The first official wedding photos of reality star Kim Kardashian’s high profile marriage with new groom Kris Humphries has graced the cover of the magazine People on August 24 issue in New York and Los Angeles & on August 26 issue in rest of the U.S. People acquired the exclusive right to publish the wedding photos, reportedly for a whopping $ 1.5 million.
However, an informed source familiar with the development termed it ridiculous. It said that it was nowhere near $ 1 million. People spent upwards of $ 5, 00,000 for the photos but not near $ 1 million. Nevertheless, People out bided all other tabloid & caught the opportunity to spread the glitz & glamour of the wedding to the mere mortals of the world.
However, another source pointed out that it was obvious that Kim’s wedding photos would be in People because she had great relationship with the magazine.
Moreover, it is one of the most esteemed & credible U.S. magazines besides having enough money to spend on those photos along with millions of more readers than most of the other celebrity tabloids.
These exclusive fairytale wedding photos of Kim Karashian pushed up the sale and People’s subscription way past it’s average of 1.3 millions. Interestingly People hiked up it’s price by $ 1.00 for the special issue which might help the magazine to easily make back the fortune & some more, it spent to get the exclusive pictures. After the exclusive People’s photos, latter a host of new magazine on celebrity life & life style also extensively reported the wedding.
Celebrity gossip portal on the web like xposed magazine news & xposed magazine also reported the wedding in it’s usual spicy way. However, the veracity of facts they included in their story is obviously questionable. As per the HGTV magazine one of the interesting facts of this high profile marriage is that, with the amount spent on the wedding one could easily buy some of the luxurious waterfront villas featured on it. This celebrity wedding was also covered in other life style & celebrity magazines like Garage magazine.
However, leading U.S. journal Time magazine preferred to show not much interest in the celebrity wedding. Moreover, some specialty life style magazine also did not show much interest in some wedding related news & photos of the reality star, such as her jet skiing news & photos in Minnesota where she spent some quality times with her hubby's family and friends just before the wedding. However, that scoop virtually went unreported in prominent Ski magazines.
