PINK stretch Hummer - check. Champagne flutes with Playboy insignia and ribbons - check. Plunging ballerina-style wedding dress with detachable train - check. Pyrotechnics for reception entrance - check.
It may sound like the shopping list for a party at Hugh Hefner’s place, but they are the essentials for a suburban Sydney wedding so flamboyant it has gone viral on the internet.
Pictures of Kosta and Yanna Elsefes’ big day have been circulating by email with some unflattering commentary about the couple’s nuptial tastes, The Sunday Telegraph reports.
But it doesn’t bother Yanna, who said she had wanted a wedding that reflected her interests.
Her choices included three stretch Hummers, a red carpet off the street and down the aisle, hot pink and black wedding cake, and a $9000 wedding dress inspired by the Guns N’ Roses ballad November Rain.
On the side were seven bridesmaids, dressed in low-cut black cocktail dresses; seven groomsmen, in black overcoats and pink suspenders and a seafood spread for 220 people. The cost: $70,000.
“Everyone that walked in said, ‘Yep, this is Yanna!”’ the 25-year-old said.
“I’ve seen a few comments with people saying things like ’slapper’ and whatever but, you know, it was my wedding. That’s how I wanted it and I loved it.”
One of the main themes was wrestling. The self-professed wrestling fan organised twin pyrotechnic blasts for the newlyweds’ arrival at the reception at Dockside, Darling Harbour.
“We love WWE - I’m a massive fan - so we had the bridal party walk in to different wrestling themes like (wrestlers) The Big Show and Batista,” Yanna said.
The Kogarah couple spared no expense.
“I was booking the Hummers and then we decided we needed three,” she said. “I called the guy and he told me there was a hot pink one but it was in Melbourne so we paid $5000 to have it shipped to Sydney.”
And that dress with its detachable train for when the dance floor beckoned?
“It was inspired by November Rain,” Yanna said. “I saw (the video clip) when I was little and I always said, ‘That’s the dress I’m having for my wedding.”’