The Most Jaw-Dropping Celebrity Wedding Jewelry of All Time

When it comes to celebrity weddings, reams have been written about the stonking, surprisingly minimal, or endlessly evolving engagement rings of the A-list: the two Cartier bands Prince Rainier III of Monaco gave to Grace Kelly; the 16 different rocks Victoria Beckham has received since David first presented her with a marquise-cut diamond in 1998; Taylor Swift’s old-mine cut stone, fuelling an interest in antique diamonds once crafted to twinkle in candlelight; and Dua Lipa’s modern, chunky bezel-set band, designed by Milan brand EERA, which led her to tell to British Vogue, “I’m obsessed with it. It’s so me.”

But what of the additional jewels celebrities have chosen to wear when they said “I do”? One of them—a hefty tiara from 1994, adorned with 2,000 Swarovski crystals—saw a certain French-Canadian singer end up in hospital with a lump the size of an egg on her forehead, spending the first three weeks of married life on a strong course of antibiotics. From priceless Bulgari heirlooms to Brat-inspired bling, read on for the best celebrity wedding jewelry of all time.

Celine Dion in her injury-inducing tiara in 1994.

When Celine Dion married René Angélil in 1994, a bouffant bridal gown, bejeweled bell sleeves and a shimmering corset simply weren’t enough. She accessorized with an ornate tiara adorned with 2,000 Swarovski crystals for her televised ceremony, which was sewn into her hair. The only problem? Dion had rehearsed wearing the design in a wooden-floored ballroom, not on the carpeted aisle of Montreal’s Notre-Dame Basilica. “I had an immediate facelift. I thought, ‘Am I going to make it to my future husband?’” Dion recalled in Vogue’s Life in Looks video series. The following day, the singer woke up with a huge lump in the centre of her forehead that left her cross-eyed, requiring hospital treatment and a strong course of antibiotics.

To announce their engagement in 1998, Posh and Becks were photographed wearing matching yellow-gold Rolex Yacht-Masters, with Victoria sporting a marquise-cut diamond engagement ring on her French-tipped left hand, while David wore a chunky pavé diamond band. Rumour has it that Victoria has amassed 16 different engagement rings since their marriage, including a pavé-halo oval pink diamond she received for her 30th birthday, which was reportedly worth more than $1 million at the time.

For the big day in 1999 at Luttrellstown Castle, near Dublin, Posh opted for a champagne-hued Vera Wang gown with a 20-foot train, accessorized with a coronet-style tiara loaned by Irish designer Slim Barrett. Crafted in yellow gold and set with drop diamonds, it was the perfect complement to the infamous gold-and-purple velvet thrones the couple sat on after the ceremony. In 2002, the tiara was featured in the 100 Tiaras: Past and Present exhibition at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum. Barrett later consigned it to auction at Bonhams in 2013, where, surprisingly, it failed to meet its reserve price after bidding stalled at £14,000.

Grace Kelly wore the Bains de Mer Tiara, a ruby and diamond design by Cartier, to a pre-wedding gala, before her marriage to Prince Rainier III of Monaco.

More than 30 million people around the world watched Grace Kelly wed Prince Rainier III of Monaco on 19 April, 1956, in a fairytale ceremony at Monaco’s Saint Nicholas Cathedral. Kelly’s very own Prince Charming presented the Hollywood icon with not one, but two engagement rings. The first: an eternity band-style ring crafted from alternating rubies and diamonds, a nod to the colors of Monaco’s flag, reportedly designed by Cartier. The second: a ring centred on a jaw-dropping 10.48-carat emerald-cut diamond, also by the Place Vendôme jeweler.

