because she wanted everything done in two months, which is nigh on impossible in the wedding world. Her event planner Lisa Lafferty, who also was in charge of her engagement party, told Oprah magazine that designers such as Vera Wang said that creating a whole dress from scratch was unimaginable.

    You may like
    • Wedding planning I Love My Fiancé, but I Resent the Emotional Labour of Planning Our Wedding
    • Cece Jewellery A Day in the Life of Cece Fein-Hughes, the Jewellery Designer Loved by Celebrities
    • Wardrobe NYC H&M The Wardrobe.NYC H&M Collaboration Has Arrived—I'd Recommend These 12 Pieces for Your Capsule Work Wardrobe

    Side note: Khloe Kardashian did wear Vera Wang for her wedding to Lamar Odom, just a month after the couple met, however the dress was 'off the rack' meaning it needed minimal alterations.

    Lafferty told the magazine, 'Designers like Vera Wang said, 'That's not going to happen. There's no way you can get this kind of dress made in two month"'.

    Marie Claire Newsletter

    Celebrity news, beauty, fashion advice, and fascinating features, delivered straight to your inbox!

    By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over.

    Christine went on to design her two dresses with the help of Galia Lahav. She tried her main wedding dress on in a classic white colour, but decided it would work best if it was made entirely of black tulle and sequins, while her evening gown was a mermaid style strapless gown in the same fabric. 'She's always stood out. She wanted to be an individual, and not go to the standard white wedding dress,' Lafferty said.

    So how much did both designs cost? Lafferty told Metro.co.uk that the two combined cost around $50,000 (about £38k), which is nothing really, compared to the overall wedding, which she said was estimated to be around $1m ('The budget’s love', Christine told Lafferty, and you can't put a price tag on love, can you?).

    The bleeding wedding cake is said to have cost $15,000 (£11,500), then there was the lavish feast, which included truffles and steak, the drinks, which included smoking black champagne, live swans, fake snow, smoke machines, flowers and everything else in between.

    Penny Goldstone
    Penny Goldstone
    Social Links Navigation
    Contributing Fashion Editor

    Penny Goldstone is the Contributing Fashion Editor at Marie Claire UK. She writes about catwalk trends and the latest high street and Instagram sartorial must-haves. She also helms the Women Who Win franchise.

    She has worked in fashion for over 10 years, contributing to publications such as Cosmopolitan, Red, Good Housekeeping, and Stylist.

    Read more
    Wedding planning
    Relationships I Love My Fiancé, but I Resent the Emotional Labour of Planning Our Wedding
    Cece Jewellery
    Watches and Jewellery A Day in the Life of Cece Fein-Hughes, the Jewellery Designer Loved by Celebrities
     
     
    Wardrobe NYC H&M
    Shopping The Wardrobe.NYC H&M Collaboration Has Arrived—I'd Recommend These 12 Pieces for Your Capsule Work Wardrobe
    Julia Restoin Roitfeld Marie Claire'd Anatomy of A Wardrobe
    Fashion 'I Function Better With Less': Julia Restoin-Roitfeld on Timeless Style, Wardrobe Investments and Borrowing From Her Mother’s Closet
     
     
    Latest in Style
    AW26 Shoe Trends
    Shopping From Heeled Loafers to Square Toes and Lace-Up Courts, Consider This Your Guide to Autumn's Defining Shoe Trends
    Eva Omaghomi
    Fashion After 17 years in the Royal Household, Eva Omaghomi Talks Bringing African Design Talent to Harrods
     
     
    Jodie Comer
    Shopping Jodie Comer Just Announced the Start of Knee-High Boots Season
    Coach Tabby bag
    Fashion Why Coach’s Forever Bags Are the Ultimate Wardrobe Investment
     
     
    Latest in News
    The Beauty Digest: New Products to Know
    Beauty The Beauty Digest: A Foundation With Infinite Shades, Diptyque Does Bodycare, and the Exhibition Every Beauty Lover Should See
    Eva Omaghomi
    Fashion After 17 years in the Royal Household, Eva Omaghomi Talks Bringing African Design Talent to Harrods
     
     
    New Beauty Products: The Beauty Digest
    Beauty The Beauty Digest: Dyson Does Teeth, Fenty Rips Up the Rulebook (Again) and a Surprisingly Fragrant Week for Dogs
    Jodie Comer
    Shopping Jodie Comer Just Announced the Start of Knee-High Boots Season
     
     
    logoCreated with Sketch.
    • Site Archive
    • Contact Future's experts
    • Contact us
    • Terms and conditions
    • Advertise with us
    • Privacy policy
    • Cookies policy
    • About us
    Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google

    Marie Claire UK is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. Visit our corporate site.

    © Future Publishing Limited Quay House, The Ambury, Bath BA1 1UA. All rights reserved. England and Wales company registration number 2008885.