14 DAY TRIAL // The first unofficial details on Kim Kardashian’s Italian wedding to rapper Kanye West painted the ceremony as this type of fairy-tale event that few women could say they would not want on their big day. A new insider account says it was just the opposite of that, descending into farce long before guests arrived.
Page Six has an eyewitness vouching that the wedding was in very bad taste, absolutely classless and, last but not least, expensive to the point of being a waste. The whole piece reads like a satire, but NY Post editor Michelle Gotthelf confirms on Twitter that the story is true, this is no joke.
Kim and Kanye tied the knot at a castle in Florence, Italy, where the reception was also held, after a weekend full of pre-wedding celebrations in Paris. Although many of the A-list celebrities they had invited to the wedding didn’t show up, Kim and Kanye spared no expense in making it a night to remember.
They managed to do that, but not for the reason they imagined.
For starters, for the wedding (ceremony and reception), they chose a part of the castle where staff could only bring various items by crane. This included an oversize golden box (49 feet / 15 meters tall, says the report) that contained the bathrooms, which came to be referred to by guests as the Golden Toilet Tower.
That they had it installed wasn’t the worst thing: having it placed right before the bar, in very close proximity to the dinner table was. Speaking of the table, Kim and Kanye had it carved out of marble, with each name of guests inscribed in stone, to help with the seating. Hilarity ensued when guests found their names misspelled, Page Six writes.
Also from marble were 30 nude statues made of black Carrera. Only 10 had actually made it to the location, because 10 were damaged in the early stages of production while another 10 broke on the way there. Of these remaining 10, 4 were headless and a furious Kanye had them moved from the dinner table closer to the reception area, so, by the end, they were actually guarding the Golden Toilet Tower.
Kanye gave the staff hell, says the tipster. After 4 days during which time the lights were installed above the area designated for dancing, the rapper came to the venue a few hours before the big event and decided that they only needed one light that would shine on him and his newly minted Mrs. Kanye West.
“I’m in the center of this party, and I’m the only one people need to see. The rest of these people don’t need lights on them,” he told the staff, as he instructed them to remove all “unnecessary” lights.
Also then, he decided that the bar before the Toilet Tower looked too… mundane, so he took a saw to it and cut it in half with his own two, very able hands. His conclusion was that “now… it’s art!,” which is totally something that Kanye would say, if you know anything about him.
At the party, after dancing 4 songs with Kim all alone, while John Legend played a marble piano, Kanye held a 45-minute speech… in honor of himself. At the rehearsal dinner held at Versailles the day before, he kept it shorter, taking the time to defend the Kardashians by declaring them the most extraordinary people of our times. He was probably feeling left out by the wedding, so he made the toast all about himself.
On her part, Kim is said to have thrown a very public fit when she walked into a light and it shone on her crotch, which she found in very bad taste. Obviously, she blamed the staff for it.
“The most prominent wedding gift was a giant bottle of Chianti, which had been dipped in gold (probably great for the flavor of the wine), the cork replaced with a diamond, a gift from Jay Z (a no-show),” Page Six also writes.
You can’t buy class, you know what they say.