For the public ceremony itself, Kelly eschewed the royal tradition of wearing a tiara, choosing instead a veiled Juliet cap made using antique Brussels lace, embroidered with blooms and pearls. But the night before provided a moment for a dazzling diadem. After Kelly and Rainier’s day-before civil ceremony, held in the Throne Room at the Palais Princier, the future princess wore a ruby-and-diamond tiara by Cartier to a pre-wedding gala at the Opéra Garnier, gifted to her by Société des Bains de Mer, a Monegasque tourism company. She paired the piece with a Lanvin gown and a host of other jewels: a Van Cleef & Arpels diamond bracelet from the National Council of Monaco, and a three-strand diamond necklace from her new husband.

Who else but Charli xcx would (could?) wear multi-million-dollar bling with a black push-up bra to their own wedding? In true Brat style, the singer swapped the sheer chiffon drapery of her Daniel Frankel bridal gown for very little at all at her wedding after-party in the small Sicilian village of Scopello. Dancing the night away alongside guests including Troye Sivan, Amelia Dimoldenberg, Devon Lee Carlson, Shygirl, Matty Healy, and Gabbriette, she opted for sexy lingerie and a Riviera-style diamond necklace centred on a jaw-dropping cushion-cut diamond pendant, reportedly worth $25 million.

Lipa wore a high jewelry Serpenti necklace by Bulgari at her pre-wedding drinks in Sicily, crafted in 18-carat pink gold, onyx, pear tanzanite and pavé-set diamonds.

At her London wedding at Old Marylebone Town Hall in May 2026, Dua Lipa said “I do” to one of the most recognisable jewelry motifs of all time. She complemented the gold hardware of her Bianca Jagger-inspired Schiaparelli Haute Couture skirt suit with a Bulgari High Jewelry necklace that coiled around her neck, culminating in the pink-gold-and-diamond-swathed head of a snake. (Elizabeth Taylor was also a fan of the Serpenti design, first introduced by the Roman house in 1948, which became a seductive symbol of her affair with Richard Burton on the set of Cleopatra.) A week later in Sicily, at her night-before welcome drinks in Piazza Croce dei Vespri, Lipa again looked to the writhing motif—pairing her fringed leather Bottega Veneta party dress with a chunky Serpenti necklace featuring a pear-cut tanzanite centre stone, while not one but two snake-head watches coiled around her wrist with colored gemstones.

For her first wedding to Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor wore an emerald Bulgari brooch he had given her as an engagement gift.

Richard Burton once said of jewelry obsessive Elizabeth Taylor, “The only word she knows in Italian is Bulgari.” After falling in love on the set of Cleopatra in Rome in 1962, while both were married to other people, the passion-fuelled pair spent significant time ensconced inside the Roman jeweler’s Via Condotti VIP Room. For her first wedding to Burton, in Montreal in 1964 (the pair would marry for a second time in Botswana in 1975), Taylor wore the emerald-and-diamond Bulgari brooch Burton had given her as an engagement present, pinning it to a sunflower-yellow dress designed by Cleopatra costume designer Irene Sharaff. Taylor wore the brooch again on several notable occasions. It was pinned to an off-the-shoulder dress in 1963’s The VIPs, before being transformed into a pendant on an even more extravagant emerald-and-diamond necklace, which she wore to accept her Oscar for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 1967.

For the Christian ceremony at her 2018 wedding to Nick Jonas, Priyanka Chopra wore Chopard diamonds.

When Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas married in 2018, they celebrated with multiple ceremonies at Umaid Bhawan Palace in Jodhpur, both Christian and Hindu, to formalise their union. For the Western ceremony, Chopra wore a custom Ralph Lauren gown encrusted with more than two million mother-of-pearl sequins, complete with a 25-foot train so enormous it had to be carried by five people. Equally dramatic, she completed the look with oodles of Chopard diamonds. Later, for the Hindu ceremony, Chopra changed into a bead-encrusted lehenga by renowned Indian couturier Sabyasachi, featuring hand-cut organza flowers and intricate embroidery that took nearly 4,000 hours to craft. She finished the look with layers of necklaces and bracelets set with diamonds, pearls and emeralds.