In the past we've offered some green wedding planning tips on Ecollo. Apparently British socialite Coleen McLoughlin and her soccer star fiancé Wayne Rooney (who plays for Manchester United if you care) didn't read our advice, or any other eco-friendly wedding suggestions for that matter. Truth be told I couldn't have told you who either of these people were a week ago, but they appear to practically be royalty in the UK and several daily newspapers have covered their nuptials extensively. Normally a wedding wouldn't warrant this kind of scrutiny or any kind of mention on Ecollo, but the extravagance of their celebration has made headlines - and it's no wonder. Get a load of some of these details:

- Rather than getting married at home in England, the couple held their wedding at a villa on the Italian Riviera.

- A yacht worth £40 million was hired for a pre-wedding reception at the cost of £300,000. The yacht comes complete with a jacuzzi and its own helicopter pad.

- The wedding party hired five (FIVE!) private jets to take them to Nice, France, where they then sailed to Portofino.

- A Catholic priest from Liverpool was flown out to perform a blessing on the couple.

- A midnight fireworks display was put on to the tune of £50,000. Not only that, the bride's favorite band was flown in to perform for a reported cost of £400,000.

- The bride wore three different dresses over the course of the day. If that wasn't enough, she also set up an account at a store and spent £25,000 on new outfits for her friends to wear to the wedding. It's highly doubtful any of the dresses were secondhand.

- For their honeymoon, the couple was jetting off to a private island owned by Virgin head honcho Sir Richard Branson.

Whew! All that for the low, low price of £5 million. The cost to the environment however isn't even quantifiable. The rich-and-famous are known for over-the-top wedding festivities, but surely the grandiose excess of this wedding could have been held closer to home without the need to fly half of England to Italy to be there.

In other news, Al Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio read about this event and had simultaneous coronaries.

» Daily Mail