How much would you spend on a wedding if money were no object? For most celebrities it isn't, and the result is wedding costs skyrocketing into the hundreds of thousands and even millions of dollars. Forbes recently compiled a list of the 20 most expensive celebrity weddings, going back as far as 20 years. Whether paying for 50,000 exotic flowers or renting an entire island to escape the paparazzi, celebrities spare no expense when it comes to having exactly what they want. The top 5 spenders, in order, are:

• Liza Minelli and David Gest: $3.5 million
• Paul McCartney and Heather MIlls: $3 million
  
• Elizabeth Hurley and Arun Nayar: $2.5 million
• Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes: $2 million
• Elizabeth Taylor and Larry Fortensky: $2 million

Others on the list of 20 include David and Victoria Beckham, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston, and of course Donald Trump and Melania Knauss.

Sadly, 40% of the couples on the list are now divorced (including obviously Brad and Jennifer above), so feel free to check out this list of the most expensive celebrity divorces -- a few made both lists!

Jennifer Aniston has finally bought a house in a Chicago suburb with her sweetheart, Vince Vaughn. According to the Mirror, the 7.5-acre property features a 9 bedroom, 13 bathroom home, with "a garage that accommodates six cars and a huge double-height, wood-beamed hall where they can entertain their friends." It is in or near the upscale suburb where Vaughn grew up - most likely Lake Forest, Illinois - and the couple hopes to maintain a low profile in the quiet neighborhood. The papers were signed last week and the estate is reported to have cost $11.9 million

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Deidre Hall has sold her Bel-Air home which was listed at just under $8.5 million. The home used to belong to Bob Newhart and was designed to look like an English country home.
--NBA player Slava Medvedenko has bought  newly-built home in Manhattan Beach  for around  $2.5 million and sold his Playa Vista condo for nearly $1.7 million. He was released from the Lakers due to a back injury.
--Screenwriter Tedi Sarafian recently bought a $1.6 million Sunset Strip-area home that once belonged to Bette Davis. He also has owned the West Hollywood apartment she spent her later years in.
--Designer-builder Nicole Sassaman is rehabbing a Beverly Hills house that was built by orchestra conductor Leopold Stokowski and was briefly home to Greta Garbo and later fashion designer Gloria Vanderbilt. The newly updated home which will now have a master bedroom suite with a sundeck and a bathroom with an infinity tub and a steam shower should hit the market in May for just under $8 million.

From the NY Post Gimme Shelter:
--Frederic Fekkai has purchased the Fifth Avenue apartment of billionaire John Kluge  for around $7.4 million.
--Entertainment mogul Edgar Bronfman Jr. has paid $26 million for a 3.4 acre compound in Bridgehampton. It has "minimal water frontage" and if you look out the second story windows you can catch a glimpse of the ocean. Luckily it has more to recommend it including eight bedroom, a media room, wine cellar, pool and a tennis court. He also bought another 1.3-acre piece of land with a smaller house and a pool, for $5 million.
--Donny Deutsch paid $1 million over the asking price for a six-story townhouse on East 78th Street. He was outbid on his  $21 million offer but the owner liked Deutsch's broker better.
--In the Hamptons, East Hampton Point, a compound that includes a restaurant, guest cottages and a marina is for sale for $55 million. The listing is here.

From the NY Times Big Deal:
--Scarlett Johansson picked a duplex in TriBeCa for $1.95 million in January/
--A new condo building, the Caledonia next to the High Line in Chelsea will have  bamboo plank floors, stainless-steel appliances, a fitness club, terraces, a meditation garden and its own entrance to the proposed High Line park.
--Author A.M. Homes who has written short story collections and written for "The L Word" has purchased a three-bedroom house that was listed for $1.3 million  in the Village of East Hampton. She already has a one-bedroom house in the Town of East Hampton.
--Sol Kerzner, a resort and casino developer will buy the  $10.5 million penthouse at the Urban Glass House  for his daughter Beverley.

And in Aniston, Jolie, Pitt News
--Forbes reports that the Wallace Neff Beverly Hills mansion that belonged to Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston is in escrow for $22.5 million.
--The rumor that Angelina Jolie is buying Yves St. Laurent's house on the Normandy Coast is alive and well once again.

A few days after any awards show, I always like to check in with Clothes Off Our Back to see what celebrity cast-offs are up for bid. It's pretty slim pickings from the Oscars thus far but if you have a hankering for Jennifer Aniston's shoes and handbag you can pick them up here. The Lana Marks Cleopatra Clutch that Jennifer Aniston carried to the 78th Annual Academy Awards is being auctioned off to benefit Cure Autism Now, Half the Sky and UNICEF's work in Darfur.

It's a post-divorce discount, the Beverly Hills home once shared by Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston hit the market in October for $28 million. Now, the home is listed at $24.95 million. The Wallace Neff designed French Normandy beauty is a stunner inside. The flash tour has been disabled on the listing website so no more gawking but it is a lovely home. The purchased the house for $13.5 million in 2001 and according to The Insider the pair will split the proceeds although I read elsewhere that Jen got a $29 million Bev HIlls home as part of the divorce.