Tamara Ecclestone’s wedding is set to break all records for lavishness with royal guests, private jets and rumoured performances by Sir Elton John and Lionel Richie.
Details have emerged of the three-day party in the French Riviera which the daughter of Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone is planning for her marriage to former stockbroker Jay Rutland.
The celebrations are believed to be starting with an engagement party on Sunday, with 150 of the couple’s closest friends, before the wedding at a five-star hotel early next week. Miss Ecclestone, 28, has reportedly booked out all 73 rooms at the Grand Hotel Du Cap Ferrat, near Nice, at a cost of £600,000. According to the Daily Mail, she is thought to have offered Sir Elton £1 million plus expenses to perform with Richie and DJ Calvin Harris.
Guests are said to include Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, their mother Sarah Ferguson and American socialite Paris Hilton.
Many are believed to be flying in by private jet from Farnborough Airport in Hampshire on Sunday. Miss Ecclestone, whose father is said to be worth £2.5 billion, was seen going to a dress fitting at Vera Wang in New York in April. Her sister Petra, 24, wore an £80,000 dress by the designer for her £12 million wedding in Italy in 2011.
Miss Ecclestone split with former fiancé Omar Khyami last June after a sex tape of the businessman and another woman was sent to her father. In January, she met Mr Rutland, 31 — who lost his job with Deutsche Bank after he allegedly sold cocaine to an undercover reporter in 2002. She has said: “Petra’s wedding was the best I’ve ever been to. I’d like to have one abroad like hers. I wouldn’t know what to do to make it as glamorous! It’ll have to be really bling.”
