There are similarly important unions in Nigeria, where the only surviving son of President Muhammadu Buhari, Yusuf, married Zarah Ado Bayero, the niece of the Emir of Kano, a prominent Islamic leader. Every five-star hotel in Kano state was booked out by the Nigerian elite and West African dignitaries who filled the airport runways with private jets. In a story reminiscent of Cambridge, the couple met at university – albeit in Surrey, not St Andrews – and their wedding was attended by thousands at the palace of the Emir of Bichi.
Make it a jet set
Pandemic travel restrictions are not enough to deter the jet set from jet setting, it turns out. The fashion heiress and deputy vice-president of Christie’s, Paola Fendi, married her fiancé Aram Ahmed in Ibiza in June in front of 250 guests from the Italian aristocracy and the international social scene. The bride wore Valentino for the ceremony, not Fendi.